Question- can you go without having tickets? I really want to go but when they mentioned the whole ticket situation, I was just like whatever and didn't look any more into it.
Starting Dec. 19, the National Museum of African American History and Culture will make free, same-day passes available online rather than requiring visitors to line up in person. The museum is also allowing a limited number of walk-up visitors after 1 p.m. on weekdays, crowds permitting.
The museum announced that advance timed passes for April will be distributed online and by phone beginning Jan. 4, while passes for May will be available starting Feb. 1. The passes are available by visiting
nmaahc.si.edu or calling 866-297-4020.
Passes obtained online may be printed or displayed on smartphones.
The changes to the visitor policies come after some 600,000 guests have visited the museum since it opened Sept. 24.
Although the timed passes have successfully controlled crowds and wait times, they have not been fully used during the week, said Beverly Morgan-Welch, the museum’s associate director for external affairs.
About 40 percent of advance passes are being used on weekdays, and 60 percent on weekends. Officials say they wouldn’t want 100 percent usage, since early estimates for how many visitors could be accommodated were too high and did not predict the long length of stays.
Weekday attendance averages about 6,300, while weekends are closer to 8,500, according to the museum.
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Perhaps the most important change is for group admissions. Starting Dec. 19, noncommercial groups of 10 or more guests can request passes up to a year in advance directly through the museum’s website.
The museum hopes the new policies will decrease the perception that there’s a scarcity of passes. Morgan-Welch said that in the frenzy to get passes, guests grabbed multiple passes for multiple days before knowing if they could actually use them. Distributing one month of free passes, rather than the three-month blocks used in August and October, should reduce the public’s impulse to grab more passes than needed.
Colder weather prompted the museum to shift the in-person line for same-day tickets to a virtual queue, Morgan-Welch said. Beginning next week, same-day passes will no longer be distributed outside the museum at 9:15 a.m. Instead, visitors may obtain passes for that day from the museum’s website, starting at 6:30 a.m. Only a limited number of same-day passes, and no walk-up passes, will be available on weekends, because more pass holders use their tickets on Saturdays and Sundays, she said.
) I enjoy dating; it feels like a whole new world now that I have experienced my womanly "glow up". But the end game is a husband at some point sooo..
. It's not like he has professed his love or you are in a serious, exclusive relationship. You are dating and enjoying yourself. Have fun! IMO he is doing what he is supposed to do. Impress you! Why would you be super worried about his feelings at this point? You are the prize! Take your time and have fun. If this guy is spending a lot and does a lot that's fine but how he makes you feel matters also.
). But I know that fun does not equate to a healthy stable relationship. (Not a current goal of mine) One of them in particular is not as good of a catch(in terms of accomplishments and covering me) but I laughed until I cried and my belly ached on our date last night. On top of that, I know he can tell that someone else has been occupying my time and he has upped the ante a bit in his pursuit. He is taking me to Trinidad for Mardi Gras in February, so if nothing else at least ole dude has inspired some healthy competition.
He was crazy!
