Mass. General Hospital grant enables West End Museum to hire its first salaried executive director
Boston Globe
Sebastian Belfanti went to school to study rocks, but ended up digging into something quite different: the urban renewal that destroyed the West End.
Now, Belfanti’s full-time job is to shine a spotlight on that sordid chapter of Boston’s history — thanks to a $3.65 million pledge from Massachusetts General Hospital to the West End Museum.
“It’s been really exciting . . . to strongly address these very challenging histories that either don’t get told enough, or at all,” said Belfanti, the museum’s first paid executive director. “I still read accounts of this and go, like, ‘No way.’ It just seems impossible.”
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