Author: Sean McCaughan

Over last weekend, an event appeared on Facebook purporting to offer discounted admission to the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, which opened this Monday. With no official affiliation to the Frost, spelling and grammatical errors galore, a connection to a strange foundation, and a request for money to be transferred directly to someone's personal account on a mobile payments app, it immediately looked suspicious. Yet over a hundred people had responded that they were attending. How many actually sent money via the app is unknown.

A few newsworthy things for the day:

Check out the humpity Hump Day news update:

It's Tuesday-Newsdsay, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck:

Okay, first thing, right off the bat, let's just admit the elephant in the blog. It's no wonder the brand new Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science almost went extravagantly broke and had to be bailed out during construction both by its namesake philanthropists and the government. This place is spectacular, and when it comes to science, technology, and architecture, the three aspects of the museum that really blow you away, being spectacular is always expensive. Really expensive. Other issues, of course, included problems with the contractors, a well-meaning staff that may have been in over their heads coming from such a significantly smaller institution, and others that have been covered in the media. But holy shit all that money made a great museum.

Humpy, happy Monday everyone. Here's the news:

The brand-spanking new PAMM App was launched today and has lots of neat stuff, including exhibition audio tours, contextual multimedia content to learn more about the art on display at the museum, unique content related to special exhibitions, and a calendar of the museum's upcoming events at the Perez Art Museum Miami. The app is beautifully made and pretty fantastic.

News, news, glorious news:

Thursday was one looooong day, and here's the news:

Rumor is they want to demolish or sell it.