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I spent hours roaming its exhibits over the years. The C.J. McElroy room was spectacular. Amongst the other numerous displays was the late Bill Quimby's lion from Zambia. Sad news. https://tucson.com/news/local/...b8-0ba93e117596.html https://www.kgun9.com/news/loc...-on-tucsons-westside . | ||
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SCI is moving to San Antonio. | |||
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Great city for sure and very pro hunting. | |||
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Bummer for me, we have always stopped to visit the museum any time we were traveling interstate 10, been through it 5-6 times over 25yrs. Hope they set it up again in San Antonio even though that's like 2.5x further from home for me... It's very nice. | |||
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HOLY SMOKES!! There has been No Communications to SCI Membership on this??!! I would expect the plan would be to relocate to San Antonio?? That said a new building may be more expensive than selling the Tuscon building??!! A major donor recently funded the new Hunters Embassy in Washington DC, the legislative affairs headquarters... lots of publicity!! I thought this was a bad idea in the 80s when I was a Chapter President and on the International Board, for 3 terms.I am one of 2 Board members who officially voted against the museum!! You would recognize the other if I leaked it!! My wife and I were wined and dined by another Washington state chapter president and his wife, the night before, to attempt to gain my vote!! They wanted it unanimous for MAC... We often met in McElroy's trophy room for meetings and dinner parties, so we all knew it well. A fantastic collection, no question!! My personal problem, as an old Corporate Controller type, I saw it as a ploy to preserve the President's personal trophy room with no major financial contribution to "his-" the Museum!! It is common for for major donors to provide funds for location and maintenance. His trophy room was moved and rebuilt as the centerpiece of the Museum. It was spectacular, and surroundings really made the museum a place to educate the public on the benefits of hunting to wildlife, no question!! Was it financially sustaining, I don't know?? Did it educate or convert non-hunter visitors? I don't know. It would be a crying shame not to retain the mounts and resurrect in San Antonio??!! I don't understand the move to San Antonio?? What the media doesn't say, the SCI HEADQUARTERS adjoined the Museum!! I am disappointed as I had been thinking about donating at least my life size mounts to the museum??...vs selling them at auction... and going to our charitable designees!!.... RN Nursing education and Cancer Research... Go Figure!! I will do some poking around with my current contacts... but everyone is getting ready for NASHVILLE Convention... 470EDDY | |||
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The move to San Antonio was announced. Some of the reasons are : San Antonio is more centrally located. Costs are substantially lower in San Antonio. The current building is quite old and has substantial issues which need to be addressed. San Antonio has a more educated population from which to draw employees. There was a very detailed analysis of the move before the decision was made . As I recall, the vote to move was unanimous. | |||
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I like the EDUCATED people part!  | |||
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