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| Winter 1999-2000 issue | . | Notre Dame exhibits at museum | |
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Notre Dame finally has a museum devoted to its history. But
you won't find it on campus, and actually it's only a piece of a museum. Last September the Northern Indiana Center for History, in downtown South Bend, opened a permanent gallery that will feature changing exhibits on the history of Notre Dame. The first show, "Under the Golden Dome," looks at the recently renovated Main Building and will continue through May 31, 2000. The next display, likely to open in late summer or early fall, is expected to focus on Notre Dame and the Civil War. In the current exhibit, historic photographs, documents and artifacts are grouped by the floor of the Main Building to which they pertain. One of the items from the third floor, literally, is a 10-foot-tall section of plaster and lath. It's a section of a wall on which a life-size portrait of Notre Dame founder Rev. Edward Sorin, CSC, was painted around 1880. The mural was one of three such wall portraits removed during the renovation. Other artifacts on display include menus from 1895 and 1899 for the student refectory (dining room) on the building's ground floor, an 18-inch-wide wooden bowl that painter Luigi Gregori practiced on before tackling the underside of the Dome, and a 6-foot-tall tin cross with "N.D. at the base that stood for decades on a gable facing the Main Quad. . |
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