MiSci continues renovations as summer classes begin at Schenectady museum | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY Summer classes for children started Monday at miSci, a continuing sign of the pandemic yielding to normalcy at a museum where change is continuing in waves.
New classroom and auditorium space await arriving children, and renovations that are still underway will create additional educational space.
The long-term exhibits have given way to a regularly changing series of temporary exhibits, with a greater sense of openness on the floor and a significant hands-on educational component. The old favorites are still on-site, and will reappear in public view periodically as part of those rotating exhibits.
Electric City Archives: Dudley Observatory settles into new home at Siena | The Daily Gazette
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The Dudley Observatory s original home in 1856 was this structure in Albany s Goat Hill. Inset: Bill Buell
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I love museums, libraries and academic institutions of all sorts. My favorite is probably the New York State Museum in Albany, but give me a day at the Albany Institute of History and Art and I’ll be very happy there, too.
In Schenectady, we are fortunate to have a wonderful place like the Museum of Science and Innovation, also known as miSci, and while the facility shut down Wednesday, for a time to help the cause in the fight against COVID-19, it is on stable footing and not going anywhere. The Schenectady County Historical Society and the Efner History Center at City Hall are two more stable and popular destinations for those delving into local history, and while the Edison Tech Center and the Tribes Hill Heritage Center don’t have