Museum of the City of New York the incoming administration of Michael Bloomberg, which decided to use the Courthouse as the headquarters for the new New York City Department of Education, causing MCNY's then-director Robert R. McDonald to tender his resignation. McDonald was replaced in 2002 by Susan Henshaw Jones, who was at the time the president of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. There was also an attempt to merge the museum with the New-York Historical Society, which did not come to fruition, and the museum was passed over for space at Ground Zero. The Museum's former director, Susan Henshaw Jones, recommitted MCNY to its
Open Museum Open Museum Open Museum is a participatory exhibit space for fine artists, art museums, and art enthusiasts. Also a not-for-profit digital outreach tool for artists and museums, its purpose is to help make the arts more accessible to everyone and support museums in engaging people around their collections. Visitors can explore Open Museum through Objects, Museums, or People. Open Museum also offers educational and inspirational games for art and museum lovers, such as The Association Game (t.a.g.), which everyone is welcome to watch, but only members can participate in. Open Museum is a kind of “Facebook meets Blogger and Flickr