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Or the fact that they don't see maintaining a home for a bunch of old computers for people to look at is a priority given other museums and world needs.

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It's not like there's a shortage of money for art museums or natural history museums, but we do seem to be closing museums (this one and previously the Boston one) detailing the history of one of the biggest innovations in human history.

When you say "world needs" you mean sports teams and personal space travel? It's safe to say all of them have plenty of money to save this small museum and still fund their hobbies and causes.

They depend on people actually willing to pay to support them. Both through donations and admissions.

If the museum was open I'm sure it would have plenty of visitors and support. Can't visit a museum that isn't open.

But the fact is that most museums rely, in least in part, on grants and benefactors in addition to visitors.

Except it apparently didn't have sufficient donors and benefactors--or vistors.

What are you basing this assertion on? It was closed because of the pandemic. When that was over Allen had been dead for several years, his instructions had been to sell everything and give it to charity so that's what his sister has been doing. No one attempted to reopen with alternative benefactors or see if visitors would come.

I was there right before the pandemic and there were a decent number of visitors (given that it was a weekday afternoon).

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