Making the Bad Worse

Jill, official older daughter of NewMexiKen, reports:

Remember how the Smithsonian’s American History Museum always felt like a museum that was fun and interesting in spite of itself? Like, the museum itself was so antiquated and the exhibits were so boring and old-fashioned…yet you still enjoyed visiting simply because the items they had to display were so great?

Well, they closed the museum for more than two years, spent more than $85 million and managed to make it…even worse.

Oh my gosh, we went there today and we were so disappointed. They’ve renovated the building, but they have the same old exhibits, except even smaller and more cramped, with fewer items on display. All the exhibits are like cramped in corners and there is very little to see, and lines everywhere to even get into these tiny rooms.

We couldn’t get out of there fast enough. Reid was SO UPSET because we’d promised him he could see Indiana Jones’ hat. Nope. The entire entertainment/music/sports exhibit is now one room about the size of my living room with about three interesting things in it (Kermit, Oscar the Grouch, and the Ruby Slippers).

Yuck. At least the Museum of Natural History never disappoints.