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I don't know what's more gobsmacking and unforgivable, this or the UArts collapse. Like, truly, incompetent management and bad boards and vampiric consultants are such a goddamn problem in the non-profit world

Bradford Pearson@bradfordpearson.bsky.social

Decades of financial mismanagement. Leadership that never seemed to truly understand the museum and its audience. A study that—shockingly—recommended ripping out all the dinosaur exhibits. Kyle Bagenstose delivers the story that I've been waiting to read about the Academy of Natural Sciences.

phillymag.comFight at the Museum: Inside the Collapse of the Academy of Natural Sciences“This is 50-plus years in the making.” Can anything still save the beloved Philadelphia institution?

21/10/26, 7:43 pm1 repost6 likes

Bradford Pearson

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We've certainly had our pick of collapses to write about here lately: Philly Pops, UArts, PMA, World Cafe Live, Academy of Natural Sciences. It's become a joke at Philly Mag that it's all we do, but the stories are always so good because sources just want to talk about how badly someone fucked up.