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Dear Yu-Ann:

One of the longest-running public private partnerships is here in New York
City.  Over 140 years ago the City of New York, envious of the superb
museums and performing arts organizations in cities like Boston,
Philadelphia, London, and Paris, decided to spur the development of its
cultural organizations by offering land, buildings, and some operating
support to private groups which would establish and operate museums and
other cultural activities in the City.  The American Museum of Natural
History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art were two of the early
organizations created by this offer.

Today New York City has 34 private organizations in these ongoing
partnerships with the City of New York, including the New York Hall of
Science, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, the Bronx Zoo, and Carnegie Hall.
While each institution has its own particular relationship with the City,
most are in City-owned buildings on City-owned land and receive operating
support ranging from a few percent to nearly half of their operating
budgets.  Each organization is a private, not-for-profit organization owned
and operated by a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees, which acquires and
owns any collections, sets policy, and employs the director and staff.  The
City may provide substantial funding for building renovations and
expansions, usually with cost-sharing provided by the organizations
themselves.

There are many advantages and many disadvantages to such partnerships, but
New York City would probably not have caught up with those other cities
without these partnerships.

More information can be found at the Department of Cultural Affairs of the
City of New York
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/funding/cityowned_inst.shtml and from the
Cultural Institutions Group, an organization representing the partnership
organizations, and currently chaired by Tom Finkelpearl, Executive Director
of the Queens Museum of Art.

Alan Friedman
(former chair of the Cultural Institutions Group)

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Date:    Tue, 8 May 2007 21:40:00 +0800
From:    Wang Yu-Ann <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Public Private Partnerships

ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
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Hello everyone,

Does anyone here know of science centers/museums that are funded/operatin=
g on Public-Private Partnership (PPP)?  We're doing a study on this and a=
ny feedback and advice will be greatly appreciated!


Many thanks and Best regards,
Yu-Ann Wang
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