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Margaret Downie Banks Attends MIM's Grand Opening
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Margaret Downie Banks, Senior Curator of Musical Instruments, attended the grand opening festivities for the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Phoenix, April 21-24, 2010. The opening represented the culmination of three years of planning and implementation of a project conceived by Bob Ulrich, CEO of Target (retired).
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Also present at the grand opening were (left to right): Gary Sturm (Assistant Chair for Special Projects (Retired), Division of Cultural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC); Cynthia Adams Hoover (Curator Emeritus, Musical Instruments, Division of Cultural History, Smithsonian Institution); Margaret Downie Banks (Senior Curator of Musical Instruments, NMM); J. Kenneth Moore (Director, Division of Musical Instruments, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City); Patricia Grazzini (Associate Director and Chief Operating Officer, Minneapolis Institute of Arts); Eric de Visscher (Director, Musée de la Musique, Paris); and Darcy Kuronen (Pappalardo Curator of Musical Instruments and Chair, Department of Musical Instruments, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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While in Phoenix, Banks also visited with Clint Spell, a graduate student enrolled in USD's M.M. degree program with a concentration in the history of musical instruments. Spell has been employed as a Curatorial Assistant at the MIM since August 2009.
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View of Orientation Gallery at the MIM, featuring oversized reproductions of musical instruments viewable from two levels.
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National Music Museum
The University of South Dakota
414 East Clark Street
Vermillion, SD 57069
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