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 <[email protected]> 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 < > [email protected]> 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 > > > > (Off-list replies are welcomed if that makes the discussion easier ...) >
