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The policy that OP quotes above is clear -- you cannot EAT your own food inside the museum. It does not say you are forbidden to CARRY food in with you to consume later elsewhere.

We often carry our own lunches or snacks on days downtown and I've never been told to ditch them--not even in the African American museum. The food is wrapped up clearly for consumption later. (Not a fresh hot pie like someone posted about earlier; I can't image why anyone would buy from a street vendor and walk directly into a museum to eat that food then....)

I think problems arise when some people want to carry their own food and eat it in the museum cafeteria. That space is for paying cafeteria customers and if it's a picnic space, that affects the museum's ability to make money on its food service. Since these museums are free to enter, they do need to fundraise, and selling food is one way they do that. They don't boot out people simply for toting picnics they'll eat later and outside. And I have seen people eating their own food inside when cafeterias were not crowded. But I've also seen people politely asked not to eat their food there when it was the height of tourist season and people with loaded cafeteria trays were walking around looking for scarce seats.

With the African American museum, tickets are timed entry, which is not the case at the other Mall museums. So someone who must enter at noon can't tour for a while, go to the cafeteria and eat their own picnic, and then start touring the museum again. As long as the museum uses timed tickets -- so you can't leave to eat outside and then walk back in - and visitors will need either to time meals around their museum time, eat the cafeteria food, or bring a picnic for before they enter or after they leave.

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