Coast science museum to close for several months

PEARLINGTON, Miss. - A Mississippi coast science museum is limiting hours and planning to close for a few months because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Sun Herald reports that Infinity Science Center in Hancock County will be open on the weekends only in December. It will close from Jan. 1 through March.

Fred Haise, an Apollo 13 astronaut who serves on the board of Infinity, said officials are hoping to reopen when a coronavirus vaccine is available.

Infinity Science Center is an educational museum with rides, exhibits and tours of Stennis Space Center, a NASA rocket testing facility.

Like museums everywhere, attendance is down at Infinity because of the coronavirus, Haise told The Sun Herald. Many museums that are able to stay open receive government funding.

Staff members will be laid off during the closure.

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