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reproductions, never really equal daily unhurried contacts with works of art, in which students can see true color, sixe and texture in a familiar college setting," Chernow wrote in 1980. Robbin Zella became director in the late 1990s. Since 2000, the museum has hosted traveling exhibits on
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