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Originally Posted by JakeNB
Not sure why anyone would think that tourists are not interested in museums. Just back from Amsterdam where we spent the better part of a day at the Rijksmuseum (which gets almost 3 million visitors a year). The Van Gogh museum was sold out for 3 weeks. Also spent an afternoon at the national marine history museum on the waterfront where they had not one but two tall ships that visitors could board and explore. But yeah, tourists aren’t interested in museums.
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In fairness though, the NB Museum isn’t on the level of the museums you mention. Those are destination museums tourists purposefully book travel to visit. Have a shuttle then from cruise terminal. Ask any museum employee, they’ll tell you they had a small trickle of cruise traffic and that’s when it was right in front of their nose at Market Square. The massing of these buildings will be visible from the ships and that alone could draw them knowing it must be something special.