New York Times: After Costly Delays, Boston Tea Party Museum Set to Reopen
The Boston Tea Party Museum is set to reopen on Tuesday after a stalled and costly renovation, The Boston Globe reports.
The floating museum, on the historic industrial Fort Point Channel,
includes replicas of three ships and a recreation of the events of the
night of Dec. 16, 1773, that helped foment the American Revolution (and,
a few centuries later, birth a political movement).
The reopening, more than a decade after the original museum burned after being struck by lightning, was slowed by permitting and funding problems, the museum’s executive director, Shawn Ford, told The Globe. It was saved by a $28 million state loan financed by hotel taxes and other fees derived from tourists.
Visitors to the interactive museum, which boasts a holographic vision of colonists and British soldiers arguing on a Boston street corner, and a signature tea blended by a tea historian, will have the chance to heave a chest of tea overboard themselves. No word on whether Fox News cameras will be around to catch it.
The reopening, more than a decade after the original museum burned after being struck by lightning, was slowed by permitting and funding problems, the museum’s executive director, Shawn Ford, told The Globe. It was saved by a $28 million state loan financed by hotel taxes and other fees derived from tourists.
Visitors to the interactive museum, which boasts a holographic vision of colonists and British soldiers arguing on a Boston street corner, and a signature tea blended by a tea historian, will have the chance to heave a chest of tea overboard themselves. No word on whether Fox News cameras will be around to catch it.
