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Article: The curious fixation of the Rodin Chaser: a museum's proactive strategy heads off potentially damaging media coverage.(Glenbow Museum)
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- Communication World
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- November 1, 2006
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Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta, is one of Canada's largest and most entrepreneurial museums, welcoming more than 160,000 visitors every year. Home to an art gallery, a library and archives, the museum presents three major temporary exhibitions annually. In 2004-2005, one of these exhibitions was Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, which was traveling from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation in Los Angeles, home to the largest private collection of Rodin works in the world. It was the first Rodin exhibit to come to Calgary, and Glenbow Museum was the first Canadian venue for the exhibition on its North American ...