Meanwhile, Planet Word, Glenstone and the National Building Museum have announced plans to bring visitors back over the next week. They join the already-open Museum of the Bible, the International Spy Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Phillips Collection. “To be able to go into a museum, where you feel welcome and safe and there is beautiful art, provocative art, new art and old friends. “It is extremely important that those museums are open, but the perception is still tied to what happens with the Smithsonians,” Ferguson said. We want the zoo and the other Smithsonians to open.”Feldman, the National Gallery’s director, said the experience gained from the summer and fall will make a spring reopening easier.

Source: Washington Post March 31, 2021 17:41 UTC