“We made a commitment to stay within our budget,” he said. “And that doesn’t sound like a great and brilliant strategy, and it really isn’t, but that hadn’t been the case with the museum. And we showed the agencies how if we stayed within our budget and actually lowered the budget significantly, we could get back on our feet. And, they said, ‘OK, we’ll see if you’re going to really follow through on this plan.’ And we were lucky enough to be able to do so.”