Huge donation to Auto Museum, Natural History Museum

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by wburg

Wow Chimerique, you've become such a naysayer already! With that kind of negative attitude, maybe a move to Bakersfield is in order?

Haha, you have be confused with someone else; I never told you to move to Bakersfield.

No, not me, I'm not a naysayer, never.

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by NewToCA

The CAM, previously known as the Towe Auto Museum, has a great collection, and I'd like to see it housed in a first class building. I had the good fortune to see the Staluppi classic car collection last year in West Palm Beach before it was sold off, and the way he had the museum set up would be a great model for the new CAM.

For the record, I'm all for cultural amenities for Sacramento, who doesn't like cool vintage cars. Yes, it should be housed in a first-class(world-class) building.

[caligirlz]

Bummer, it looks like the plan is on hold. Now it will be a while before I can see their stuffed animal collection.

Plan for museum with mounted exotic animals in Sacramento delayed

Following community concerns and issues raised about the design of the project by the city's planning commission, Paul and Renee Snider are delaying a request to buy land for the museum until next year.

Read more here: City Beat: Plan for museum with mounted exotic animals in Sacramento delayed

[ryuns]

Originally Posted by caligirlz

Bummer, it looks like the plan is on hold. Now it will be a while before I can see their stuffed animal collection.

The editorial that accompanied that article was pretty good, making the point that indeed, their outreach and explanations had been basically non-existent until Ryan Lillis wrote the original article, which caught pretty much everyone off-guard. Fortunately, it sounds like they still plan to go through with the project/donation.