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The transfer is aimed at ending the city's annual museum subsidy and creating a more regional support base for the 151-year-old institution, said Thomas Wesholski, a veteran banker hired six months ago to steer the museum through the transition.
"It's a big step," Wesholski said Friday. "The goal is to make this a West Michigan museum." The city will continue to own Van Andel Museum Center and its parking ramp, the Voigt House, the Norton Indian Mounds and the 245,000 artifacts in its collections.
Operations will be controlled by the Public Museum Friends Foundation, the museum's long-standing support group. The foundation will lease the facilities for $1 a year for 99 years, according to the proposed contract, which will be considered Tuesday by the City Commission and the semi-autonomous Board of Art and Museum Commissioners.
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