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Coronavirus: Kingston’s Murney Tower quiet on the outside, busy behind the scenes
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a wrench into the opening plans for many tourist attractions this year.The Murney Tower in Kingston, for example, couldn’t open at all this season, but that doesn’t mean the waterfront fortress stayed quite.The tower is a National Historic Site, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site and also the Limestone City’s oldest operating museum.“We were really looking forward to our season opening, where we had lots of new exhibit ideas, new exhibitions, new artifacts that we wanted to put on display, and then COVID hit and all of those plans had to be postponed,” said Simge Erdogan, the tower’s manager and curator.The tower hasn’t had visitors for almost a full calendar year because it closed for the season last fall