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A new museum? A 13 day public comment period window is now open for five different design concepts, depicted here, for a new east building addition to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. This upcoming museum building is planned to be completed in the next 3 years, opening in time for the sestercentennial of the United States in 2026. Gyo Obata’s (the architect of the main museum building) 1988 glass restaurant pavilion annex will soon be demolished to make way for the Jeff Bezos Learning Center, which will include the “New Shepard” aerospace craft (depicted in the photos below) in which Bezos made a suborbital space flight, just above the Karman Line, in 2021. Bezos stroked a $200,000,000.00 million dollar check to fund this upcoming museum building, along with a stipulation that, for a minimum of 50 years, Bezos’ name will be publicly displayed in multiple places around the entire museum complex, both inside, and also facing public streets on the outside of the building, and in advance of the completion of the new wing. The terms of the written agreement between Bezos and the Smithsonian Institution, do not include a morals clause, a provision that would have allowed the Smithsonian to terminate the naming rights if Bezos’s conduct and behavior brought disrepute to the institution. CBS Market Watch reporter Leslie Albrecht obtained a copy of the agreement with a public records request. If you spot any coverage of the public comment period on the designs in the news media, please consider bringing it to our attention. For further reading, and to file a public comment on this project directly with the Smithsonian Institution: https://airandspace.si.edu/about-transformation/bezos-learning-center #NASM #smithsonian #NationalAirAndSpaceMuseum #AirAndSpaceMuseumDC #AirAndSpace #AirAndSpaceMuseum #BezosLearningCenter #BezosMuseum #JeffBezos #BlueOrigin #BlueOriginSpace #WashingtonDCtravel #WashingtonDCvacation #NationalMallTravel #NationalMall #WashingtonDCbusinessTrip (at National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution) https://www.instagram.com/p/CifiP4Frj_f/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=