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Settlement Keeps Brandeis Art Museum Open

A settlement has been reached that will keep the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University open with its collection intact.

Museum supporters filed a lawsuit in 2009, several months after then-Brandeis president Jehuda Reinharz announced that the school planned to close the museum and sell off an estimated $350 million in artwork in response to a university budget crisis. He later clarified that the Rose would no longer be a public museum, but would remain open to serve the school's educational needs.

The settlement reached on Thursday will allow the Rose to move forward with a renovation, hire a new director and plan future exhibits.

Current Brandeis president Frederick Lawrence told The Boston Globe he welcomed the settlement.

A plaintiff in the case, Jonathan Lee, said the deal guarantees that the museum's collection will not be "shuffled off."

This program aired on July 1, 2011. The audio for this program is not available.

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