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Aren't we rich enough to figure this out? Surely there's enough money in our community to have a museum like this. There's museums for silk, condoms, dog coll

Aren't we rich enough to figure this out? Surely there's enough money in our community to have a museum like this. There's museums for silk, condoms, dog collars, salt, chocolate... We can do this. Come on. Move it to CHM, charge more for the hands-on, run classes, get other foundations involved... Let's not sit this one out.

lotsoweiners 2y ago
Ok…you start.
- kristopolous 2y ago
  I'm not a millionaire. I'd do what I can. But you know, there's people with hundreds of millions reading this. Multiple of them. And the $10 million deficit isn't some requirement for a roomful of old computers. It could be run on Amazon property for instance, probably for 1/20th that. We shouldn't be forced into the stupid solution of liquidating a museum due to a willful failure of intelligence. I thought we were better than that
  - larsbrinkhoff 2y ago
    At least a little something is being done: https://icm.museum/ https://icm.museum/
advisedwang 2y ago
The article says it cost more than ten million dollars a year to run. That's a hard pull for another institution or a new public subscription to cover. It wasn't like those other museums because it did a huge amount of work to be a living computer museum. Getting and keeping ancient systems up is expensive. I think the best thing we could hope for would have been the machines to end up as static, dead exhibits like a conventional museum. Better than nothing but missing the spark that made LCM great. That would also at least have kept the door open to re-starting the effort in the future. It's a shame that Vulcan just auctioned off the assets. Did the really need the cash? It could have been donated to another museum etc.