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Offer made to manage museum
Sons of Confederate Veterans, angered by move idea, float plan
BY JANET CAGGIANO
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

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T he Sons of Confederate Veterans, outraged that the Museum of the
Confederacy might move out of Richmond, is offering to take over the
management of the museum. 

"Conditions at the museum have declined steadily for the past few years,"
said Frank Earnest, state commander of the 4,000-member Virginia Division of
the Sons of Confederate Veterans. "The current administration has brought
the situation to near crisis."

During a news conference yesterday at the Confederate Memorial Chapel on
Grove Avenue, Earnest said his group plans to meet with the museum's board
of trustees within a month to offer to take over the board and to discuss
the replacement of the museum's president and CEO, Waite Rawls.

Rawls and Carlton P. Moffat Jr., chairman of the museum's board of trustees,
declined to comment yesterday.

However, Rawls released a statement that said no decision has been made to
change the museum's name.

"Retaining future economic viability and at the same time remaining faithful
to the educational mission, identity and historic legacy of the museum is a
challenge faced in the relocation," the statement said. "Consideration of a
possible renaming of the museum, which might accompany relocation, should be
considered speculation at this time."

Rawls announced in October that museum officials were seeking a new home for
its Civil War collection, the world's largest, to escape the sprawling
medical campus of Virginia Common- wealth University. Officials traveled to
Lexington in January to tour a possible site there and are considering other
locations. Dropping the word "Confederacy" from the museum's name could
accompany a relocation.

"The changes proposed by the current administration are a betrayal to both
those who have donated to the collection and to the very spirit of museum,"
Earnest said. "We aren't saying the Museum of the Confederacy can't be
moved, just certainly not out of Richmond."

 
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Rawls has said repeatedly that he hopes the museum can stay in Richmond. The
White House will remain at 12th and East Clay streets, its home since 1818.

Should the museum move outside Richmond or change its name, Earnest said he
would no longer support the institution.

"We will take whatever steps necessary to maintain both the name and the
integrity of the Museum of the Confederacy and to see that it remains in the
city of Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy," Earnest said.


Contact staff writer Janet Caggiano at jcaggiano at timesdispatch.com or (804)
649-6157.

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