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The Air and Space Museum Finishes Renovating Its Room for the Infinite
· New York time
The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum has reopened all of its space galleries, with the opening of At Home in Space completing the museum's renovation. The exhibition brings the museum's space-related displays back together for visitors after the work. The reopening gives the public access again to a major collection devoted to spaceflight. It is a fittingly large subject for a museum that has spent years making room for it, and the final gallery's title brings the topic down to the scale of daily life beyond Earth. A museum can make a journey to space feel close enough to walk through, provided the visitor first navigates the very earthly business of a building renovation. The project has now reached the stage every construction schedule dreams of: people can enter the finished rooms instead of being directed around them. There is a pleasant reversal in needing so much time and floor space to display humanity's efforts to leave both behind. Space may be vast, but a museum still has to fit the exhibits inside walls and get the doors open. At Home in Space supplies the final room in that plan. Visitors can now contemplate life beyond the planet without first negotiating another closed gallery on the way there.
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