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Please Touch Museum feeling pain from debt load

The new Please Touch Museum has won adoration from 6-year-olds and other important critics, and its move to Memorial Hall undoubtedly kept a rare architectural artifact of the 1876 Centennial Exposition from sliding into irretrievable decrepitude.

The grand space afforded by Memorial Hall came at a price for the Please Touch Museum. It hopes to raise $30 million in a fund-raising campaign to help pay off its $60 million debt.
The grand space afforded by Memorial Hall came at a price for the Please Touch Museum. It hopes to raise $30 million in a fund-raising campaign to help pay off its $60 million debt.Read moreLAURENCE KESTERSON / Staff Photographer
    by Peter Dobrin, Inquirer Culture Writer
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