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WASHINGTON—In a city that prides itself on its stunning monuments to soldiers and presidents who lived and died for this country, it is ironic that the Smithsonian’s exhibit on Sept. 11 was poorly executed and anti-climactic at best...
America’s national museum gave summer tourists a disappointing and strange sight of the Ground Zero flag in what could have been an emotionally charged and thought-provoking exhibit. Instead, the curators seemed to think that the flag and a collection of photographs of the World Trade Center would be better left in a foyer of the Arts and Industries Building, one of the Smithsonian’s most run-down and out-dated spaces...
Just across the Mall is the National Museum of American History—also part of the Smithsonian. Its newest exhibit, which is of comparable size to the one about Sept. 11, shows the historical progression of different families in one house. Maybe, just maybe, the National Museum of American History, which has both a nicer venue for special exhibits and is visited more frequently than the Arts and Industries Building, would have been a better setting for the flag and photographs...
Additionally, one must wonder why the exhibit was not even given a proper room. A foyer must be one of the worst possible places to hold any show. Psychologically, it suggests that the exhibit is an afterthought, that it did not warrant a special area. Logistically, it creates crowd control problems besides threatening the coherence of the exhibit itself...
Essentially in a hallway, the flow of traffic through the exhibit created an atmosphere not of contemplation, but of the hurried rush of families confused by the sudden exhibit. As opposed to the other museums in the area, there was no room for tourists to collect themselves after going through security, and immediately “outside” the exhibit was a café, the gift shop and, after a large open space, the other exhibits. Consequently, the exhibit never was able to capture fully the viewers’ attention. Being jostled, rushed and told by security guards...