It's a crying shame a place so awesome, has to be saved. I wish I could do more. All the best TMM, all the best
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Sharon Brady
12 years ago
This is more important than salary raises.
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Sharon Brady
12 years ago
This is more important than salary raises.
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Elizabeth T. Andrews
12 years ago
The University of Texas, my alma mater, continues to cut funding for substantive programs and initiatives. If the current trends continue, UT will have tremendous difficulty continuing to claim an outstanding academic reputation. Protect the history and quality of the University of Texas for future generations!
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Robert Alvarado
12 years ago
When I first came to Texas in 1992, my daughter was a UT student and she introduce us to this museum. My first impression was one of wonder. This museum compared favorably to the Museum of Natural History in New York City. IT IS A SMALLER VERSION OF THE NEW YORK MUSEUM. i HAVE ALWAYS RECOMMENDED THIS TEXAS MUSEUM TO ALL OF MY VISITING FRIENDS AND RELATIVES. THIS WOULD BE A TEXAS TRAGEDY TO LOSE THIS GEM. IT WOULD BE LIKE STOPPING FUNDING TO THE UT FOOTBALL TEAM AND STADIUM.
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Brenda Alvarado
12 years ago
TMM is my faorite museum in Austin. It's a shame that its funding has been cut. In really needs some marketing and an entrance fee that can help sustain it. It's much more impressive than other cash driven attractions in Austin, but remains largely under stated.
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Kevin Koch
12 years ago
The museum is a key part of the historic campus, and covers subject matter missing in any other austin Museum. I loved visiting and will miss the identification days. If anything it should receive additional funding to heighten its potential tie-ins with the work that happens at the university. Can we not add a nickel to football ticket prices and save this museum?
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Anonymous
12 years ago
Love this museum much more than Bullock which has few items but lots of hype. This is a museum's museum..save it please!
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Carol Schlenk
12 years ago
As someone who grew up in Austin enjoying the "Museum with the horse statues," I hate the idea of the Texas Memorial Museum disappearing. Local educators and students in the Austin area need all the wonderful museum resources they can get and this one has been a part of that scene for a very long time now. Please keep it open for all to enjoy.
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Jane Genthe
12 years ago
I love the Texas Memorial Museum and have been going to it since the mid-seventies, soon after I moved to Austin.. Please don't cut the funding and the staff so that it won't be available to the public as much as it should be. It i s something to be proud of. I saw my first collection of gems and minerals at the museum, and my first Native American exhibit there, along with other wonderful displays. Please don't harm the museum and the public by making such a paltry sum of funding unavailable. The museum is so educational and such a delight that it is almost a crime to not fund it and keep a staff available to run it on a regular basis. I was at the museum on Saturday, 3-1-2014, and there were hundreds of young people there on every floor and around every exhibit. The entire crowd of youngsters were enjoying all the exhibits, crowding around, looking and pointing and exclaiming about the wonderful things they were seeing. Funding the museum is so important because it enriches the minds of anyone who goes and sees the exhibits. It was so exciting to see everyone at the museum enjoying everything the museum had to offer. It would be a crime to make it less available to the public. Please keep the staff already there an don't cut the money. Keep what we already have and don't take from it. It is too important for the education and the enjoyment of the public. I am proud of the museum and proud to take anyone there to see it, and would enjoy it even more knowing it will remain as is if the funding is not cut. I implore the powers that be to continue the funding and keep the staff and keep funding the museum as it already is. Don't let us lose such a wonderful institution and mind-enriching to everyone who goes to see it.
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Jean Nance
12 years ago
I am a UT alumnus, and have brought children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews to the TMM for many years. It is the single best way for children, and the general public, to interact with, and appreciate, all that a university like UT should represent. For mercy's sake, it's only $620,000, which is a drop in the bucket of the assets available to UT! Other parts of UT (hello, Jackson School and sports, i.e., football?) should be the first to step up to support something like this. UT should not be a series of little fiefdoms, each only concerned with their own spheres, but a community of mutually-supportive educational enterprises. Or have the "powers" that be completely forgotten what a university is supposed to be about, anyway?
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Anonymous
12 years ago
UT has so much money, where are its priorities to want to cut the funding to this museum?
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Miriam McKinney
12 years ago
Great museum. It should remain a part of the university!
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Marilou Schmidt
12 years ago
It breaks my heart to think I may not have the opportunity to share these treasures with my daughter.
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tony oppie
12 years ago
what a gem this museum is and attraction...maybe it can be funded by the hyper inflated football budget?
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Kerry Edwards
12 years ago
An Austin treasure, and a great way to get kids onto UT campus at an early age thinking "college must be so cool, I want to go to this one someday". Why defund such a great early recruiting asset?
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Ross harper
12 years ago
Please keep this important museum funded!
