GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Grand Rapids Public Museum is closed Wednesday after team members identified potentially unstable drugs in one of the museum’s exhibits.
The museum’s “The Streets of Old Grand Rapids” exhibit is a recreation of the city in the 1890s, and it includes 11 storefronts based on actual businesses from the time. One storefront is the Rudell Drug Store, which features all original fixtures: According to GRPM’s website, when the real drug store in Sault Ste. Marie closed in 1969, the entire interior was disassembled and shipped to Grand Rapids.
During a curatorial review of the drug store, museum staff identified “several pharmaceuticals that can degrade over time and become unstable,” a spokesperson for GRPM told News 8…