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Both problems--space and climate control--come down to a question of money, and raising that money will be Slive's highest priority. The planned installation of a system to filter dust and pollutants out of the air and control the relative humidity inside the Fogg will necessitate closing a third of the building at a time for three-month stretches...
...about 35,000 square feet of space and could not absorb its holdings from the areas that would be closed off. So the climate control system, whose cost was estimated at $500,000 five years ago, really can't be installed until the Fogg gets its addition, which Slive says will cost at least $7,000,000. And so he sits in his office, surrounded by a selection of the Fogg's surplus holdings, waiting for the knock of some donor who will liberate them...
While past directors have influenced the Fogg through their efforts as collectors. Slive's efforts will be directed more towards ensuring the well-being of what the museum already has. "His main challenge will be to refurbish the building, to expand it, to make the Fogg's fiscal structure sound," says Rosenfield. "The museum is at a crossroads in this sense...
...Slive is not primarily an administrator. Crimson-faced and sweaty-haired, he's out of his element when not confronting the students in his museum and producing reactions between them and its works of art. Naturally he sees the Fogg as a teaching tool...
...here as a laboratory for the department." Slive says. This conception is widely shared by the museum's staff...