Wadsworth Atheneum: oldest public museum in US comes back from brink

Connecticut museum of art will soon be open in its entirety for the first time in years, after an innovative revamp that will showcase the breadth of its collectionFounded in 1842 in Hartford, Connecticut, the Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest continually operating public museum in the US. Recently, beset by debt and crumbling infrastructure, it flirted with losing that title. Under director Susan Talbott, it has pulled itself back from the brink.
Talbott presides over a collection that ranges