Natural History Museum on Track With New Plans, Construction, for $150 Million Expansion and Renovation

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By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer

Like a dinosaur with the munchies, a bright yellow crawler excavator machine nibbled on a brick and glass vestibule in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s inner courtyard Tuesday and slowly crunched it to bits.

The demolition was part of the latest action last week in a multi-phase, decade-long expansion and renovation designed to bring a beloved but dowdy, chaotically organized cultural institution firmly into the 21st century.

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