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Once again, developers submit bids for Greenway parcel near Haymarket
By adamg on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 9:08am
NorthEndWaterfront.com rounds up the latest offerings, all of which would include space for Haymarket vendors and three of which the state previously rejected.
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Yes to the Boston Museum. I
Yes to the Boston Museum. I always wondered why a city rich with human and natural history does not have a museum or some other cultural center that celebrates these aspects of its identity.
Rejection hurts
If the Boston Museum can find the money to do so, then, Great! The problem before was that they had no plan to raise the funds to build it.
Do other cities have such
Do other cities have such Museums?
At least one does
Museum of the City of New York.
In fact, New-York has two
The other one: New-York Historical Society
Three!
The Brooklyn Historical Society
(Founded as the Long Island Historical Society, back when Brooklyn was its own city.)
Paris does
http://www.carnavalet.paris.fr/en
(An interesting and free museum -- albeit a bit erratic, one never knows just which galleries might happen to be closed on any given day (or time of day).
I think the greatest problem
I think the greatest problem is that Boston has multiple organizations running historical programs. Any money going to a new museum - which I'm in favor of - would be taken away from existing institutions.
How so?
Are you saying that donors would switch alliances from one museum to another?
There's one pot of money to
There's one pot of money to pay for such things. I think it's reasonable to assume that the Usual Suspects who already support the existing institutions would be hit up for the new one. What I'm saying is that the existing institutions would probably not look kindly on having to compete with a shiny new museum.
It's pretty basic math, no?
A pie can only be cut into so many slices. So yes--at some point donors have to chose where to allocate their dollars.