09/25/2026
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: ILLINOIS SECRETARY OF STATE RESOLVES COMPETING MOH CORPORATE FILINGS
We have some very important news.
Following its review of competing filings concerning the Museum of Holography, the Illinois Secretary of State has determined that Moshe Tamssot is the legitimate Registered Agent and Officer of the Museum of Holography.
The Museum of Holography NFP is now ACTIVE with the Illinois Secretary of State, continuing the original Illinois not-for-profit corporation founded by Loren Billings in 1977.
Its continuing Board bridges the Museum’s past and present, including representation from both the original Museum of Holography and the Billings/Siska family.
This follows the July 8, 2026 dismissal for want of prosecution of the court proceeding arising from the Museum’s leadership dispute. The Secretary of State’s subsequent review of the competing corporate filings separately resolved the Museum’s current corporate record.
This is an important milestone after years of uncertainty surrounding the Museum’s governance and future.
It does not resolve every historical question concerning the Museum’s assets now dispersed among private individuals and collections. Those are separate issues, and we are continuing to work through the appropriate governmental and legal processes, including with the Illinois Attorney General’s Charitable Trust Bureau.
Tamssot also serves as President of the Museum of Holography Illinois Unincorporated Association, established in 2013 as part of the longstanding effort to resurrect the Museum of Holography. That mission preceded the present corporate dispute and continues today.
Our goal remains the same one that launched HoloRescue more than a decade ago:
We’re on a Mission to resurrect Chicago’s Museum of Holography, assemble the world’s largest collection of holograms, and share the wonders of holography.
As is our longstanding, documented Operating Philosophy:
“No one should profit off Loren & Bob Billings’ suffering.”
We want this process to be constructive.
Rather than relitigating decades of disagreements, we hope this moment can become an opportunity for the holography community—artists, collectors, volunteers, historians, estates and others connected to the Museum’s history—to help reconstruct the historical record, document what survives and determine where it went.
Where original Museum property is ultimately determined to belong with the Museum, we hope its return can be accomplished voluntarily. Where originals legitimately belong elsewhere, there may be opportunities in the future for loans, copies, digital preservation, archival sharing and other forms of cooperation.
Nobody needs to surrender their independent future to help restore our shared past.
The original Museum of Holography can once again become the institutional nucleus around which its scattered history finds its way home—and upon which past, present and future holographers can build.
We are the Museum of Holography at HoloMuseum dot org.
Museum interrupted. Museum resumed.
More soon.
Museum of Holography
