> From: "P. van Mensch" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:         Mon, 27 Mar 2000 07:32:51 +0200

> I am very interested to learn about other examples of museologists
> (founders, directors, curators) buried in "their own" museum!

William Hayes Ackland is entombed in the Ackland Art Museum.  Those of you who are aware of the
rivalry between UNC and Duke University (which always intensifies during March Madness) might be
amused to learn that when Mr. Ackland died in 1940, he left his bequest to Duke University. Duke's
trustees, however, objected to stipulations that Mr. Ackland be buried in the museum named after
him and that his money be managed by trustees in Washington, D. C. They refused the bequest and
started nine years of litigation that resulted in the award of the Ackland Trust to the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the other schools previously considered by Mr. Ackland.

See http://www.unc.edu/depts/ackland/about.html for more details.  -- Anne Douglas
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Anne Fuhrman Douglas               email: [log in to unmask]
Registrar                                    phone: 919-966-5736
Ackland Art Museum                   fax:   919-966-1400
The University of North Carolina
Campus Box 3400
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3400
U.S.A.

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