Imagine That-A Broadcast Museum

[Leslie]

Originally Posted by julianburke

I just received an email yesterday from someone for the MBC (Museum of Broadcast/Chicago) looking for some 1950's TV's and a couple of neon signs to make a temporary exhibit. What kind of museum is this??

Apparently they don't have any artifacts-just programming material from days of old like their old place had. It's a library, not a museum of artifacts!!

Imagine that--a broadcasting museum with no old TV's and such. I'll put my money on Geoffrey Bourne's museum in West Virginia!

This museum has recently moved into a new building that cost a fortune and was promised funding by Illinois' former governor. The funding fell through when the director of the museum failed to make a contribution to the campaign fund. After much controversy, the museum is now in it's new home, which as of yet is not open to the public. The museum's chief assets at present consist of a large library of film, tape and kinescope from Chicago's television history. They are trying to get enough artifacts together to make the museum a viable place to welcome visitors and present historical programming in a setting appealing to tourists and Chicagoans alike. This has been in the works for about 10 years and I 'm not sure if they will ever open it to the public.