And now they have to take a full inventory.
Attendance in May exceeded last year’s by 80 percent, said museum director Lori Mannel. She attributes increased public interest in the museum’s programs for children and adults.
Its Science Saturdays bring scientific experts from throughout the region to the museum, other programs feature artists demonstrating their work and techniques and authors lecture on their books. The restoration of the Native Plant Garden was completed in April. These events have advanced the museum’s role as “a living field guide for the Central Coast,” Mannel said. “We’re becoming a regional resource.”
Artists demonstrating their work. Authors lecturing on their books. How many of these visits have nothing related to a museum? Sustainable P.G. kooks lapping up Dan Cort rewriting the history of his failures should not count as visits to view natural history.
Let’s give out free beer at the Mvsevm during the farmers market and we can quadruple attendance.
See What Happens When They Don’t Lock The Doors To The Mvsevm?
That woman has the biggest ego! They’re BECOMING a regional resource???? What were they before, chopped liver?
Maybe someone should do an article on the museum director’s role in last year’s destructive tree trimming in the butterfly sanctuary? That would make for good reading.
I can’t wait to hear their inflated attendance for the time during the US Open. The museum had the closest bathroom to the Pebble Beach chartered bus, and that’s got to be up there with free candy and mimosas as incentives for increased attendance. It’s sure not any new exhibit: they closed the Native American room & emptied out the cases. The monarch exhibit is gone, and the weather exhibit (that puppy cost $50,000+ less than 10 years ago!) has also disappeared. The problem is, they haven’t replaced any of the bumped exhibits with anything else, so it looks like they are emptying out the museum.
Your name should be Albert Baracuda!
Has anyone seen the mess left in front of the museum from the chalk festival held in conjunction with the Feast of Lanterns? What a mess! They also drew graffiti all over Sandy the Whale. This looks like it was a free-for-all without any supervision. And someone should sweep up the sand. It’s a slip hazard, and now that the farmers market is down there, all we need is an accident where the city gets sued.