Museum of Street Culture

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Museum of Street Culture

Postby tamtagon » 17 Feb 2017 09:28

This deal was almost toast, but the Presbyterians managed to save it. By the sound of it, Dallas is getting something truly special, that doesn't need all the civic boosters telling us over and over again how special it is.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2 ... 8-park-ave

A $2 million gift for Museum of Street Culture that's taking root in Dallas' historic 508 Park Ave.

by Robert Wilonsky, City Columnist

The years-in-the-making Museum of Street Culture in downtown Dallas is now $2.1 million closer toward raising the $18 million it needs to open its doors in 2018 ... the Moody Foundation is providing the sizable grant ... the Moody grant pushes the capital campaign just past the $10 million mark.

Designer Adrien Gardère, whose work includes the Louvre-Lens Museum in France and the renovation of the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, has also signed on to help design the museum.

... the museum has partnered with the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, Sony Music and others on various exhibitions and projects ... also talking with London-based Ace Records about installing a 78-rpm recording studio in 508 Park Ave.


I'm interested to follow potential bright ideas to the music scene in Dallas from the new spotlight this place will put on the history of music in Dallas. Western Swing lives on with the Rockabilly crowd but Jazz & Blues never seems to have returned, Badu being the monumental exception - 'cept this is "only" her home, not her music scene.... What would happen if the music students at UNT thought-on origins and mash-ups from the Bohemian Oompah, Mexican Conjunto, Western Swing and Deep Ellum Jazz & Blues. Maybe something new would come out of it.

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Re: Museum of Street Culture

Postby jrd1964 » 19 Feb 2017 14:57

A nice addition to downtown--as long as there is some kind of coexistance with the existing street culture that has been a fixture along Park Ave. for years. Just as with the nearby upcoming Scion hotel, some kind of security might have to be considered/implemented.

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Re: Museum of Street Culture

Postby buildingswithlegs » 19 Feb 2017 19:21

fantastic architect! really exciting project

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Re: Museum of Street Culture

Postby ArtVandelay » 20 Feb 2017 17:03

Just wait for the permanent supportive housing the Presbyterians are building over there. Over $200,000 a unit!

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Re: Museum of Street Culture

Postby dukemeredith » 08 Mar 2017 11:43

Two articles have been published today about the Museum opening this fall:

Star-Telegram
http://www.star-telegram.com/living/art ... 91108.html

D Magazine
https://www.dmagazine.com/arts-entertai ... core-park/

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Re: Museum of Street Culture

Postby joshua.dodd » 08 Mar 2017 17:47

Wow. I just looked at the plans. This project is going to utterly transform this area.

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Postby exelone31 » 08 Mar 2017 21:54

I'm interested to see how this unfolds. The plans look amazing, and it'll be great to have this activity tie together a rapidly-developing area of the CBD.

I haven't seen things like the Stewpot integrated into art/museum space before, so I'm curious what the results will be. Will this be something that's a huge, popular success, or something that has more of a niche audience? Neither outcome is necessarily better than the other, just wondering how it unfolds.

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Re: Museum of Street Culture

Postby willyk » 08 Mar 2017 22:09

Somebody please fill me in-- were the Museum and Stewpot conceived as intentional neighbors, or are they reluctant roommates?

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Re: Museum of Street Culture

Postby Tivo_Kenevil » 08 Mar 2017 23:12

I'm suspect about this being home run. We shall see.

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Re: Museum of Street Culture

Postby mdg109 » 09 Mar 2017 12:12

In the renderings, they've included the space between the museum and the masonic temple to be developed, which is cool. It also looks like they made Park Ave pedestrian-only. I'm not sure if this means The Stewpot will move their services to another street.

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Re: Museum of Street Culture

Postby joshua.dodd » 09 Mar 2017 12:34

^^ I believe that will be inevitable for this project to work. They need to move it, anyhow.

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Re: Museum of Street Culture

Postby tamtagon » 09 Mar 2017 12:35

Isn't a non-profit collective moving into the Masonic Temple? In the faint memory of a memory I have, the non-profit collective would have a symbiotic relationship with the Stewpot AND Museum, is that right?

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Re: Museum of Street Culture

Postby tamtagon » 13 Jul 2022 19:52

How's this place doing?

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Re: Museum of Street Culture

Postby undefinedprocess » 02 Aug 2022 18:12

tamtagon wrote:How's this place doing?

Recently stumbled across this project again after years of it sitting forgotten... Does anyone know anything about this thing?