Very sad. Visited Science City today, so sad. The staff has been cut to 7 people total to run the facility. “Science City at Union Station Kansas City, MO Science City at Union Station is a $263 million adaptive reuse of Kansas City, Missouri’s Union Station. Completed in 1914 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Union Station …
Getty Fees and Budget Are Reassessed
By Ed Wyatt Published April 29, 2009 New York Times LOS ANGELES — The value of the J. Paul Getty Trust’s endowment has fallen so sharply and quickly — and its recovery is so uncertain — that the Getty has taken the unusual step of abandoning its traditional budgeting formula, adding to its layoffs and cutting back plans for museum …
Hello Van Gogh, Can You Hear Me Now?
Hello Van Gogh, Can You Hear Me Now? By DENNIS OVERBYE Published: April 13, 2009 Enlarge This Image Nina Sellars BODY AS CANVAS A fake ear in Stelarc’s arm will be wired for sound. He only wants to transform his body into a portal on the Internet. Which is why visitors to Exit Art, a gallery in Midtown Manhattan, are …
A Battle to Preserve a Visionary’s Bold Failure
A Battle to Preserve a Visionary’s Bold Failure Permalink Dickenson V. Alley/Burndy Library REMNANTS OF A DREAM Nikola Tesla in a multiple-exposure photo in 1899, as a Tesla coil discharged millions of volts. A science group wants to preserve the remains of his lab. More Photos » By WILLIAM J. BROAD Published: May 4, 2009 In 1901, Nikola Tesla began …
The Met Offers a New Look at Americana
The Met Offers a New Look at Americana Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times The renovated Engelhard Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art now houses marbles, bronzes and other pieces that can be examined up close. More Photos > Permalink By CAROL VOGEL Published: May 4, 2009 In the early 1970s, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled a …
Top 10 Visitor Centers
1. Mutter2. City Museum3. Museum of Outsider Art
Top 10 Art Museums
1. Mass Moca 2. DIA 3. San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art 4.
Finding the right partner
People always use the word partner when taking about business relationships, as part of the museum planning process finding a fabricator you can work with is truly a partnership. Often ideas will come up and before you want to move forward you want the project estimated, any good fabricator can do it, but they will only estimate a project so …
1/3, 1/3, 1/3
After years of experimentation I have have come to the formula 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 1/3 Of the exhibits off the shelf1/3 Of the exhibits off the shelf, and modified1/3 Of the exhibits custom to the institution The balance assures that the exhibits will work, will be cost effective and will be unique to the institution
Just say no to design
I fought it the whole way through design school (I have a Masters in Industrial Design), “it’s about planning not designing”. Design is not open ended, planning allows for multiple outcomes, I don’t care what any body says, you can not design an open ended exhibit. I know I have tried, I have watched people try and they always fail. …