The Washington Post - The new Spy Museum is bigger, bolder and more beautiful. Here are the 10 things you shouldn’t miss.
THE WASHINGTON POST
The familiar sleek lines of James Bond’s AstonMartin greet visitors in the modern glass lobby of the new InternationalSpy Museum, a welcome nod to the institution’s entertaining roots. Butsuspended overhead is an Amber Drone, precursor of the CIA’s remotelypiloted Predator aircraft and an early clue that the new version brings alittle edge to the fun and games.
The popularWashington attraction reopens Sunday at 700 L’Enfant Plaza SW — above10th Street and halfway between the Mall and the Wharf — with a similarratio of interactive adventures to historical artifacts that made theoriginal Penn Quarter site a favorite since it opened in 2002.
Thenew iteration has plenty of gadgets, games and pop culture references.But it digs into heavier topics, too, with exhibitions focused on theuse of torture in interrogations, the psychology behind theagent-handler relationship and the ethics of mass surveillance.