Diversity in Support for Exploration and Education
Keith’s note: Care to guess where this donation box is? Note the diversity of currencies. This diversity is quite normal for this location. Click on image to enlarge.
Keith’s note: Care to guess where this donation box is? Note the diversity of currencies. This diversity is quite normal for this location. Click on image to enlarge.
National Air and Space Museum?
Bingo.
AIr & Space Museum in DC?
Correct.
My guess would be the National Air & Space Museum.
You are correct.
I’d vote for NA&SM as well, but your “wink-wink-nudge-nudge” question begs an exotic answer… Looking at the large percentage of asian currencies, this can’t be at a Chinese version of the NA&SM, would it?
Or Singapore? (no space program…yet, but they are looking at space-ports & -tourism)
GAAAAH!!!! I also said NA&SM! Honestly, I did, but…
Then I went back and added that “but…” statement! I did what we were told as students never to do with tests…. Never second guess your initial answers, they have a higher probability of being right!
Any ideas as to:
1) the amount of buying power in there;
2) whether it will have any impact in the right places/minds;
3) how does/will this money actually get spent?
I recall seeing this or another donation box at the NA&SM when I was there memorial day weekend, but I do not recall it being a donation box for support of exploration or education specifically. I believe it was more of a “friends of the museum” type donation box.
Note that the “diversity is quite normal for this location” because those bills have been sprinkled by NASM around the hole for the actual donation box, and have been sitting there in much the same arrangement for several years. The actual contents of the box are almost certainly predominantly US Dollars. (Still, diversity, point taken.)
I watched people put that money in there – that is what drew my interest. Specifically I saw that Yuan bill and the Korean bill placed in the box about 2 minutes apart.
The number of Asian tour groups in DC has exploded in recent years and, of course, they always go to the NA&SM
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