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
Museum of the Slovak Village Museum of the Slovak Village The large open-air Museum of the Slovak Village (in Slovak: "Múzeum slovenskej dediny") is situated on the outskirts of the northern city of Martin in Slovakia. The first idea of the open-air museum was put forward by Ján Geryk, the SNM secretary, on 16th April 1931 and it was thought to be built in Opleta. The museum was planned around Scandinavian designs of open-air museums and was mentioned to be real-life place for whole families: they would live and work there "in the old way of life". Finally, the museum was established in the 1961,