Rare Michelangelo found in back room of museum

A rare Michelangelo drawing worth more than £6 million was discovered in a back room of a New York City design museum, museum officials said today.

‘‘To find a new drawing by Michelangelo is very exciting, but to find a drawing by him of a menorah and, moreover, in New York, is almost incredible,’’ said Sir Timothy Clifford, director of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, who discovered the work while on sabbatical at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, in Manhattan.