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Speaking of museums hitting some bumps along the way, in New York, the new Robert A.M. Stern-designed home for the Museum of African Art has been forced to push its opening back a full six months, from April of next year to sometime later in the fall of 2011. The NY Times reports that the building’s developers were to have most of the structural bones of the project finished months ago, but still hadn’t finished, which has slowed down all the other pieces that need to be put into place before the building is able to open. Furthermore, the paper reports that, like with all new projects being built in the thick of a recession, finances have been an issue as well:

[Museum president, Elsie McCabe Thompson] said fund-raising was not a factor in the delay. As of June, the museum had raised only $71 million of the $95 million it needed to pay for construction. Mrs. Thompson said she had since raised an additional $4.5 million. Asked if the museum was considering a phased opening, she said, “I promised a full building, and I’m going to move earth to make it happen.”

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