The Art Newspaper

Crazy golf cart did not crash into Tampa Museum

By The Art Newspaper. From In The Frame
Published online: 03 February 2010

It looked like the opening of the new Tampa Museum of Art in the Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, Florida, this weekend was set to be scuppered-by an unruly golf buggy. Local press reports stated that a wayward golf cart had crashed into the corner of the new 66,000-square-foot Cornelia Corbett Center building last weekend. But the shattered corner of the new museum was, instead, reportedly damaged by a runaway equipment crate following a concert in an adjacent park. A lighting-and-sound crew apparently lost control of the crate, which smashed into the side of the museum's glass exterior. Thankfully, the gleaming new build is still set to launch on 6 February (phew).