Somebody in museum-land is screwing around.

After Darin Boville read my posting about DC museum shows, he jumps and points out that "just for fun, the Air and Space Museum (one of the top attractions in the world) gets (they claim) nine and a half million visitors per year--that's over 26,000 people per day!"

Actually, Darin is slightly off.... they claim eleven million visitors a year in 2003!

Is that a fib or is the Air and Space Museum kicking the crap out of the other art museums on the Mall (and the world)? And if they are right, where else are those 11 million visitors "visiting" while they're on the Mall?

Rub it in: "The staggering number of visitors to the National Air and Space Museum is expected to increase by another 3 million starting in December, when the museum’s companion facility at Washington Dulles International Airport opens." Read it here.

Great catch Darin!