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General Systems In The News
Berkshire Museum Reopening Features New
Feigenbaum Hall of Innovation
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April 14. 2008 – The General Systems Company, Inc. – Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Executive director Stuart Chase proudly presided over the reopening of Pittsfield’s renovated Berkshire Museum showing off it’s newest addition, the $1.2 million Feigenbaum Hall of Innovation and unveiling a $3.3 million climate control system for the museum that will not only make it more comfortable in the summer but will enable it to display items that in the past were denied the facility because of inadequate environmental controls.
The new 3,000 square foot Feigenbaum Hall is a gallery of invention, cultural evolution and social history that has a strong Berkshire focus, from Shaker history to modern day contributions to the arts, such as those of movie special effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull. The Hall of Innovation is named for Pittsfield entrepreneurs Donald and Armand v. Feigenbaum, who have enjoyed world-wide business success. A reception was held on March 27 for donors and museum members that featured the presentation of a formal commemoration of the Feigenbaums’ contribution to innovation in America as bestowed by Dr. Feigenbaum’s alma mater, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The presentation was given to the Feigenbaums by Director Stuart Chase -- to be permanently documented as an embossed certificate (click here to see text of this commemoration).
Festivities continued over the weekend with an open house invitation to the public. Visitors could inspect interactive displays, murals and videos. They could also read about Berkshire innovations such as Frank Julian Sprague, who left Thomas Edison’s lab and developed a safe, non-sparking electric motor, and Douglas Trumbull, the special-effects master who worked on Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
A review of the museum’s reopening ceremonies by the New York Times on April 5 noted that even with the new Feigenbaum Hall addition, the Museum is still recognizably the place that Crane created in 1903 as the Museum of Natural History and Art (Crane is the single source supplier of paper for all US currency).
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