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The rainy weather couldn't keep people from heading to the USS Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum on Saturday. The aircraft carrier-turned-museum reopened this weekend after a two-year refurbishing project. Jim Kiernan took some great photographs--some of his photos are above and his entire Flick set is here.
And the reopening is reason enough for President Bush to stop by tomorrow, which is Veterans Day. Bush will be presented with the 2008 Intrepid Freedom Award, which "recognizes world leaders who embody the ideals of world freedom and democracy. Prior honorees include Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton, Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Margaret Thatcher and Silvio Berlusconi and Russian President Boris Yeltsin."
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Well if Silvio Berlusconi got this award then it must be important.
Those pictures are fantastic. I wish they came with a bit of explanation of what we are looking at though.
Does anyone know the story of the American flag under the glass?
The last time i went to the Intrepid was a couple of years ago right before the restoration. It was a sad looking museum. All the exhibits were decrepit with a hint of patheticness to it, almost as if it was a local needlecraft museum in Easton, PA or something. I'm glad they modernized it and i cannot wait to check it out. I wonder if the A12 (SR-71 predecessor) is still on display...you'll know this as the big black plane that Will Smith golfed off of in "I Am Legend".
If you go to the flicker site it appears to be one of three pieces of original art from what looks like part of the chain hoist mechanism.
Although not detailed captions, they give some clues as to do what you are looking at.
Does anyone know who the exhibit designer was?
Tickets are much too expensive. The admission should be on a donation basis, like the Air & Space Museum in DC.
The Smithsonian museums aren't really on a donation basis. They're flat out free. You can donate money if you like, but it's not a coercive "suggested donation" with ticket machines that don't let you suggest something different, and a bigass line to talk to a real human being, like certain other places...