Collection of 2025 Media Mentions
Collection of 2025 Media Mentions
Updated December 4, 2025
Below is a collection of the 2025 media mentions for PRI regarding the current financial position of the institution and its fundraising efforts to stabilize as well as Museum events and programs.
News Coverage in 2025:
Museum of the Earth Faces Financial Crisis After $30 Million Pledge Falls Through | Ithaca Times - January 22, 2025
You can help keep this Finger Lakes Museum afloat, avoid 'catastrophe for paleontology’ | Ithaca Journal - January 23, 2025
Museum of the Earth faces extinction under “imminent” threat of foreclosure | Ithaca Voice – January 13, 2025
Letter to the editor: A Plea for the Museum of the Earth | Cornell Sun – January 20, 2025
Guest Column: Together, we can preserve a local treasure: The Future for PRI| 14850.com – January 23, 2025
Museum of the Earth Looks for University Support Amid Financial Troubles | Cornell Sun – January 27, 2025
Museum of the Earth in Ithaca faces financial turmoil | WSKG – January 29, 2025
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | The Importance of the Paleontological Research Institution | Cornell Sun –January 31, 2025
Museum of the Earth faces closure | The Ithacan – February 5, 2025
Guest Opinion: “Possible Museum of the Earth Closure - Where is Cornell University” | Ithaca Times – February 6, 2025
Ithaca’s ‘Museum of the Earth’ fighting its extinction | WBNG – February 14, 2025
Financial peril could doom a famed New York paleontological institute | Science – February 20, 2025
Museum of the Earth in Ithaca faces closure without new donor support | Science – March 3, 2025
The Museum of the Earth research collection threatened by lack of funding| Ithaca Week – March 17, 2025
Donation spike gives Museum of the Earth new life but future remains uncertainI Ithaca Voice – April 4, 2025
Saving the Museum | Ithaca Times – October 22, 2025
Museum of Earth could be met with possible foreclosure | WBNG Binghamton - October 27, 2025
Ithaca's Museum of Earth faces foreclosure unless $1 million is raised by end of year |CNY Central – October 28, 2025
The hidden gem upstate NY museum with Dino bones you can touch is on the brink of extinction. | NYUp.com - October 29, 2025
Ithaca's Museum of Earth Faces Foreclosure by Year-End |WSYR Radio – October 29, 2025
Largest New York fossil collection, home of Hyde Park mastodon, faces closure Times Union - October 31, 2025
Upstate natural history museum at risk of closing | Capitol Press Room -October 31, 2025
Museum That Houses Hyde Park Mastodon at Risk of Closure | Hudson Valley Magazine - November 5, 2025
Ithaca's Museum of the Earth needs to close a financial gap | Spectrum News - November 21, 2025
Horseheads student hoping to save Museum of the Earth from closure WENY - November 21, 2025
Museum of the Earth Celebrates 2nd Antarctica Day | WBNG - December 1, 2025
Passion for paleontology: 14-year-old raises money for Ithaca museum in need | WSYR - December 5, 2025
Read the Original Announcement from December 2023 | PRI Downsizing Amidst Financial Challenges