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KCUR: Consultants Recommend Temporarily Closing Kansas City's American Jazz Museum
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Consultants hired by the Kansas City Council to assess the wellbeing of the American Jazz Museum on Monday recommended closing the museum temporarily.
The museum, according to the consultants' report, is "in need of complete rethinking, akin to starting a new museum." The report called for a "complete rebirth, starting with its leadership, but continuing with a revamped financial model, visitor experience, and operational infrastructure."
City Council members had requested this evaluation in October, after months of challenges at the museum, including a $1 million deficit.
The 62-page report, prepared by Museum Management Consultants, Inc., focused on areas such as vision, visitor experience, collections, business model, organizational structure and leadership.
Its assessment of the museum's vision: "Despite being open for 20 years, AJM lacks a clearly defined vision and identity."
Regarding visitor experience: "The visitor experience is seen as stale and offering little to entice repeat visits ... AJM is static and uninspiring, which is particularly surprising given the dynamic story that underpins its mission."
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Bet ole rev car wash is shitting his pants right now, all his crony friends are gonna be out of work!
ReplyDeleteEverything the cleave is involved in turns to shit so just add this to a long list of screwups
“In response, Councilman Jermaine Reed wrote: "It is important to note and heartening to understand that ... stakeholders are very interested in sustaining the AJM organization."
ReplyDeleteBut, Reed added, "I strongly recommend that we not close the AJM in its entirety during this important inflection point. Ensuring the museum remains an active partner in the 18th & Vine District ... ensures more inclusive community involvement and engagement with the strategic planning process."”
The council hires, yes spends taxpayers dollars for the study and then Reed suggests not following their recommendations.
It is obvious he is not looking out for the KC taxpayers. Instead he looking out for his “friends” at the district who are and have been lining their pockets with taxpayers dollars.
Where’s the outrage?
needs mo mony, lots mo, needs nother lection fo mo mony, come on white folks, we needs mo mony
ReplyDeleteMausoleum rather than museum would be more like reality. Jazz was a vibrant force 80 yrs ago here. Now its time to put up just an historical marker.
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No need to reopen the jazz place.
However, I think it would be easy to find alternative funding for the baseball museum which is not only self sustaining but also a great tourist attraction.
At best this is the "Half The History Of American Jazz Museum", almost totally ignoring the contributions of non-African American Musicians.
ReplyDeleteKansas City's Jazz Heritage is much less that it has been mythologized as, we were primarily a stop-over in both the New Orleans-Chicago and New York-Los Angeles rail routes for jazzmen.
Get off the train, play a few gigs, pick up a few bucks, go someplace where the music was alive. Any artists getting their start here had to leave to go to a place where Jazz was alive to achieve any renown at all.
It was doomed to mediocracy from the start, with probably the best example of that being the instance of Cleaver sending Jimmie Treat to Europe to spend $250,000 on a Plastic Saxophone that Charlie Parker never played in performance! And the place has gone downhill from there! Expenses, especially salaries, have never been questioned, (and have been lavish,) Managerial failures have no consequences, and the expertise necessary to run a Convenience Store has been sadly lacking.
Close it, heal the open wound on the City Treasury, and try to spend the money on useful things for the Minority Community.
Oh, and Reverends, Sirs, this closure of this farce could provide money for new Street Name Signs, if they are ever needed - just saying.
Now the grifters are spending money on consultants? Great, more money wasted there. I hope they at least told them the truth and said just about anything run by black people is doomed to failure. That said, no way they'll shut it down. Too many kickbacks, too many people making high salaries they don't deserve.
ReplyDeleteJazz isn't dead it just smells funny.
ReplyDeleteDon't blame black people for the failure of the AJM. Anyone can screw up this type of operation. Management may not have the tools to make good decisions regarding budgeting, etc. The city cannot shut it down just because it's being mismanaged, and the black community will not allow advice from white folks due to fear of a takeover. Stalemate.
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