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    Love’s gives science museum $1M
    By Brianna Bailey
    Oklahoma City reporter - Contact 405-278-2847
    Posted: 07:27 PM Monday, December 5, 2011

    OKLAHOMA CITY – Love’s Travel Stops has donated $1 million to the Science Museum Oklahoma. The donation will go toward $30 million in campus and exhibit upgrades the museum is planning over the next five years. The improvements include an eye-catching, modern new museum main entrance designed by Oklahoma City architect Rand Elliott and a major ...
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    Love's kicks off Science Museum Oklahoma fundraising campaign with $1M gift
    BY CARRIE COPPERNOLL
    Published: December 6, 2011

    Love's Travel Stops announced a $1 million donation Monday morning to help kick off a capital campaign and $30 million renovation of Science Museum Oklahoma.

    A $30 million renovation plan calls for the entrance of Science Museum Oklahoma to be rebuilt into an eye-catching attraction. Photo BY DAVID McDANIEL, THE OKLAHOMAN


    Love's kicks off Science Museum Oklahoma fundraising campaign with $1M gift
    The donation will be the start of the renovation to the museum entrance and the addition of a permanent exhibit aimed at introducing young children to science, museum officials said at a news conference.


    Read more: http://newsok.com/loves-kicks-off-sc...#ixzz1flmyleMi

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    Good lord is it desperately needed.

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    I think the front entrance looks pretty good already. IMO, it's the rest of the north facade to the west that is terrible.

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    The interior of that entire facility is especially ghastly. It's almost as if it's intended to be the world's largest exhibit of 1970s industrial airport hanger architecture.

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    Yes, it was built cheaply to get lots of space for not many $. It has served its primary purpose but sure is ugly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rover View Post
    Yes, it was built cheaply to get lots of space for not many $. It has served its primary purpose but sure is ugly.
    Thomas concrete products spit out way too much back in the early '80's.

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    Science Museum Oklahoma is preparing to announce a significant grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.

    The museum has scheduled a 10 a.m. Tuesday news conference to note the grant and formally kick off its $25 million capital campaign.
    Science Museum Oklahoma to announce grant | NewsOK.com

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    I wonder what the folks who've been promoting a children's museum in the old Stage Center space think about this development. or if they'll be involved in the planning & operation of this new museum in any way.

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    Outstanding! One of my girls worked there/volunteered there while still in school.

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    I'll say it since no one in the media has... it's a shame that the $22 million they are on track to raise didn't go to the children's museum proposal that would have saved Stage Center.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Questor View Post
    I'll say it since no one in the media has... it's a shame that the $22 million they are on track to raise didn't go to the children's museum proposal that would have saved Stage Center.
    While that might have been nice, why would the media say that in reporting a story?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Questor View Post
    I'll say it since no one in the media has... it's a shame that the $22 million they are on track to raise didn't go to the children's museum proposal that would have saved Stage Center.
    A major obstacle for any Stage Center retrofit is it is so specifically designed to be a theater it is terribly suited for anything else, the vast majority of the square footage is concrete terraces for seating at a 35+ degree pitch, some of which look like they could be load bearing.

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    Having already said my buh byes to SC ever coming back, I have to disagree with the notion it's a shame the funds being raised aren't available to save SC. If memory serves, estimate to make the SC property functional again exceeded 26 mil. However, 22 mil buys a functional children's museum and a bit more under the current fundraising plan for the existing museum expansion.

    If applied to SC, the same 22 mil wouldn't even get the building to a point the doors could open to the public as empty, unused space. Given the extreme disrepair that SC was permitted to reach, the shame would be to drop 22 mil and have not a lot to show for the effort.

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    Has anybody been to the Science Museum? It looks pretty interesting. It's been a while since I've visited a planetarium.

    home | Science Museum Oklahoma

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    At one time they had a chunck of the Berlin Wall in there, plus all kinds of cool aircraft and space related artifacts.

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    I defiantly need to visit the place then. I'm just a big kid lol

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    My husband and I went there just a few weeks ago. It was really fun. We didn't get to do everything though so we'll be going back sometime. I love hands-on exhibits and this place has tons of them. I enjoyed it more than the zoo-- less walking and more things to do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bellaboo View Post
    At one time they had a chunck of the Berlin Wall in there, plus all kinds of cool aircraft and space related artifacts.
    I remember that. It was actually a replica. I volunteered there in 1998 while in 8th grade and noticed that the picture of the actual wall had the art work reversed from the displayed exhibit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BrettM2 View Post
    I remember that. It was actually a replica. I volunteered there in 1998 while in 8th grade and noticed that the picture of the actual wall had the art work reversed from the displayed exhibit.
    I really don't think it was a replica. Robert Hefner contracted to buy it as it was being removed, had it on display in Aspen, Co the following summer, then donated it permanently to the Kirkpatrick Foundation. IIRC. But I could be wrong - anybody know ????

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    The Berlin Wall at the science museum, It's the real deal -

    The Hefner Collection

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bellaboo View Post
    The Berlin Wall at the science museum, It's the real deal -

    The Hefner Collection
    That's awesome. That means either my memory is way off or I was told wrong; I honestly don't remember at this point. Good to hear that it was real though.

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    or the image on the picture was reversed.

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