#msueum

The historic light. Geschichte und Licht.

Anonymous submitted: 

My office is in charge of on the sculpture program at a University campus. One day I was sitting at my desk and our education programmer walks by and says, “Oh! I saw the tree sculpture sitting on a Bobcat lift near the road, I didn’t know it was moving.” 

Well, neither did we.

My collections manager and I freak out and we ran to campus to see the University Grounds Maintenance crew loading a metal sculpture onto flat bed and  tightening it down with straps,  making it bend. When we try to stop them they simply responded with  “It was supposed to be moved two years ago and we told [redacted] ago about it then.” Well,  [redacted] hasn’t worked here in two years, which they know, but they decided they didn’t want to call us because apparently there’s been a turf war between the museum and the grounds team over the sculptures. They refuse to listen to us explaining why this was a huge no-no, and counter by saying that the piece isn’t safe because it’s falling apart (apparently they had been picking up broken off pieces and just throwing them away!!!) In the end, they drive off with our art attached to the trailer bed to the university warehouse, where they just dump it on the ground.

Leaving us standing there with this look on our face.