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Museum Should be Free $$$
Perhaps I'm spoiled from the free museums here in DC, but this museum absolutely should not be charging admission. It's critical that everyone should be able to enter the museum in order to remember what happened that day, and they should be allowed to go back whenever they feel the need to do so. Most people in this country are struggling enough as it is, and just trying to stay in New York or anywhere even remotely close to it is more expensive than traveling to any other city in the US, bar none. New York is STUPID expensive, and that's coming from a DC resident where living costs are already higher than almost everywhere else in the US.
Congress should appropriate money for this museum and the memorial's maintenance costs, either through the Smithsonian Institutions, the National Park Service, or through dedicated, lock-in legislation that guarantees an annual continuous revenue stream. It should be handled on a federal level because this is, and will increasingly become, a national issue and a national destination, and a national pilgrimage site. If this becomes another $20 museum, it will be sending the wrong message, especially with Wall Street right next door. 9/11 affected everyone, and by charging for admission, you're filtering some of those people out. I understand that $20 in New York is almost like $5 everywhere else, and I know that I'm just pulling that number out of my ass, but just the principle of charging admission, even if it's 10 cents, is wrong in this circumstance. It's inappropriate.
Last edited by Don098; Sep 9, 2011 at 3:20 PM.
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