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Sunnyside Museum trustees hand city keys to new $192,000 storage building to protect artifacts
Summary
Trustees of the Sunnyside Museum and Historical Association completed a multi-year effort to build and donate a 40-by-50-foot, climate-capable storage building — funded entirely by the association — and formally handed the key to the city. The building will house artifacts that nearly led to dissolution of the nonprofit in 2023.
Trustees of the Sunnyside Museum and Historical Association presented the city a newly completed storage building on Monday and formally returned control of the museum property to the city.
After years of staffing changes, declining attendance and an earlier vote in 2023 that nearly dissolved the association, new trustees elected in late 2023 directed association funds to construct a 40-by-50-foot storage building to protect the museum’s artifacts. The association funded the project entirely from its own resources; trustees told council the…
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