The National Park Service will lease the space from the museum for about $50,000 a year. The National Park Service expects to open the National Center in early 2003.
JoAnn Kyral, MNRRA superintendent, says she appreciated the Science Museum's willingness to hold a "prime area in their facility for two years while we sought the next phase of our funding." The Mississippi River National Center will serve as the National Park Service's visitor facility for the MNRRA, providing information to visitors on the area's significance as a natural, historical, cultural, recreational and economic resource.
The National Center will provide visitors with an array of information including brochures, books, maps, and exhibits, as well as electronic technology. Park rangers will help connect visitors to Mississippi River partner areas, such as city, county, state andregional parks. In addition, the National Center will help visitors plan trips to the 385 parks and sites operated by the National Park Service nationwide.
The center will provide information on the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area -- an area that covers a 72-mile section of the river starting near the cities of Dayton and Ramsey and stretching to just south of Hastings. It is composed of 54,000 acres ofland and water.
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