12.14.07 •
“At these must-visit museums you don’t just look at stuff—you experience it!” proclaims AARP Magazine of experience-based museums spread across the country. Of the six featured venues, two were designed by Christopher Chadbourne & Associates: The Mount Vernon Education Center and the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
At the new Thea award-winning Mount Vernon Education Center, the article cites that visitors “feel the rumble of cannons during a Revolutionary War flick” as they discover the real George Washington in a 4-D theater where
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snow actually falls onto the audience.
AARP captures the essence of the new National Museum of the Marine Corps by stating, “Short of enlisting, it doesn’t feel any more real than this. Boarding an amphibious craft for a landing on Iwo Jima, join members of a Fox Company for a moonlit patrol in Korea and carefully navigate a booby-trapped Vietnamese village. Big Thrill: Hop into a CH-46 helicopter for a simulated landing in a combat zone.”
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