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While the future of the Allston museum remains uncertain, the Art Museum plans to expand its emphasis on contemporary art with a 4,000 sq. ft. permanent space in the renovated building on Quincy St., which is slated to open in 2013, according to Daron J. Manoogian, the Art Museum’s director of communications...
...It’s not as if that project we were planning in Allston was the sole venue for contemporary art,” Manoogian said...
...Museum spokesman Daron Manoogian says that beyond vaults or deadlocks, stored pieces are protected by other security systems as well, though he declined to name them, citing a policy not to comment on specific security measures. “A critical aspect of maintaining proper security for any museum is to keep all such measures strictly confidential,” he said in a statement...
...prior experience in security. The guard mentioned that all the Sackler security guards were given a day’s worth of training specifically focused on the protection of cultural items, but admits, “I kind of forgot what happened in the training.” Manoogian says that in addition to that training session, guards go through multiple other seminars over the course of a given year...
...Fortunately, Harvard Art Museum—which according to Manoogian has a system of security measures in place that meets recommended practices for museum security—has never faced the embarrassment of a successful heist. Still, a few crimes have been attempted, according to one Sackler guard. One Degas showed subtle signs of being cut out of the frame, although the culprit was never caught in the act and disappeared among the crowd...