Museum Destroys $23k Student Donation

[editor]

A bunch of high school students in Arizona spent three years and $23,000 building a civil war diorama for the Texas Military Forces Museum in Austin. When it was delivered, the museum had it destroyed. Strange way to say "thanks."

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[OkieEric]

A bunch of high school students in Arizona spent three years and $23,000 building a civil war diorama for the Texas Military Forces Museum in Austin. When it was delivered, the museum had it destroyed. Strange way to say "thanks."

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Sheesh...you have to wonder about people sometimes. So I guess the museum's options were:

1.) Display, or

2.) Destroy

Couldn't they have just sent it back?? lol... Interesting that they had based their "historically inaccurate" diorama on the museum director's own book

[TJones]

Sheesh...you have to wonder about people sometimes. So I guess the museum's options were:

1.) Display, or

2.) Destroy

Couldn't they have just sent it back?? lol... Interesting that they had based their "historically inaccurate" diorama on the museum director's own book

That would mean his book is incorrect. Nice job Mr.Hunt, here's your sign.

[Mark F. Barnes]

Hunt should be relieved of his duties. Also Rodriguez for turning a deaf ear, what an outrage!!!!!!!!!!!

[memebag]

Does anyone know how "inaccurate" it was? Perhaps it was so horribly wrong that any sane person would have been compelled to take an axe to it. For instance, do we know for a fact that the soldiers weren't suspended in jars of urine?

[OkieEric]

Does anyone know how "inaccurate" it was? Perhaps it was so horribly wrong that any sane person would have been compelled to take an axe to it. For instance, do we know for a fact that the soldiers weren't suspended in jars of urine?

LOL, that'd be an interesting piece of "art"... Looking at the original work, how inaccurate could it possibly be? Did they have the little guys on the wrong side? Is the boat headed the wrong way?

[sevfiv]

Not too much detail in the picture, but even if there were leprechauns fighting, Hunt should have been more thoughtful about his actions...

[BryanS]

Another picture of it. What is this? A bunch of bodies on the ground? This looks worse than a second grade science fair project.

[sevfiv]

That's after the dismantling - it doesn't look nearly as torn up as i imagined

[CDeb]

Another picture of it. What is this? A bunch of bodies on the ground? This looks worse than a second grade science fair project.

That photo was taken after the "dismantling."

it doesn't look nearly as torn up as i imagined

Creating, painting and placing the figures was probably the most time-consuming part of the work.

[cnote]

Seems that Mr. Hunt should have to put it back together...from the photos I think it could be done.

[TJones]

Seems that Mr. Hunt should have to put it back together...from the photos I think it could be done.

Surely, the kids and the school have a BEFORE picture for reference, and for when they take Mr. Hunt to court over this matter. I see it as willful destruction of property. I guess it just depends on how the work was given or loaned to the Museum. I hope Mr. Hunt just sends it back to them, he doesn't deserve it now. Mr. Hunt should get the "Jackass of The Year" honor.

[VicMan]

If the above accounts are correct, Hunt needs to suffer from the effects of his decision. He ought to at least lose his job.

Edited February 15, 2008 by VicMan

[Original Timmy Chan's]

Not too much detail in the picture, but even if there were leprechauns fighting, Hunt should have been more thoughtful about his actions...

I don't know about the historical inaccuracies, but anyone who's been to Brownsville or elsewhere in the RGV know that the mountains painted in the background are just *slightly* geographically inaccurate!

[Mark F. Barnes]

Well just got response from the Governor's office, if that's what you want to call it.

See attachment, guess we will have to take it up a notch.

[pineda]

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