Renaming the Atwater Kent wouldn't fly. A. Atwater Kent donated his personal collections and the building itself (the original Franklin Institute). He should get props, as an inventor (the electric starter for cars and various radio innovations), businessman and donor, even if he did have some nasty quirks. I would bet that it would be very difficult to change the name without losing a substantial part of the collection. It is already called the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia, so people know it is primarily about the city.

The museum is not exactly a city entity. Some of the employees are city employees while others are not. Moving it to City Hall would open a whole can of worms about the non-city employees. I think they are currently doing work on their building anyway. It is a great structure, built in he early 19th century and modeled on a Greek Temple. The only problem is that they only have the space to show a tiny fraction of a fairly massive collection. The stuff they have on-site and not accessable to the public could fill their galleries 10 times and their off-site storage is truly amazing. I'm not much of an antiquarian and it made my jaw drop. Maybe they should take over the Rohm and Haas building when all of those jobs get packed off to Michigan. (I kid, I hope.)