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Visit the National Museum of the Marine Corps: Enter and experience what it means to be a Marine.
Downtown
First major museum in the world solely dedicated to championing women through the arts.
Capitol Hill
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
A playful learning adventure awaits at National Children's Museum!
Dupont Circle
Dine intimately in the presidential Dining Room, enjoy cocktails throughout the main museum rooms or relax and unwind in the tranquil period garden.
Brookland
Saint John Paul II National Shrine
The National Geographic Museum of Exploration is Now Open!
The iconic riverside estate of George Washington. Open daily, 365 days a year.
Penn Quarter & Chinatown
The National Portrait Gallery gives visitors a chance to meet fascinating Americans from more than 225 years of history in its halls
Fly High at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Egyptian Cultural and Education Center
The museum takes visitors through 6,000 sq. ft. of artifacts, exhibits and images covering nearly 400 years of National Guard history in vivid detail.
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum
Upper Northwest
Zenith Gallery, the premiere source of art in WDC, 45 years, hundreds of artists in a wide range of styles & mediums from monumental to small.
Find Inspiration at the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum
National Mall
Smithsonian Associates—the largest museum-based education program in the world—produces vibrant educational and cultural programming that brings the Smithsonian to life