After the elder Mr. Graham died in 1991, the family donated the structure, by then dilapidated, to the museum.
"The big challenge in writing the screenplay was to not make this story the familiar, unimportant, popcorn-type pabulum," he says, sitting in the production offices of his next movie, "Unbreakable," in a vacant, fairly dilapidated, ivy-overrun museum on the edge of the University of Pennsylvania campus.
Every half-knit wool museum and dilapidated model village in Europe will be rebranded under a common logo comprising a dependable-looking roof sheltering a polished turd.
Some museums are dilapidated.
Rochelle Slovin remembers what it was like when she came to Astoria, Queens, in 1981 to try to turn a dilapidated film studio building into a museum about movies and television, how she had to dodge the pigeons and the soiled mattresses where kids had been shooting drugs — all in her high heels.
The nonprofit survives on donations, and with few current contributors, the stables are falling into disrepair and the federation's museum is presently a dilapidated trailer containing a hodgepodge of memorabilia and artifacts.
Sigal has installed small, dilapidated scraps of stripe painting in the museum's stairwell, where they suggest unbidden thoughts of a worried mind.
Until recently the CSMVS was as dilapidated as the rest, but today the museum has over 1m visitors a year, a handsome government subsidy and a devoted group of private fund-raisers.
Museums are sprouting in formerly dilapidated factories, and offbeat art galleries are showcasing works from the city's creative class.
After seeing the dilapidated rooms of the Zhonghui Building where the museum was then housed, Huang agreed to allocate a prime site on the People's Square, but the museum had to raise its own building funds.
