“Magic in the Museum” | Visit Detroit

It feels a little like being in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Our tour group is shuffling through the ground floor of the Cranbrook Art Museum when we come to a massive, curved steel door. Gregory Wittkopp, the director of the Cranbrook Art Museum who could give Mr. Wonka a run for his money in the charisma department, pauses in front. “It starts with this curious wall,” he said with a grin, punching in a code and sliding the steel mass to one side. We walk down a flight of stairs and down a long industriallooking hall filled with shipping crates, which hold the latest exhibit pieces that have arrived at the museum. “This is one of the moments we hope has a little drama to it,” said Wittkopp, disappearing down a corner and fl ipping on a light switch to reveal a collection of Pewabic pottery from one of the nation’s ...

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