Washington museum to re-open after demonstration

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Washington museum to re-open after demonstration

The Associated Press Published Sunday, October 9, 2011 9:00AM EDT Last Updated Saturday, May 19, 2012 6:13AM EDT

A demonstrator falls to the ground as other demonstrators move away from the entrance to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington after police pepper-sprayed a group of protestors trying to get into the museum Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011, as part of Occupy DC activities in Washington.

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WASHINGTON - The National Air and Space Museum in Washington is expected to re-open today after being closed Saturday because of an anti-war demonstration.

Protesters swarmed the building to protest a drone exhibit and security guards used pepper spray to repel them, sickening a number of protesters.

Smithsonian spokesman John Gibbons says 100 to 200 demonstrators tried to enter the museum.

He says when a security guard stopped them, saying they couldn't bring in signs, he was apparently held by demonstrators.

Gibbons says a second guard used pepper spray on at least one person and the crowd dispersed.

Medics treated or evaluated a dozen people at the scene but no one was seriously hurt.

A number of those who showed up at the museum were members of the October 2011 Stop the Machine demonstration in Washington, which has an anti-war and anti-corporate greed message.

Others were part of Occupy D.C. -- a group modeled on the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City.