The big problem with this situation is that it’s simply unnecessary: Living Computer Museum + Labs is not independent of Vulcan, and Vulcan can *easily* afford to keep the people who work there on payroll and working from home indefinitely.
This is happening entirely because the people holding the pursestrings have no idea how to run a museum, or even what a museum *does*. It’s pretty clear that they think they can just pack things away for a while, then hire a few people to take tickets and put out exhbits when they decide to reopen, without any consideration to the kind of historical preservation work the museum is in the process of doing or even what might need to be done to prepare exhibits for public access, what it means to be ready to obtain, receive, and preserve newly-uncovered historical artifacts, and so on. https://twitter.com/eschaton/status/1265751114953011200 A group of people who actually understand (like Woz and Gates et al) should step in, take it off Vulcan’s hands, and endow it as an independent entity. And people should stop donating their collections to museums and lend them instead. -- Chris
