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Wealthy Detroit Area Resident Offers $5m to Secure DIA Art, Says Others Will Follow Suit

December 6, 2013 by Marion Maneker

Van Gogh, Portrait of POstman Roulin

Detroit’s A Paul Schaap is stepping up to try to organize a public campaign to secure DIA’s art collection. He says he’s good for $5m and will talk to the judge who is acting as mediator between the city and creditors about organizing a broader campaign:

“I believe there are more than just a few people in the metro Detroit area who would step up and see this as something we should all try to do to save the pensions and stabilize the DIA,” Schaap said in an interview Friday. […]

“We have a passion for the city,” said Schaap, who lives next door in Grosse Pointe Park and was a Wayne State University chemistry professor before starting his own technology company. “We go to the DIA, the symphony, ballgames. We’re Detroiters. Maybe this is a way to help.”

Philanthropist offers $5M to protect Detroit museum’s collection (CTV News)

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