MoMath, the Museum of Math, Planned for New York

It’s still a difficult period for museums, with endowments still down from their peak in 2007 and cutbacks and layoffs remain a regular occurrence. Case in point, the recent news that the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has been forced to cut 10 staff positions and somehow trim $1.4 million from their budget. Despite those industry warnings and woes, there’s a push to bring a new museum to New York, the MoMath, dedicated to “the wonders of mathematics and its connections with art, science and finance.”