The Cleveland Museum of Art has to Rebuild Trust

Editorial Board" 'The Cleveland Museum of Art has to rebuild trust after the recent scandal involving former director David Franklin's affair with an employee: editorial', The Plain Dealer, November 16, 2013

The board of the Cleveland Museum of Art may have done all it reasonably could to ferret out the secret extramarital affair between its former museum director David Franklin and a one-time employee. The scandal led to Franklin's resignation last month. But the museum failed in one crucial regard: It did not communicate honestly and effectively with the public and tell all it knew, a step that would have alleviated skepticism and outrage as the real story was revealed.