Empire State opens its doors for Cartoon Museum.New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. will soon have a major new tourist attraction Noun 1. tourist attraction - a characteristic that attracts tourists attractive feature, magnet, attractor, attracter, attraction - a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts; "flowers are an attractor for bees" . The National Cartoon Museum, formerly the International Museum of Cartoon Art, headquartered in Boca Raton Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , Fla., has signed a long-term lease for over 15,000 s/f of retail and exhibit space, as well as 2,000 s/f of office space, at the Empire State Building, where it will house and display its permanent collection of cartoons, the largest in the world. The multi-level Museum, which will boast approximately 40 feet of prime frontage along 34th Street, just west of Fifth Avenue, will feature a spectacular $20 million collection comprised of approximately 200,000 original cartoons, amassed over 68 years from more than 50 countries, as well as 10,000 books and 1,000 hours of animation. The Museum is being designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates Ralph Appelbaum Associates (RAA) is the world’s largest interpretive museum design firm. Founded in 1978 by Ralph Appelbaum, RAA has more than 100 specialists working in offices in New York City, London and Beijing. , renowned museum planners and designers. "It's the greatest collection of its kind and it be longs in New York City, the heart of the cartoon industry," said the Museum's founder, legendary cartoonist Mort Walker Addison Morton Walker (born September 3, 1923 in El Dorado, Kansas), more popularly known as Mort Walker, is an American comic artist, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954. , creator of the "Beetle Bailey" comic strip. Interior construction work on the space, which will include street, mezzanine and lower levels, will begin this fall so that the Museum should be ready to open to the public late next year, said Stephen A. Tole tole also tôle n. A lacquered or enameled metalware, usually gilded and elaborately painted. [French tôle, sheet metal, variant of table, table, slab , general manager of the Empire State Building. "We couldn't be happier that this national treasure, with its ageless appeal, has chosen the most famous building in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of for its new home," Mr. Tole noted. "The addition of a multi-level, world-class Cartoon Museum, in combination with our legendary rooftop Observatory, further enhances our stature as the city's preeminent tourist attraction for visitors of all ages." Director of leasing Thomas P. Sullivan represented the Empire State Building in the 15-year transaction. In addition to displaying every genre of its art-film and television animation, comic books, comic strips, gag cartoons, illustration, editorial cartoons, greeting cards, caricature, graphic novels, sports cartoons and computer generated art--the Museum also plans to hold seminars, courses, lectures, workshops and special exhibitions. |
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