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The Smithsonian Air and

Space Museum will close
for at least six months in
2022
It's part of a massive seven-year renovation.
J. Fingas | 11.23.21
@jonfingas

Smithsonian's National
J. Fingas
Air and Space Museum
@jonfingas
November 23rd, 2021 The Smithsonian
Air and Space
Museum hasn't

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space, museum, flight, but it's already Babbel.com

tomorrow, science,
poised to shut its
Smithsonian, Air and Space
Museum doors again — if
for more positive
reasons. The
Washington Post
reports the
Smithsonian is
closing its flagship
National Mall
building for at
least six months of
renovations
starting March
28th, 2022. The
move will
maintain the
"continued safety"
of visitors while
the museum
finishes work on AdChoices Sponsored

its first new west

wing galleries.

The closure is part

of the first phase
of a seven-year
renovation poised
to cost over $1

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during that period,

including the
Steven F. Udvar-
Hazy Center in
Virginia (which
will remain open).
Some parts of the
collection have
relocated to other
relevant museums
in the meantime,
such as the
Museum of
African American
History and
Culture, the
Museum of
Natural History
and the Museum
of the American
Indian.

The wait could be

worthwhile. Eight
west wing exhibits
should launch

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Some parts of the

renovation are still
far from
completion. The
museum will start
"deinstallation" of
the east wing in
March and won't
complete its
upgrade until
sometime in 2025.
If you can live
with those
limitations,
though, the Air
and Space
Museum may
soon be more
relevant and
engaging than in

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