MFA'S JAPAN BRANCH STRUGGLES NAGOYA CENTER HAS NEARLY $35M DEFICIT

The Boston Globe | June 9, 2003| | Copyright

They celebrated with the ritualistic smashing of a sake barrel and pledged to work together to bring the riches at the Museum of Fine Arts to Japan. But four years after MFA leaders traveled to Nagoya to celebrate the opening of a Far East branch, the satellite institution is hemorrhaging money.

At stake: Most of a $50 million payment to be made by the Japanese to the MFA over 20 years.

"Am I concerned about that museum?" said Katherine Getchell, the MFA's deputy director. "Sure. Yeah. It's a major project for the museum to try and improve their visitor numbers, and it is something we work on ...

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