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GeneralRutgers geology museum may close
2nd Feb 2013 13:14 UTCFred E. Davis
A sad but familiar story. Its fate is not yet certain, but there are rumors of turning the building into an auditorium.
2nd Feb 2013 15:31 UTCKeith A. Peregrine 🌟
2nd Feb 2013 17:38 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager
University of Wisconsin, University of Nebraska, University of Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, University of Iowa all have natural history/geological museums
http://www.inlandlapidary.com/user_area/museums.asp
2nd Feb 2013 17:58 UTCChris Stefano Expert
2nd Feb 2013 18:47 UTCKeith A. Peregrine 🌟
David, thanks for the info on the Natural History Museum in Indianapolis. Despite being a native Hoosier, I was never aware of it. Will add it to my list of things to do in 2013.
2nd Feb 2013 19:09 UTCBob Harman
2nd Feb 2013 20:34 UTCMark Heintzelman 🌟 Expert
If you ask me, it all sounds like a red herring to avoid the bad press that the collection is no longer valued by the Universities administration and is to be sold off. If they had any intention of retaining the collection, it would cost the University a great deal less to leave everything "as is", and retrofit/expand any number of other facilities on campus. The only current costs are the maintenance of the building (this cost will still exist no matter what "plan" is executed), and the single staff person to oversee it (As I understand it, this is all the support the University had in place for the museum).
It's been a while, but I guess I should make another quick trip up there . . . this time to say "goodbye".
MRH
18th Feb 2013 13:13 UTCEric D. Fritzsch 🌟
18th Feb 2013 16:10 UTCDonald Peck
The following message is from Robert L. Barchi, M.D., Ph.D., President of Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey concerning recent inquiries related to the status of the Rutgers Geology Museum:
Thanks for your message concerning the Rutgers Geology Museum. Please be assured that the museum is NOT
closing.
Rutgers is investigating modifications to Geology Hall to make it ADA compliant and to introduce seating for the
students we bring to the museum, while preserving this historic room. We plan to expand our outreach in the life
and natural sciences. Our bus will continue to operate, and we plan to keep all of the museum’s bones and fossils
on site and in sight (the mastodon will be encased in glass at the back). We want to keep this room as a museum
auditorium.
Rutgers cannot continue to operate a museum to which we bring young people that has no access for individuals
with physical disabilities. In addition, we need a space for instruction for the outreach we do. We envision this
space as being a beautiful hybrid space outfitted with the best technologies for teaching. It will not have university
classes in it, but instead will be for outreach -- a place where professors will come and give talks to grade school
and high school students.
The university is sensitive to your concerns. As you may know, the museum is not self-sustaining. We hope that by
making it ADA compliant, while preserving its historic nature and modernizing it as a showcase for student
outreach, we can win some of the many grants to which we are excluded from applying because of the standards of
the present space.
18th Feb 2013 16:39 UTCChester S. Lemanski, Jr.
18th Feb 2013 17:42 UTCFred E. Davis
18th Feb 2013 22:42 UTCMatt Neuzil Expert
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