America’s Oldest Natural History Museum to Close Sept 30th, 2026

410 points by xxThe_Designer 5 days ago on reddit | 12 comments

All_Your_Base | 5 days ago

Who needs history when we can be funding a BALLROOM ?

sweetica | 5 days ago

Maybe if this museum agrees to be named after DJT, he will fund it.

drunksquatch | 5 days ago

The DJT has no idea what any of this stuff is House

Lapidariest | 5 days ago

their current endowment is 1.13 billion so they chose to close downhill the museum.. I look forward to the liquidation of the geology and mineralogical specimens

Coders32 | 4 days ago

Endowments are more complicated than donations, but ultimately, yeah

CJPrinter | 5 days ago

Fuck this timeline.

Will2LiveFading | 5 days ago

There will be a new data center October 1st 2026

amalgaman | 5 days ago

Where are they putting all the stuff in it?

hottertime | 5 days ago

Just put a data center in the basement then you can get some private equity to chip in a billion or two. Rent out the books to ChatGPT so they can uploaded to the LLM. Free money all day long. Drexel is not being creative enough.

kauthonk | 5 days ago

It was so not inviting.

Would have been easy to triple foot traffic