[finnsheep]

This museum houses the largest collection of American spinning wheels anywhere, as well as weaving and fiber processing equipment including the marvelous textile machines of the late 1800's.

[ikka]

* Using a portion of the museum's 161,000-square-feet in a for-profit capacity. Smith declined to elaborate, but said the museum has about 35,000-square-feet that could be used for such a purpose.

Sounds like a plan! At $10 a square foot it would make a big dent in any shortfall.

[camle]

so nobody wants to see it. why should the government take money from taxpayers for something the taxpayers don't want or need? if it closes, it closes.

[mallardx]

Ahhh, Lowell, Mass, the ARMPIT of America