A traveling exhibit designed to raise difficult and compelling questions about mental-health issues is being brought to the community in the fall by Muskegon County’s Community Mental Health department.A portable version of a major New York State Museum exhibition seen by more than 600,000 visitors during its nine-month run, called “The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic,” attempts to draw attention to people who were committed to mental institutions in the early- to mid-20th century. The exhibit is based on patients’ suitcases discovered after Willard Psychiatric Center in New York’s Finger Lakes region closed in 1995.
The traveling exhibit is set to run Oct. 19-Nov. 30 at the Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts, 425 W. Western (in Muskegon.)
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