9/11 Museum Admission Fee
LazarusOblong
896 Posts
Awesome, huh?
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/911-museum-to-charge-24-admission/
Who knew when they said "national tribute" it would be more like Beatlemania than the Vietnam Memorial?
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/911-museum-to-charge-24-admission/
Who knew when they said "national tribute" it would be more like Beatlemania than the Vietnam Memorial?
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Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
Don't they have pay tours of Auschwitz with a gift shop that sells $3.00 candy bars?
Makes sense to me. The amount is pretty high but the cost of being in that neighborhood alone without being subsidized must be astronomical.
everything is easily googleable if you wanted to know about this topic.
the Poles have tried relentlessly to develop Auschwitz: there's been retail shops built adjacent to it, a pay parking lot, huge church, there's been proposals for a mall, etc. Poles be like, what's the big deal?
And thus are all museums rendered pointless.
lol yeah seriously; the fuck kinda question is that?
though I do wonder what the museum contains.
worth a visit? anyone been?
http://www.911memorial.org/
How is the Polish dollar doing these days?
I went to the memorial, and it was very moving. Found a couple names I knew.
Don't like the cover charge? Don't pay it. You can protest the ground zero mosque, or do some ground zero yoga, or eat a ground zero muffin, or buy some marked down slightly irregular ground zero fashion at century 21. And then fuck off back to where you came from you damn tourists.
The line to get into the memorial is insane, I think charging admission for the museum is as much a crowd control tactic as anything.
And fuck yeah, charge these fools who hate everything about NYC but want to come shed tears at the WTC site because "we were all attacked that day".... Fuck off.
And I thought they were just about real estate! I never knew they sold cheap, dull looking clothes to young women who probably don't understand Roman numerals such as XXI, anyway.
I went there this year while in Poland/ Germany, I don't regret going but man it was hard to walk through there.
Yes it does cost money but the only way to go in is by guided tour. For obvious reasons they don't want people running around freely in a site like that and they need to pay for the guides + maintenance. Also 1usd = 3 polish dollars...
You can go in without a guide outside of peak daily hours, which are 10-4 or something like that.
Unless that's changed recently, but I don't think it has.
If you had lifetimes of nothing better to do you could perhaps google all the facts, then google all the conspiracy "No, they are not the facts" counter-facts, but google doesn't curate what turned out to be the most interesting personal stories, or add any context in the way a good museum does. As with music, nothing hits as hard as actually seeing the shit yourself.
b/w
Never forget.
Martin Luther Jing?
Holy shit--good catch! I didn't realize it was him.