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Name	Category	Location

Alexandria Black History Resource Center Be the First to Rate It Map \| Here, at the site of the Robert H. Robinson Library, a building...	Museums / Galleries	Alexandria

Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture Be the First to Rate It Map \| The richness of African-American culture is on display in this...	Museums / Galleries	Anacostia

Art Museum of the Americas Be the First to Rate It Map \| Changing exhibits highlight 20th-century Latin American artists...	Museums / Galleries	White House area

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Be the First to Rate It Map \| When Charles Freer endowed the gallery that bears his name, he...	Museums / Galleries	The Mall

Boyhood Home of Robert E. Lee Be the First to Rate It Map \| The childhood home in Alexandria of the Commander in Chief of...	Museums / Galleries	Alexandria

Christian Heurich House Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| This opulent Romanesque revival mansion, once known as the Brewmaster's...	Museums / Galleries	Dupont Circle

Corcoran Gallery of Art Be the First to Rate It Map \| The Corcoran is Washington's largest non-Federal art museum...	Museums / Galleries	White House area

DAR Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| The headquarters of the Daughters of the American Revolution...	Museums / Galleries	White House area

Ford's Theatre Be the First to Rate It Map \| In 1859 Baltimore theater impresario John T. Ford leased the...	Museums / Galleries	East End

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Be the First to Rate It Map \| Cedar Hill, the Anacostia home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass...	Museums / Galleries	Anacostia

Freer Gallery of Art Be the First to Rate It Map \| Home to one of the world's finest collections of Asian art, the...	Museums / Galleries	The Mall

Friendship Fire House Be the First to Rate It Map \| Alexandria's showcase firehouse, home to the area's first volunteer...	Museums / Galleries	Alexandria

Gadsby's Tavern Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| This museum is housed in the old City Tavern and Hotel, which...	Museums / Galleries	Alexandria

Hillwood Museum and Gardens Be the First to Rate It Map \| Hillwood House, cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post's 40-room...	Museums / Galleries	Northwest

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Be the First to Rate It Map \| Sculpture on the National Mall is mostly marble columns and dead...	Museums / Galleries	The Mall

International Spy Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| Cryptologists, masters of disguise, and former CIA, FBI, and...	Museums / Galleries	East End

Kreeger Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| You need to take a car or taxi to reach the Kreeger Museum. Its...	Museums / Galleries	Foxhall

Lyceum Be the First to Rate It Map \| Built in 1839, the Lyceum served as a library, a Civil War hospital...	Museums / Galleries	Alexandria

Marian Koshland Science Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| Sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, this small but...	Museums / Galleries	East End

National Air and Space Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| This is the world's most visited museum, attracting 9 million...	Museums / Galleries	The Mall

National Archives Be the First to Rate It Map \| The National Archives are at once monument, museum, and the nation's...	Museums / Galleries	The Mall

National Building Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| The open interior of this mammoth redbrick edifice is one of...	Museums / Galleries	East End

National Gallery of Art, East Building Be the First to Rate It Map \| The East Building opened in 1978 in response to the changing...	Museums / Galleries	The Mall

National Gallery of Art, West Building Be the First to Rate It Map \| The two buildings of the National Gallery hold one of the world's...	Museums / Galleries	The Mall

National Geographic Society Be the First to Rate It Map \| Founded in 1888, the society is best known for its magazine...	Museums / Galleries	Dupont Circle

National Museum of African Art Be the First to Rate It Map \| Opened in 1987, this unique underground building houses galleries...	Museums / Galleries	The Mall

National Museum of American History Be the First to Rate It Map \| The 3 million artifacts in the country's largest history museum...	Museums / Galleries	The Mall

National Museum of Health and Medicine Be the First to Rate It Map \| Open since the 1860s, this medical museum illustrates medicine's...	Museums / Galleries	Upper Northwest

National Museum of Natural History Be the First to Rate It Map \| This is one of the great natural history museums in the world...	Museums / Galleries	The Mall

National Museum of the American Indian Be the First to Rate It Map \| The Smithsonian's newest museum opened in 2004 and is the first...	Museums / Galleries	The Mall

National Museum of Women in the Arts Be the First to Rate It Map \| Works by female artists from the Renaissance to the present are...	Museums / Galleries	East End

National Portrait Gallery Be the First to Rate It Map \| Devoted to the intersection of art, biography, and history, this...	Museums / Galleries	East End

National Postal Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| The Smithsonian's stamp collection, housed here, consists of...	Museums / Galleries	Capitol Hill

Newseum Be the First to Rate It Map \| Set to open in late 2007, the vast, 600,000-square-foot new Newseum...	Museums / Galleries	East End

Octagon Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| Why this six-sided building is named the Octagon remains a subject...	Museums / Galleries	White House area

Phillips Collection Be the First to Rate It Map \| The first permanent museum of modern art in the country, the...	Museums / Galleries	Dupont Circle

Renwick Gallery Be the First to Rate It Map \| The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum has...	Museums / Galleries	White House area

Smithsonian American Art Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| Home to the United States' first federal art collection, the...	Museums / Galleries	East End

Smithsonian Institution Building Be the First to Rate It Map \| The first Smithsonian museum constructed, this red sandstone...	Museums / Galleries	The Mall

Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Be the First to Rate It Map \| Once patronized by George Washington and the Lee family, Alexandria's...	Museums / Galleries	Alexandria

Textile Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| In the 1890s, George Hewitt Myers, an heir to the Bristol-Myers...	Museums / Galleries	Kalorama

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Be the First to Rate It Map \| Museums usually celebrate the best that humanity can achieve...	Museums / Galleries	The Mall

Woodrow Wilson House Be the First to Rate It Map \| President Wilson and his second wife, Edith Bolling Wilson, retired...	Museums / Galleries	Kalorama

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