Smithsonian Rolls Out New Tour Video Starring Ben Stiller

Staying with museums for a few minutes more, we turn to the Smithsonian, where the museum group has just rolled out a new video at their main visitor’s center, featuring actor Ben Stiller, giving a short, comedic, ten minute tour of all the Smithsonian museums in the DC area. They have the clip available online here, but it’s been horribly encoded, making it something of a struggle to watch — though the few parts we were able to decipher at the beginning when there wasn’t much movement messing with the compression we found fairly funny. Given that the film wasn’t launched to coincide with his latest Night at the Museum film, we’re guessing it’s either a) to give a little reminder about the film as it nears DVD release or b) in order to be able to use the Smithsonian’s name and shoot sections of the film in their properties, there was a line in the contract stipulating that Still would shoot something like this for him. Or maybe he’s just a stand-up guy who wanted to do something nice for them. Who’s to know.

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