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at least it’s better than the Peterson Auto Museum exterior.

The bedroom is a bit of a hipster hat museum.

@timquinn: What an idiotic poster.

Vanity museums – museums that bear the name of one contributor, thereby essentially making it a personal museum – get far fewer contributions of art and large gifts. Donors who have amassed collections and want their gift to be acknowledged are unlikely to donate to a museum bearing another person’s name. That is why the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the National Gallery of Art are bequeathed more pieces of art than the Getty, the Menil, or the Isabella Stewart Gardner. Creating a museum credited solely to one person means that, once the founding namesake patron stops donating, the museum will largely only acquire new art on the basis of its endowment.

Look at the Norton Simon or the Hammer – two vanity museums who are stagnant due to lack of major art donations.

The Notebaert Museum was originally the Chicago Academy of Sciences founded in 1857. The museum was housed in the Matthew Laflin Memorial building at Clark and Armitage from 1894 until 1995. The building was not conducive to being a modern museum. A deal was made to turn the original building into the Lincoln Park Zoo administration building. The Park District provided land next to North Pond that had some old maintenance buildings for the construction of a new museum. Peggy Notebaert was the wife of the head of Ameritech and chair of the board for the museum. He bought the naming rights to the museum as an anniversary gift for his wife for $4 million – well below what naming rights to the oldest museums in such a prominent location should have cost.

What a relic! I’m sure any kind of re-zoning would be very painful, but this thing just begs to be turned into some kind of business. Historic museum, urban farmstead wine bar / kitchen – hello yard, in a pandemic! You heard it here first, ya’ll.

A building with this program could nicely complement the landscape, but sadly this design mimics landscape without integrating it up and around the building. If it was low slung, mostly located under a berm buffering the rest of the park from the adjacent highway, with skylights & small pavilions of activity popping above the landscape it could easily improve this site & dedicate even more of its footprint to green space.

That being said, my disagreements over design don’t make this museum proposal any different from the 5 other museums that are already in our lakefront parks. Especially since the agreement means that the building is the property of the city should Lucas ever shut down the Narrative Art Museum. I would push for design changes, not oppose the museum in hopes of waiting decades for the Park District to find the money to bury the parking lot under a new park. Because that’s just fantasy, not even sci-fi.

I agree that the location is beautiful, but that’s not a rationale for doing the wrong thing there. The fact that Lucas has offices in the Presidio is certainly no argument for a Disney museum (any more than it’s an argument for a Starwars museum or a Raiders fun-ride there).

The Presidio is a beautiful place with a strong history. Walt Disney never had anything to do with it. Roy Disney never had anything to do with it. The Disney family never had anything to do with it.

Given the fact that their terrible storefront on Union Square was allowed to pipe overloud and insipid tunes from High School Musical 2 not only soured many a tourist on what should have been the sophisticated charm of Union Square, but also bodes badly indeed for any Disney project in SF—including a museum.

This is such a bad idea… where to begin? But they are just throwing money at favored consultants anyway, since they have no plans to pay for the museum themselves. Is the Grammy museum a big success? At least that location can handle bus loads of people. Where can the Strip handle that? This museum shouldn’t be any bigger – and they are proposing something many times larger. Besides, making a museum of it will kill what ever hipness is left of the Strip.

What the Autry is doing to the Southwest Museum is criminal. That museum and its collection is a seminal part of Southwest, Souther California and Los Angeles culture and history. If you know nothing of the museum, Charles Lumis, or the role that Lumis played in shaping the region from his stomping grounds in the Arroyo Secco you owe it to yourself to do some reading. To pillage the collection and move it to a museum in the valley that honors and 1950s TV cowboy is short-sighted to say the least.

@Tone: I think you are confusing what I said about the city and the blues museum. The museum is not a city funded museum. It’s private. The city didn’t want it in Navy Pier, but the private investors didn’t want it on the south side because of how it looks today. Ultimately the city gave in and granted them to be able to put it in Navy Pier.

Regardless, that’s the type of investment the city needs, in areas like the south side. Just imagine if the Obama Library and a Blues Museum were near one another?