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National Museum of Crime and Punishment – Washington

Crime-Museum Visit for One or After Hours Event on August 17 (Up to 54% Off). Seven Options Available.

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In a Nutshell

Forensics and crime museum stays open after sunset for interactive activities such as prison tattoo application and blood-spatter-analysis

The Fine Print

  • Expiration varies
  • Limit 4 per person. Limit 1 per visit. Valid only for option purchased. Not valid until 8/2/12. After Hours Event ticket expires August 17th, 2012. Must exchange for ticket at museum. Regular admission option not valid for special events or Halloween events. Not valid for school or group visits, valid only for individuals and families. Regular admission option expires 10/31/12. Not valid with other offers or deals.
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The first crime-and-punishment museum was an actual penitentiary, hosting tours that gave guests an up-close look at a prisoner’s life, which often included hard labor, matching jumpsuits, and horrific tour-giving duties. Explore justice in a friendlier environ with this Groupon.

Choose from Seven Options

  • $10 for museum admission for one (up to a $21.95 value)
  • $22 for the After Hours event on Friday, August 17 (a $44 value). Choose from entrance times at 7 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 8 p.m., 8:30 p.m., 9 p.m., or 9:30 p.m.

During the After Hours event, The National Museum of Crime and Punishment keeps the cellblock open after sunset, setting up stations where visitors can receive a prison tattoo or learn how to analyze blood spatter.

The National Museum of Crime and Punishment

The National Museum of Crime and Punishment shines a light on the dark underbelly of society with more than 100 interactive exhibits spread across three stories and 25,000 square feet of gallery space. After resting their weary bones in an unplugged electric chair, fans of CSI can live out television fantasies at the Crime Scene Investigation exhibit, where they can learn what it takes to be a forensic scientist and watch professionals in action before trying to determine whether or not fellow museum-goers exhibit the traits of serial killers. The exhibit also serves as a crash course in fingerprinting, DNA testing, fraudulent-check investigation, and dental-impression and ballistics analysis. The museum devotes an entire level to the now-retired set of America’s Most Wanted, providing an adjoining exhibit where fans of the show can step into a green screen for a criminal profile or imaginary Caribbean vacation. The museum’s many permanent exhibits include A Notorious History of American Crime, about the country's felonious forefathers, and an exploration into one of the most heinous masterminds of modern times in the Ted Kaczynski: The Unabomber exhibit.

Prohibition After Hours

Adventurers explore the Roaring Twenties at a time when the museum's doors regularly would be shut tight. Museum-goers wander through an interactive series of exhibits that focus on Prohibition and the history of crime in general, and like apprehended bootleggers and serial jaywalkers, visitors can ink themselves with temporary prison tattoos and decide on a last meal, before springing themselves from the joint to analyze blood splatter like modern forensics experts. Interactive demonstrations in forensic science help museum-goers learn the stories that blood spatters tell before an exploration of prison tattoos shed light on the social orders in the pen.

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The Groupon Guide to: Crossing the Street

It’s not enough just to cross the street safely—you have to want to cross the street safely. Ensure your safety by observing the following rules before crossing any and every street:

  • Look both ways.

  • Look the other both ways—directly at the sun and deep inside yourself.

  • Check to see if an old woman is crossing the street alone. If so, let her go. Study her. Learn from her successes and her failures.

  • Invite the drivers of every stopped car to an impromptu roundtable discussion about vehicle safety and what it means to society in an election year.

  • Do whatever the tiny imprisoned man in the traffic signal does. If he walks, you walk. If he turns into a red hand, you turn into a red hand.

  • Just wait. Eventually the other side of the street will come to you if you have enough candy in your pockets.

Should you always do what the man imprisoned in the traffic signal does?

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