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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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DAR Museum
Be the First to Rate It Map | The headquarters of the Daughters of the American Revolution... |
Museums / Galleries | White House area |
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Ford's Theatre
Be the First to Rate It Map | In 1859 Baltimore theater impresario John T. Ford leased the... |
Museums / Galleries | East End |
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Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Be the First to Rate It Map | Cedar Hill, the Anacostia home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass... |
Museums / Galleries | Anacostia |
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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 |
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Friendship Fire House
Be the First to Rate It Map | Alexandria's showcase firehouse, home to the area's first volunteer... |
Museums / Galleries | Alexandria |
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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 |
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Hillwood Museum and Gardens
Be the First to Rate It Map | Hillwood House, cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post's 40-room... |
Museums / Galleries | Northwest |
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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 |
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International Spy Museum
Be the First to Rate It Map | Cryptologists, masters of disguise, and former CIA, FBI, and... |
Museums / Galleries | East End |
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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 |
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Lyceum
Be the First to Rate It Map | Built in 1839, the Lyceum served as a library, a Civil War hospital... |
Museums / Galleries | Alexandria |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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National Portrait Gallery
Be the First to Rate It Map | Devoted to the intersection of art, biography, and history, this... |
Museums / Galleries | East End |
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National Postal Museum
Be the First to Rate It Map | The Smithsonian's stamp collection, housed here, consists of... |
Museums / Galleries | Capitol Hill |
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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 |
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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 |
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Phillips Collection
Be the First to Rate It Map | The first permanent museum of modern art in the country, the... |
Museums / Galleries | Dupont Circle |
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Renwick Gallery
Be the First to Rate It Map | The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum has... |
Museums / Galleries | White House area |
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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 |
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Smithsonian Institution Building
Be the First to Rate It Map | The first Smithsonian museum constructed, this red sandstone... |
Museums / Galleries | The Mall |
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Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary
Be the First to Rate It Map | Once patronized by George Washington and the Lee family, Alexandria's... |
Museums / Galleries | Alexandria |
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Textile Museum
Be the First to Rate It Map | In the 1890s, George Hewitt Myers, an heir to the Bristol-Myers... |
Museums / Galleries | Kalorama |
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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 |
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Woodrow Wilson House
Be the First to Rate It Map | President Wilson and his second wife, Edith Bolling Wilson, retired... |
Museums / Galleries | Kalorama |