Where would you move and greatly expand the Fernbank museum? (Atlanta: elementary school, live)

[Born 2 Roll]

Originally Posted by UrbanQuest

Which location do you think would work best both for success of the museum and neighborhood.

Originally Posted by UrbanQuest

I don’t know. Keep it where it is? Yawn if Atlanta has no interest in expanding its cultural offerings to regional significance, let alone global.

The Fernbank Museum of Natural History is named after the Fernbank Forest that the museum sits immediately adjacent to and the forest (which is an old-growth urban forest) actually is part of the museum and the museum experience.

The Fernbank Museum was designed and intended to be exactly where it is located right next to the historic Fernbank Forest.

The Fernbank Museum does not have to be moved for Atlanta to expand its cultural offerings to regional and international significance.

Atlanta can expand its cultural offerings to regional and global significance without moving the Fernbank Museum to another location… Which the Fernbank Museum isn’t moving and would never move to another location anyway for all of the important reasons offered on this thread.

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by Born 2 Roll

The Fernbank Museum of Natural History is named after the Fernbank Forest that the museum sits immediately adjacent to and the forest (which is an old-growth urban forest) actually is part of the museum and the museum experience.

The Fernbank Museum was designed and intended to be exactly where it is located right next to the historic Fernbank Forest.

The Fernbank Museum does not have to be moved for Atlanta to expand its cultural offerings to regional and international significance.

Atlanta can expand its cultural offerings to regional and global significance without moving the Fernbank Museum to another location… Which the Fernbank Museum isn’t moving and would never move to another location anyway for all of the important reasons offered on this thread.

Oh, SNAP!

Oh, and to the OP: The reason that hardly anyone has even bothered to respond to the poll is due to the sheer ludicrousness of the suggestion of it.

[bu2]

Originally Posted by Citykid3785

I quite like the location.

The museum itself is a bit tired and underwhelming, but nothing to do with the location

Well they don't have enough exhibits to expand.

And as mentioned, they have plenty of space for expansion. They have all that property along Ponce.

[UrbanQuest]

Originally Posted by Born 2 Roll

The Fernbank Museum of Natural History is named after the Fernbank Forest that the museum sits immediately adjacent to and the forest (which is an old-growth urban forest) actually is part of the museum and the museum experience.

The Fernbank Museum was designed and intended to be exactly where it is located right next to the historic Fernbank Forest.

The Fernbank Museum does not have to be moved for Atlanta to expand its cultural offerings to regional and international significance.

Atlanta can expand its cultural offerings to regional and global significance without moving the Fernbank Museum to another location… Which the Fernbank Museum isn’t moving and would never move to another location anyway for all of the important reasons offered on this thread.

Disagree. The provided locations would expand public draw significantly. Although I can understand ossified nostalgia causing some to endear the idea of its current location remaining forever and ever and ever…

As far as location and name, not following. Atlanta is named after the Atlantic Ocean amongst other things. Is the city located on the Atlantic?

[AtlJan]

Every amenity doesn't have to be of global significance. The Fernbank museum serves its community as it was intended. A walk in the woods is better for the mind and soul than a some huge big-ticket exhibit space somewhere else would be. Visit Local.

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by UrbanQuest

Disagree. The provided locations would expand public draw significantly. Although I can understand ossified nostalgia causing some to endear the idea of its current location remaining forever and ever and ever…

As far as location and name, not following. Atlanta is named after the Atlantic Ocean amongst other things. Is the city located on the Atlantic?

Oh, no you di'int. When backed into a corner by a horde of geriatrics, play the Ageism card.

And Atlanta isn't named for the Atlantic Ocean. It's a derivation of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, the city's raison d'etre.

Atlanta was originally founded as the terminus of a major state-sponsored railroad, but it soon became the convergence point among several railroads, spurring its rapid growth. The largest was the Western and Atlantic Railroad, from which the name "Atlanta" is derived, signifying the city's growing reputation as a major hub of transportation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta

[UrbanQuest]

Originally Posted by AtlJan

Every amenity doesn't have to be of global significance. The Fernbank museum serves its community as it was intended. A walk in the woods is better for the mind and soul than a some huge big-ticket exhibit space somewhere else would be. Visit Local.

Or something like this on Centennial or Piedmont Park. Are we kidding here?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scie...um_of_Virginia

[cwkimbro]

Originally Posted by UrbanQuest

Keep it where it is? Yawn if Atlanta has no interest in expanding its cultural offerings to regional significance, let alone global.

Urban,

You're making a faulty assumption here that the location is tied to the museums cultural significance.

The locations you listed and the difference with the current location have absolutely nothing to do with making Fernbank a bigger cultural offering of regional significance and has little to no impact of it's accessibility to the local population.

First, I think it is a cultural offering of regional significance already. It's in an area that has connections to what the area traditionally is and where we come from. It has a gorgeous location along a Olmstead linear park. It is also along what the primary route into the city was when Atlanta was in it's early years. Ponce/US78 was one of the primary route into Atlanta from the Eastern sea board as it connected to Decatur, which was the original town in the area.

It is a natural history museum with an educational mission. It is frequented by school groups that arrive via buses. Those need space. The natural history museum has a direct tie-in with the landscape that is the core to what our Natural history was. You see nothing other than Piedmont southern beauty were Fernbank is.

It has an Observatory connected to the adjacent Science Center and it needs that location not in the core. In fact that small forest is what is allowing us to have it work as close to the city as it is already.

If we want Fernbank to more significant than it already is, it really just needs a larger collection and more stories to tell.

Your angle on location is more about making it a tourist attraction and that doesn't have anything to do with it's cultural significance to the city.

I'd rather it be the best museum of Natural History that it can be within a great setting in the Piedmont for the region's educational mission, than trying to attract tourists taking a day off from Mega-Jam Dance contest where every little girl is a Platinum Grand Champion.

[cwkimbro]

Originally Posted by UrbanQuest

Or something like this on Centennial or Piedmont Park. Are we kidding here?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scie...um_of_Virginia

It is in walking distance to a McDonald's, an Aldi, the DMV, and an electrical substation.

If we are talking about location here, I think Fernbank is doing Great in it's mission to be a Natural History Museum.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B033'40.0%22N+77%C2%B027'57.0%22W/@37.5561529,-77.4664941,641a,35y,39.27t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d37.561111!4d-77.465833?hl=en&entry=ttu

[arjay57]

The last thing Piedmont Park needs is another car-oriented attraction.

Fernbank is in a fantastic location. Just leave it where it is and stick a fork in it.