Al­most a week af­ter the Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty (CDA) sent an evic­tion no­tice to the Mil­i­tary Mu­se­um, of­fi­cials locked the cu­ra­tor out of the premis­es on J’Ou­vert morn­ing.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia out­side the mu­se­um yes­ter­day, the di­rec­tor of the Mil­i­tary His­to­ry and Avi­a­tion Mu­se­um, Lin­da Kelshall said that some­time just af­ter 6 am she was alert­ed to the ac­tions of the CDA.

In a let­ter dat­ed Oc­to­ber 1, 2024, the CDA with­drew its 30-year lease, which Kelshall said places the mu­se­um and its more than 500 years of his­to­ry in jeop­ardy.