31 Oct
2022
31 Oct
'22
3:35 a.m.
The museum had been one of Paul Allen's private passion projects. Sadly, he
died rather unexpectedly and he hadn't really had time to set up a proper
legal entity to protect it after his death, so it and all his other passion
projects ended up controlled by his wife's real estate company which
started looking at ways of shutting them down almost immediately. COVID
gave them the perfect excuse, sadly.
Mike
On Sun, Oct 30, 2022, 1:16 PM Royce Taft via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
That’s really disappointing to hear. I only discovered
that museum for
myself via their website a couple of years ago and had no idea that it
closed. I had planned on visiting next time my wife and I travel to
Seattle.
I hope that they are able to reopen.
Royce
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 30, 2022, at 09:22, Michael Brutman via
cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
My apologies if this topic is a sore point for some of you. Their
abrupt
closing wasn't that long ago.
Does anybody have any insight on what is going on there? The web site
has
not been updated in about 2.5 years. The world
seems to be moving on; it
would be nice to know if we're ever going to see the museum re-open, and
in
what capacity.
I realize the people are gone and scattered and it's never going to be
the
same experience if it re-opens. But there are
plenty of us who still
believe in the need for such a place, and starting from scratch would be
difficult.
-Mike
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