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Museum quietly slid into insolvency; 5 years of lax oversight, mismanagement were kept out of public eye
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On March 11, leaders of the Milwaukee Public Museum were forced to
turn their attention from dead pharaohs to live bankers.
Still basking in the glow of the wildly popular Egyptian "Quest
for Immortality" traveling exhibit, which officials hoped would help
catapult the museum into the nation's elite, the museum faced the
need for $1 million to make a scheduled bond payment.
It didn't have the money.
A solution was found, however. M&I Bank, whose president is on
the mus...
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