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I’d be sadder about this if I hadn’t been to this museum and seen how terrible it is. It’s one of those historical museums that has almost no actual historical artifacts in it, just unintentionally hilarious reproductions and tableaux and dioramas and stuff. And lots of touch-screen computer kiosks made from 15-year-old computers that are all out of order. It also has some nice interactive stuff for kids that’s chained to a table and battered beyond recognition. Is this a hammer? A salmon? An airplane? I can’t tell.
The big train layout’s pretty neat. When I leaned in for a closer look a security guard watching me on closed-circuit TV shouted at me over the speakers in the ceiling “STEP AWAY FROM THE GLASS, SIR, YOU’RE TOO CLOSE”. That was charming.
It’s a shame. The building is a treasure. But as an historical museum it’s inferior to the one in Garfield County, Montana, population 1,279.
Check out Silverton up in BC. Or the one in Salmon Bay.
Fuck off, Will.
As a Tacoma native and current Spokanite who lives in the neighborhood the MAC is in, this is a real bummer. The WA State History museum is not awesome, at all (though the reclamation of that building was a major win for historic preservation of that building at the time), but the MAC is vital, has incredibly interesting exhibits, and a wonderful cafe. And a great view. Bummer. Maybe doesn’t make the grade given the current budget shortfall, but sad nonetheless.
Schoolchildren—schoolchildren crammed into more-crowded classrooms—rejoice.
Gregoire and all the high density, high growth people who destroyed Seattle and Washington State in the last 10 years have a lot of explaining to do.
They have to explain why all these services, and benefits of WA state — which were perfectly funded and solvent in 2000 — are now somehow at risk or to be closed under the much, much larger 2010 budget — which even after cuts, is still higher, per person…including 2000-2010 population growth…than the 2000 budget.
Explain it, Governor.
@5, I do believe you are the stupidest son of a bitch who ever walked the earth.
Ditto on both of Fnarf’s comments. I love history with an indecent passion–I’m a history major/museum dork–but I was over this museum about 20 minutes after I walked in the door. They’ve got the museum-y “feel” down, but that’s about it.