Museums Deal with Bad Governors, Economic Pressures, and Fire Sales

The museum suffering continues across the country and here are three particular pieces we’ve run across. First, as if the good people of Illinois didn’t already have enough to hate Governor Rod Blagojevich for, Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications, which feels like it’s been under construction since the dawn of man, has announced that it is being forced to sell its almost-finished building because the Governor never delivered on his promise to fund the museum with $8 million dollars.