Among the highlights of the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum, which opened earlier this year in Atchison, Kansas, is experiencing a recreation of the pilot’s 1932 historic transatlantic flight through a virtual reality headset.
It is the museum’s interactive exhibits that helped it land a nomination for USA Today’s “Best New Museum,” and you can help decide if it comes out on top. Voting is open until Christmas Day, when the winner will be revealed.
Nominees are submitted by a panel of experts. Editors for 10Best, USA Today’s travel and lifestyle advice section, then narrow the field to select the final set of nominees for the Readers’ Choice Awards. Readers can vote once per category every day until voting is closed. USA Today said the nominees represent the “top openings of the past two years.”
The Earhart Museum is one of 16 finalists for the poll. The other nominees include:
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Africatown Heritage House in Mobile, Alabama
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Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, New York
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Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C.
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The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, California
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Gettysburg Beyond the Battle Museum in Gettysburg
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Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco in San Francisco
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International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina
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Jackie Robinson Museum in New York City
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MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Moonshot Museum in Pittsburgh
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Museum of Broadway in New York City
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The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas
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Rubell Museum…
