Posted on 05/02/2014 11:53:13 AM PDT by MichCapCon
I can think of millions of people who would miss the museum, it's one of the top 6 museums in the United States and VERY well attended.
The Detroit Institute of Arts just won a huge millage from the surrounding three counties to raise taxes to support the museum because it's so important, so very important.
The DIA is the first museum in the United States to have a Van Gogh, and now it has several.
It has Bernini’s model for St Peter’s Chair from the St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Picasso, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Degas, Singer Sargent, murals by Diego Rivera, a complete colonial home, incredible Egyptian artifacts, medieval, roman.........I could go on.
Needless to say, the DIA is a bright jewel full of treasures, and this is coming from a person who has an apartment across from the Louvre.
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