Posted August 9, 200519 yr From the 8/7/05 AP: Science center to focus more on education The Associated Press CLEVELAND - Education will become the main focus of the Great Lakes Science Center as officials try to improve the museum's financial outlook and give it a stronger presence in the community. The new plan was formulated after the 2004-2005 year became the center's first to show a budget deficit... http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050807/NEWS01/508070372/1056/rss02
August 10, 200519 yr From the 8/9/05 PD: Science center grinds off staff jobs as it shifts gears New hiring to target education specialists Tuesday, August 09, 2005 Susan Ruiz Patton Plain Dealer Reporter The Great Lakes Science Center has cut nearly three dozen workers from its staff as part of a plan to shift its focus from exhibits to education. Half the affected employees were sent home Monday morning. Many of the rest will stay five weeks more -- roughly the remainder of the blockbuster Body Worlds exhibit. A handful will stay a little longer. The departments affected include security, admissions, facilities and operations... To reach this Plain Dealer reporter: [email protected], 216-999-4937 http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/112358001727760.xml&coll=2
July 21, 200717 yr cleveland.com: City planners question plan to link Science Center to Mather Posted by Tom Breckenridge July 20, 2007 16:56PM Categories: Breaking News The Great Lakes Science Center wants to build a 400-foot-long link to a floating museum nearby, but city planners fear it could stymie bikers and joggers in the North Coast Harbor. The Cleveland City Planning Commission approved the idea of a $3.3 million walkway from the science center to the Steamship William G. Mather Maritime Museum... http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/07/city_planners_question_plan_to.html
May 28, 200916 yr Maybe it's not a bad thing if the visitors' center is relocated to the GLSC--just hope it isn't crammed in there. Too bad nothing new can be built or expanded. The visitor's center is greatly under-utilized in its current location anyways. NASA Glenn visitor center could close or have a new home later this year by Tom Breckenridge/Plain Dealer Reporter Wednesday May 27, 2009, 6:00 PM BROOK PARK -- The NASA Glenn visitor center, host to three decades of wide-eyed wonder about space and flight, could close or have a new home later this year. It could also stay right where it is on the center's sprawling Brook Park campus -- if NASA Glenn can find new partners and money to plug a funding gap. More at http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2009/05/nasa_glenn_visitor_center_coul.html
July 16, 200915 yr NASA Glenn visitors center will close; exhibits offered to Great Lakes Science Center Thursday, July 16, 2009 Tom Breckenridge Plain Dealer Reporter The NASA Glenn Visitors Center will close and its exhibits have been offered to the Great Lakes Science Center, NASA Glenn's director says. A tightening budget and the need to lift NASA Glenn's profile are reasons the 6,000-square-foot center must shut its doors, said Woodrow Whitlow, director of the NASA Glenn Research Center in Brook Park. More info at Cleveland.com: http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1247733104222090.xml&coll=2
July 16, 200915 yr This is really a shame, I think. It would've been nice to have a small exhibit at the Science Center, but directing visitors there to the actual full-scale visitors' center at Glenn. But this could actually be a good change.
July 16, 200915 yr Quote from article: "It's amazing to me the numbers of people who don't know there's a NASA center in their community," This is pretty typical as to how disenfranchised so may people are with their city/region and what it offers. Yes, Jpop, it could actually be a good thing to direct more people downtown. Let's hope.
January 28, 201015 yr NASA Glenn Center move to Science Center a 'done deal' CLEVELAND -- NASA Glenn's Research/Visitor Center and the Great Lakes Science Center have signed a 10-year deal, moving the NASA facility to and making it part of the Great Lakes Science Center. The $3 million development is expected to open in 2011. About 20 exhibits will be moved to the center and installed in March, 2010. http://www.wkyc.com/news/education/education_article.aspx?storyid=129778&catid=35
June 23, 201014 yr This is the only GLSC thread I could find--I hope I'm not causing a headache but here it goes: 1) Could we rename this thread "Cleveland: Great Lakes Science Center News and Exhibits" or even "Great Lakes Science Center/NASA Glenn Visitor's Center News and Exhibits." 2) Since the NASA Glenn Visitors Center is now inside the GLSC, maybe we can merge some of the posts regarding the move and relocation to this thread... http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,3352.30.html (posts 49-57) Anyways...looks like having NASA on the lakefront is really paying off: Skylab space capsule lands at Cleveland's Great Lakes Science Center Published: Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 11:00 PM Liz Navratil, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio — The capsule used in the Skylab 3 space mission traveled 24.5 million miles, setting a record 37 years ago. Tuesday, the capsule traveled 13 miles to become the centerpiece of NASA's Glenn Visitor Center at its new location in the Great Lakes Science Center. NASA announced in January that it was moving its visitor center from its Brook Park facility to the downtown museum so more people could access it. Over the last four months, pieces of exhibits -- such as shuttle and rocket models -- have been transported to the science center. "In the first two months [downtown], more people have seen these artifacts than would see them at Glenn in a year," said Howard Ross, associate director of planning and evaluation for the Glenn Research Center. "We wanted to make people more aware of NASA." http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/06/skylab_space_capsule_lands_at.html
January 29, 201114 yr This should be a good draw: Cleveland: Facing Mars exhibit opens at the Great Lakes Science Center There are 28 exhibits on display including, Walking on Mars, a chance for visitors to experience the feeling of reduced gravity; Mars Meteorite, where you can examine a real Mars meteorite; and Spinning Chair where visitors will experience the effects of motion sickneess. http://www.wkyc.com/news/education/education_article.aspx?storyid=172263&catid=35
January 24, 20241 yr they are trying to make the glss’s doppleganger aka the liberty science center in nj into a zoomer nightlife magnet — why not it seems like a fine enough idea — wondering do they do anything like this at the glss? https://lsc.org/explore/lsc-after-dark?fbclid=PAAaaU9kSY68cepAlwFDqNTNz7sNEU55B7TjdZNMWnBX4m7BUS2nW4Mug445M_aem_AftPNy3HuOe4iwwrBoGc45NxYQBMZIG-opnnGVdxT8-nQ3PqwJ1p6PdnQhfMKjwV_hvn1svg5pXpk_y7wdeu4M2A
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