Re: Living Computer Museum

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On May 28, 2020, at 9:49 AM, Bill Degnan <billdeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 9:14 AM Paul Koning via cctalk 
> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Also remember that museums don't necessarily honor contracts, and when they 
> don't, courts may fail to enforce them.  There was a notorious case a few 
> years ago involving a museum created by a bequest that required it to be 
> remain located in whatever town it was founded in (a small town in PA, I 
> think).  At some point the people running the museum decided they didn't like 
> that and moved it to another city (Philadelphia?).  The descendants of the 
> benefactor sued for breach of contract, and lost.  I forgot what fancy BS the 
> courts used to justify their decision, but in some lawyerly fashion they did.
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>         paul
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> What museum was that?
> 
> Bill 

The Barnes Collection, from Merion, PA to Philadelphia, 2004.

        paul