[ARC5] Museum website

Sun Mar 25 18:57:10 EDT 2018

Since others are "experiencing problems" with your website, perhaps you should look there to understand my "strange questions". The site  is about as interesting as reading a legal document. Maybe that was the problem with the museum too.  

You also seem to imply that you are collecting donations for a third party telescope  museum? 

What bothers me is that there is lots of "discussion" , but no substance as in an address for a museum that someone could actually visit, but just a vague reference to a town.  OK, you lost the lease, where was it located? There still should be  historical promotional pictures of the original site.   Now THAT's strange...
So, have you filed an accounting of what the donations ( if any) were spent on?
If you are legitimately trying to re-start a museum, get people on board who know how to promote, curate , and fund raise or maybe it was never meant to be.

    On Sunday, March 25, 2018, 3:38:05 PM EDT, cfb at themuseums.org <cfb at themuseums.org> wrote:  

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From: J Mcvey [mailto:ac2eu at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2018 12:07 PM
To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net; cfb at themuseums.org
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Museum website

There are other real museums with similar URLs.

1) Museums:

Not to put too fine a point on it, while there are a few formal museums worldwide that have limited vacuum tube assets, there is no other formal museum dedicated to vacuum tubes.

Example: the Smithsonian has no vacuum tube exhibit.

Example: The Antique Wireless Association has a tiny vacuum tube exhibit. One would have thought otherwise, since tubes drive antique wireless radios.

Example: the British Museum has no vacuum tube exhibit.

Etc., etc.

More important, the Smithsonian does not know of any other formal museum dedicated to vacuum tubes. The Smithsonian has reviewed our Museum, confirmed that there is no other formal museum dedicated to vacuum tubes, and has granted us the rare privilege of applying for Smithsonian affiliation. They are particularly impressed with the extensive organizational policies, which they say they rarely see, even in very well-established museum organizations.

And other organizations such as the Tube Collectors Association do not know of any other formal museum dedicated to vacuum tubes.

If you know of another formal museum organization dedicated to vacuum tubes, let us know immediately.

2) Websites:

As to various websites, in general there are two types of websites in the general arena of vacuum tubes:

a) There are websites with museum-oriented words but in fact are not museums but rather sales operations.

b) There are a number of websites built by people, many by very good people with the passions to assemble and present good vacuum tube data and information. Again, none are a formal museum dedicated to vacuum tubes. One of the tasks ahead is to set up the links section of the Vacuum Tube Body of Knowledge with approved links to all organizations with valid vacuum tube data and information. Our Museum will not strive to have every tube, every tube-based gear, etc., in our collection, and will include images along with those links, acting as the central knowledge portal for anyone and everyone to access vacuum tube knowledge, wherever that knowledge may be.

Why do the museums mentioned on your site need YOU?

A very strange question… Is it possible for any organization to not have a founder? Did you read the About?: http://themuseums.org/about/

Don't they do their own own fund raising?

Again, a very strange question… Of course we do our own fund raising. Did you read the Ideal Funding Strategies?: http://themuseums.org/ideal-funding-strategies/

As I understand your site , you maintain no museum yourself.

If you do , where is it and where are the photos of it?

I am not sure if you read the history, which is articulated in several sections of the website. For example, on http://themuseums.org/international-vacuum-tube-museum/ you can see where we talk about losing our old Gallery in Lakewood Colorado.

I will post photos of the old Gallery.

We are currently working on getting a large building donated.

We maintain a proper 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization qualified under Federal law as a formal museum.

So what's the deal?

Again, a strange question… or at the least, entirely too open-ended to attempt an answer.

In all candor, your questions and statements seem quite off the cuff, without taking the time to read the appropriate sections on the website.

However, if the website does not adequately answer every possible question, it is because it is impossible to anticipate every possible question, especially strange questions,  especially strange questions that are already addressed in the relevant sections on the website.

All this being said, email questions directly to cfb at themuseums.org and I will build a new FAQ to try to appease even the strangest questions.

On Sunday, March 25, 2018, 1:52:54 PM EDT, cfb at themuseums.org <cfb at themuseums.org> wrote: 

There seems to have been some difficulties for 2 people in the Forum, possibly 3, accessing the current Museum website. I spent a lot of time this weekend with the new ISP I had to bring on, and we went through all the servers, software, systems, etc., and everything seems to be working correctly. If anyone is interested, over the past 2+ years I had to switch the Museum from an extremely bad ISP to the new ISP, also resulting in going through 3 domain changes, building 3 different website systems… a ridiculous amount of work, all while dealing with significant health issues and an extremely tiny budget for the Museum. The current website is a pale reflection of what it will become. Building a formal museum organization is far more difficult than you can imagine, unless you have been there. I look forward to any constructive and helpful feedback. Charles

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