Museum Grand Opening Content
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Museum Grand Opening Content for UC DavisenNew Art Museum Welcomes Thousands
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<p>Standing outside the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, as hundreds of people streamed inside on Sunday (Nov. 13), Rachel Teagle talked 鈥� and teared up 鈥� not about the grand opening ceremony that had just occurred at noon, but about what had happened the night before.</p>
<p>The museum hosted an overnight party for students 鈥� and 2,000 showed up. 鈥淭hey didn鈥檛 just come for the party,鈥� said Teagle, who has shepherded the project since her hiring as the museum鈥檚 founding director four years ago. 鈥淭hey were here to see the art.鈥�</p>November 15, 2016 - 9:00amCody Kitaura/news/shrem-museum-opens-public