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Where are the Lucas Museum’s long-promised educational programs?
Back in 2017, when the Lucas Museum lobbied for approval to break ground on public land in Exposition Park, its directors made a grand pledge to the City Council: The 13-acre campus would not just be a museum, but an institution focused on educating students.
Education, the museum’s then-president Don Bacigalupi proclaimed, “will be core to everything we do.” It was a promise made repeatedly by the Lucas leadership team over the last decade.
But more than a month after the museum opened to the public, those educational programs are nowhere to be found. One professor described being “ghosted, completely.” There’s not even a way to sign up for field trips on the museum’s website.
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