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The quite new museum on Liberty Island (opened in 2019) is surprisingly interesting and well executed. The decade-long campaign to raise money in both France a
by pavlov 4y ago
The quite new museum on Liberty Island (opened in 2019) is surprisingly interesting and well executed.
The decade-long campaign to raise money in both France and US was an impressive feat of crowdfunding. And the sculptor himself had terrific business acumen, selling tickets to tour his workshop and exhibiting full-scale parts of the statue in Paris to large crowds to keep up interest while it was still years away from completion.
- technologia 4y agoIf you get the opportunity, there is a Bartholdi museum in a small town on the French German border called Colmar that was originally his home. It’s interesting the evolution of the artist over the decades leading up to the Statue of Liberty