Talk:Museum of History & Industry

Architect

Paul Thiry (architect) a well known modernist seems to have been the architect for one of the buildings. Can something on this be added? Is it the Aviation museum building? I had trouble following the History section to sort out what was built, where, when. Thanks. ChildofMidnight (talk) 22:30, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Jeff Bezos Donation

It's probably relevant enough to include the $10 million donation Jeff Bezos gave the museum last week, although I'm not sure how to work that in. It's the largest donation ever received by the museum (and apparently puts me within 3-4 handshakes of the guy: friend of my cousin met his wife the day before and/or him?) --Draco18s (talk) 03:52, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Governance Section

I removed the two sections on Audience and Organizational structure. Not only were they both outdated, but they also seemed incoherent with the format of similar museum pages. A future governance section, regarding the management structure of the organization (board, etc.) and various collection ownership information seems more appropriate and should be added in the future. JoshMahar (talk) 22:58, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Recentism

As discussed in Wikipedia:Recentism, Wikipedia is not a news and current events site, and it should take a broad view of history, rather than focus only on the present. MOHAI was a Seattle fixture for 60 years in the Montlake location, and we should not skimp on our coverage of that, even it if it is gone now and replaced with a new and different building. That's one reason for including the old and new photos of the Boeing mail plane. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 23:14, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Dennis, I'm not sure this really fits as Wikipedia:Recentism. As an encylopedia, this article is intended to inform people about what MOHAI is and does currently. It is entirely appropriate to talk about the museum's previous iterations in the history section. It would also be appropriate to include photos of the Montlake building and historic exhibition displays in the history section. However, the MOHAI at Montlake is no longer an existing entity. This page is to inform people about the current museum known as MOHAI. Including outdated displays would be confusing if not classified in the history section. If you feel that MOHAI at Montlake deserves more attention, feel free to expand the history section or add additional sections about the old building. JoshMahar (talk) 20:09, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

An encyclopedia exists to inform people what a museum does currently? Like a visitors guide? What's your basis for this definition of an encyclopedia? --Dennis Bratland (talk) 23:05, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Name of this organization

The current title of this article is "Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI)". That does not seem like an official name. They seem to just go by MOHAI, although the title on their website frontpage calls the organization "MOHAI Museum of History & Industry".

I am not ready to propose a name change but I think that this article could named simply MOHAI. Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:30, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Their website mostly prefers MOHAI, but at the top of the page their logo has MOHAI with Museum of History and Industry right below it, and at the bottom of the page is their street address with the name fully spelled out. Note also the Privacy Page: The policies below are applicable to the mohai.org website ("Website") produced and maintained by the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) or "we", "us", or "our". I think it's still their official name.

I also don't favor page moves when the subject has been known by the other name for many years. Rebranding doesn't change WP:COMMONNAME. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 16:44, 10 January 2015 (UTC)