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Should D.C.’s museums start charging fees?
One federal budget proposal is to end free admission to the Smithsonian museums. If this happened, museums in Washington, D.C., such as the National Air and Space Museum and the National Museum of Natural History, might charge $ 7.50 an adult. Apollo Command Module, at the National Air & Space Museum (Courtesy jurvetson/Flickr) The bipartisan panel tasked by President Obama to pinpoint policies to fix our national financies would like to add fees for entry to favorite institutions. (See the full proposal. It opens as a PDF; you can download free Adobe software here). A fee of about $ 7.50 an adult could earn the federal government about $ 225…
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Some Cool Boston Museums Images
Check out these cool boston museums images: Boston, MA: Entrance to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston – Harvard Museum of Natural History – Coelacanthus
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Some Cool Boston Museums Images
Today was the last day that the Charles Hayden Planetarium’s Carl Zeiss projector was used at the Museum of Science in Boston. It has been here since 1970, though it itself replaced the museum’s original projector from ten years earlier. Tomorrow, this projector gets decommissioned, dismantled, and shipped to another museum in Colorado. I remember going to see presentations with it as a kid in the early 1980s, and maybe even earlier than that. (I also remember seeing laser shows to Pink Floyd albums as a teenager in the 1990s, but I’m not sure if the projector has anything to do with the laser shows.) The new projector is going…