4 Smithsonian museums shut down for days over HVAC issues
A handful of Smithsonian museums are closed again Tuesday because of HVAC problems leaving various tourists in D C disappointed in-article-vertical-video float right padding-left px width px central media only screen and max-width px in-article-vertical-video float none padding-left px in-article-vertical-video connatix video caption width px fundamental tnvbNcaMHUrl margin-bottom px padding px px background D text-align center font-weight bold color fff border-radius px connatix video caption margin-bottom px margin-top font-size px color font-weight text-align left display none This page contains a video which is being blocked by your ad blocker In order to view the video you must disable your ad blocker new Image src https capi connatix com tr si token be c -c - acb-af - a ccca cid c ffed c- - c -b f- c d a cnx cmd push function cnx playerId bc b - b- e d-b b - e mediaId bfeff d - f - db -b c- e c f render bdfa da a ce ed b function renderError playerApi if renderError playerApi typeof playerApi getSize function var size playerApi getSize var captionElements document querySelectorAll connatix video caption var captionElementsArray captionElements captionElementsArray forEach el if el size el style width size width px el style display block HVAC problems shutter particular local museums The Hirshhorn Asian Art African Art and American Indian museums have been closed for about three days Vaughn Strohman came in from Fairfax County Virginia and announced he feels really bad for people in from our of town Honestly yeah we came here for an exhibit so just a little disappointed of program Strohman noted According to the Smithsonian there was an internal power issue at its central plant on Saturday As a aftermath it s harder for us to control the humidity in those specific buildings the Smithsonian wrote in a post on social media The Smithsonian on X urged people to visit other locations There are signs with a QR code in front of the museums to check for re-opening updates The Smithsonian has also directed people hoping to visit to check its website for updates Source
