The AHS website currently boasts that a recent poll identified
their History Museum at Papago Park (actually the Marley Center Museum) as a
best value. Was that a poll of museum patrons or museum reviewers?
No.
It was the 2012 Wedding Chronicle’s Readers Poll. It
recognized the Marley as the “best place for value” to schedule a wedding
reception.
If the Marley were a first rate history museum, and if wedding
receptions defrayed part of the cost of operating such a state museum, that would be
fine. However, the design and maintenance of the Marley both suggest that the
tail is wagging the dog at the Marley.
It appears to be a taxpayer subsidized wedding reception center that has
old, obsolete and broken interactive museum displays rusting and rotting mostly
out of sight on the second floor. Museum attendance appears to be pitifully
low, and the AHS will not even release the numbers
Why should Arizona taxpayers provide millions of dollars a year to subsidize
a wedding reception facility that competes unfairly with private facilities?
Why are Arizona taxpayers providing the AHS with a half
million dollars a year for an Arizona Experience Museum when the AHS never even
opened such a museum?
Absolutely unbelievable. What a joke. I doubt that any of the wedding guests go into the museum except to use the facilities, which probably is available in their annexed area that stores tables and chairs or where the reception can be used in case of inclement weather. This is separate from the actual museum building housing exhibits.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many teachers paid the $150 for their one week course on the science of geology, zoos, solar etc?
Two more years of Brewer and I hope Woosley decides to retire soon, but she is making a bundle.
There were very few cars in the Marley parking lot during the science course. Most of them probably belonged to employees.
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