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clay m. hunn
12 years ago
I love this museum! The University needs to fully fund this educational treasure.
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wayne bartholomew
12 years ago
The deconstruction of this institution has very troubling implications in terms of who gets to determine what is important and what is not relative to research and educational collections.
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Sandy Bootz
12 years ago
Austin NEEDS this museum! Children, parents, teenagers and grandparents enjoy this museum. Please save it for the greater good!
It's a crying shame a place so awesome, has to be saved. I wish I could do more. All the best TMM, all the best
This is more important than salary raises.
This is more important than salary raises.
The University of Texas, my alma mater, continues to cut funding for substantive programs and initiatives. If the current trends continue, UT will have tremendous difficulty continuing to claim an outstanding academic reputation. Protect the history and quality of the University of Texas for future generations!
When I first came to Texas in 1992, my daughter was a UT student and she introduce us to this museum. My first impression was one of wonder. This museum compared favorably to the Museum of Natural History in New York City. IT IS A SMALLER VERSION OF THE NEW YORK MUSEUM. i HAVE ALWAYS RECOMMENDED THIS TEXAS MUSEUM TO ALL OF MY VISITING FRIENDS AND RELATIVES. THIS WOULD BE A TEXAS TRAGEDY TO LOSE THIS GEM. IT WOULD BE LIKE STOPPING FUNDING TO THE UT FOOTBALL TEAM AND STADIUM.
TMM is my faorite museum in Austin. It's a shame that its funding has been cut. In really needs some marketing and an entrance fee that can help sustain it. It's much more impressive than other cash driven attractions in Austin, but remains largely under stated.
The museum is a key part of the historic campus, and covers subject matter missing in any other austin Museum. I loved visiting and will miss the identification days. If anything it should receive additional funding to heighten its potential tie-ins with the work that happens at the university. Can we not add a nickel to football ticket prices and save this museum?
Love this museum much more than Bullock which has few items but lots of hype. This is a museum's museum..save it please!
As someone who grew up in Austin enjoying the "Museum with the horse statues," I hate the idea of the Texas Memorial Museum disappearing. Local educators and students in the Austin area need all the wonderful museum resources they can get and this one has been a part of that scene for a very long time now. Please keep it open for all to enjoy.
I love the Texas Memorial Museum and have been going to it since the mid-seventies, soon after I moved to Austin.. Please don't cut the funding and the staff so that it won't be available to the public as much as it should be. It i s something to be proud of. I saw my first collection of gems and minerals at the museum, and my first Native American exhibit there, along with other wonderful displays. Please don't harm the museum and the public by making such a paltry sum of funding unavailable. The museum is so educational and such a delight that it is almost a crime to not fund it and keep a staff available to run it on a regular basis. I was at the museum on Saturday, 3-1-2014, and there were hundreds of young people there on every floor and around every exhibit. The entire crowd of youngsters were enjoying all the exhibits, crowding around, looking and pointing and exclaiming about the wonderful things they were seeing. Funding the museum is so important because it enriches the minds of anyone who goes and sees the exhibits. It was so exciting to see everyone at the museum enjoying everything the museum had to offer. It would be a crime to make it less available to the public. Please keep the staff already there an don't cut the money. Keep what we already have and don't take from it. It is too important for the education and the enjoyment of the public. I am proud of the museum and proud to take anyone there to see it, and would enjoy it even more knowing it will remain as is if the funding is not cut. I implore the powers that be to continue the funding and keep the staff and keep funding the museum as it already is. Don't let us lose such a wonderful institution and mind-enriching to everyone who goes to see it.
I am a UT alumnus, and have brought children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews to the TMM for many years. It is the single best way for children, and the general public, to interact with, and appreciate, all that a university like UT should represent. For mercy's sake, it's only $620,000, which is a drop in the bucket of the assets available to UT! Other parts of UT (hello, Jackson School and sports, i.e., football?) should be the first to step up to support something like this. UT should not be a series of little fiefdoms, each only concerned with their own spheres, but a community of mutually-supportive educational enterprises. Or have the "powers" that be completely forgotten what a university is supposed to be about, anyway?
UT has so much money, where are its priorities to want to cut the funding to this museum?
Great museum. It should remain a part of the university!
It breaks my heart to think I may not have the opportunity to share these treasures with my daughter.
what a gem this museum is and attraction...maybe it can be funded by the hyper inflated football budget?
An Austin treasure, and a great way to get kids onto UT campus at an early age thinking "college must be so cool, I want to go to this one someday". Why defund such a great early recruiting asset?
Please keep this important museum funded!
I love this museum! The University needs to fully fund this educational treasure.
The deconstruction of this institution has very troubling implications in terms of who gets to determine what is important and what is not relative to research and educational collections.
Austin NEEDS this museum! Children, parents, teenagers and grandparents enjoy this museum. Please save it for the greater good!