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Originally Posted by We vs us
Wow, 100% yes to a museum. That would've been totally iconic.
It really is high time we get to get our cultural house in order. It's more and more urgent as our growth curve keeps tipping upwards. Not just the live music/street art piece, but allll the fine arts as well. There's seemingly so much spare tech capital lying around -- surely a savvy fundraiser could divert a few tens of millions into turning us into an iconic arts hub as well.
FWIW, I was just up in Bentonville AR not too long ago, and had a chance to see Crystal Bridges, the art museum/incubator/soon-to-be-arts college. It's an amazing, amazing resource for Arkansas and the region. Something like that -- with the right benefactors behind it -- could be transformative for Austin. And we arguably need something of that scale and importance to counterbalance what the Teslas and Oracles and Samsungs are going to continue to do to Austin's culture.
IMO, it's an urgent question that doesn't get much play at all.
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A-M-E-N
Broken record Healy here and we absolutely need all of the above yesterday. A real modern/fine art museum is so needed.
The city most definitely screwed up, but I think it was a thing of the times. Seaholm (from what I recall) had some financial issues and nearly didn't happen at all. My
sense was they leased it for a quick buck and a way forward. I would bet in the 2030s it'll become one of our many museums by that time.