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Notable museums, galleries and exhibition halls — hours and descriptions.

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military museum

African American Civil War Museum

America's Islamic Heritage Museum

museum

American Poetry Museum

American University Museum at the Katzen

database

Anacostia Community Museum

local

Arlington Historical Museum

Opening hours
  • Sat: 13:00-17:00
  • Sun: 13:00-17:00
museum

Armenian Genocide Museum of America

museum

Army Medical Museum and Library

Art Museum of the Americas

Opening hours
  • Tue: 10:00-17:00
  • Wed: 10:00-17:00
  • Thu: 10:00-17:00
  • Fri: 10:00-17:00
  • Sat: 10:00-17:00
  • Sun: 10:00-17:00
art

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-17:30
  • Tue: 10:00-17:30
  • Wed: 10:00-17:30
  • Thu: 10:00-17:30
  • Fri: 10:00-17:30
  • Sat: 10:00-17:30
  • Sun: 10:00-17:30
museum

Arts and Industries Building

B'Nai B'Rith Klutznick Museum

Capital Jewish Museum

college

Charles Sumner School

museum

DAR Museum

Opening hours
  • Mon: 08:30-16:00
  • Tue: 08:30-16:00
  • Wed: 08:30-16:00
  • Thu: 08:30-16:00
  • Fri: 08:30-16:00
  • Sat: 09:00-17:00

DC History Center

Opening hours
  • Thu: 12:00-19:00
  • Fri: 12:00-19:00
  • Sat: 12:00-18:00
  • Sun: 12:00-18:00
local_history

Dacor Bacon House Museum

Opening hours
  • Mon: 02:30-16:30
  • Wed: 02:30-16:30
  • Thu: 02:30-16:30
history

Decatur Carriage House

history

Decatur House

Diplomatic Reception Rooms Museum

Drug Enforcement Agency Museum and Visitors Center

research institute

Dumbarton Oaks

art

East Wing National Gallery of Art

Ford's Theatre National Historic Site

National Historic Site

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

GWU Museum and Textile Museum

Opening hours
  • Tue: 11:00-19:00
  • Wed: 11:00-19:00
  • Thu: 11:00-19:00
  • Sat: 10:00-17:00
  • Sun: 13:00-17:00

Heurich House Museum

museum

Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens

Opening hours
  • Tue: 10:00-17:00
  • Wed: 10:00-17:00
  • Thu: 10:00-17:00
  • Fri: 10:00-17:00
  • Sat: 10:00-17:00
  • Sun: 10:00-17:00
art museum

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

library

Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

museum

House of the Temple

Howard University Museum

museum

Interior Museum

Opening hours
  • Mon: 09:00-17:00
  • Tue: 09:00-17:00
  • Wed: 09:00-17:00
  • Thu: 09:00-17:00
  • Fri: 09:00-17:00
museum

International Spy Museum

nature

James I. Mayer Center for Environmental Education

Opening hours
  • Tue: 10:00-17:00
  • Wed: 10:00-17:00
  • Thu: 10:00-17:00
  • Fri: 10:00-17:00
  • Sat: 10:00-17:00
  • Sun: 13:00-17:00
museum

Laogai Museum

wax museum

Madame Tussauds Washington D.C.

townhouse

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site

Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington

Museum of Illusions

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-20:00
  • Tue: 10:00-20:00
  • Wed: 10:00-20:00
  • Thu: 10:00-20:00
  • Sun: 10:00-20:00
  • Fri: 10:00-21:00
  • Sat: 10:00-21:00
private museum

Museum of the Bible

Museum of the Palestinian People

Opening hours
  • Fri: 15:00-20:00
  • Sat: 12:00-18:00
  • Sun: 12:00-17:00
aviation museum

National Air and Space Museum

collection

National Bonsai and Penjing Museum

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-16:00
  • Tue: 10:00-16:00
  • Wed: 10:00-16:00
  • Thu: 10:00-16:00
  • Fri: 10:00-16:00
  • Sat: 10:00-16:00
  • Sun: 10:00-16:00
museum

National Building Museum

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-17:00
  • Tue: 10:00-17:00
  • Wed: 10:00-17:00
  • Thu: 10:00-17:00
  • Fri: 10:00-17:00
  • Sat: 10:00-17:00
  • Sun: 11:00-17:00
children's museum

National Children's Museum

National Deaf Life Museum at Gallaudet University

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-16:00
  • Tue: 10:00-16:00
  • Wed: 10:00-16:00
  • Thu: 10:00-16:00
  • Fri: 10:00-16:00
art

National Gallery of Art

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-17:00
  • Tue: 10:00-17:00
  • Wed: 10:00-17:00
  • Thu: 10:00-17:00
  • Fri: 10:00-17:00
  • Sat: 10:00-17:00
  • Sun: 10:00-17:00

National Geographic Society

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-18:00
  • Tue: 10:00-18:00
  • Wed: 10:00-18:00
  • Thu: 10:00-18:00
  • Fri: 10:00-18:00
  • Sat: 10:00-18:00
  • Sun: 10:00-18:00
military

National Guard Memorial Museum

Opening hours
  • Mon: 09:00-16:00
  • Tue: 09:00-16:00
  • Wed: 09:00-16:00
  • Thu: 09:00-16:00
  • Fri: 09:00-16:00
military

National Museum Of American Jewish Military History

Opening hours
  • Mon: 09:00-17:00
  • Tue: 09:00-17:00
  • Wed: 09:00-17:00
  • Thu: 09:00-17:00
  • Fri: 09:00-17:00

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-17:30
  • Tue: 10:00-17:30
  • Wed: 10:00-17:30
  • Thu: 10:00-17:30
  • Fri: 10:00-17:30
  • Sat: 10:00-17:30
  • Sun: 10:00-17:30
art

National Museum of African Art

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-17:30
  • Tue: 10:00-17:30
  • Wed: 10:00-17:30
  • Thu: 10:00-17:30
  • Fri: 10:00-17:30
  • Sat: 10:00-17:30
  • Sun: 10:00-17:30

National Museum of American Diplomacy

history

National Museum of American History

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-17:30
  • Tue: 10:00-17:30
  • Wed: 10:00-17:30
  • Thu: 10:00-17:30
  • Fri: 10:00-17:30
  • Sat: 10:00-17:30
  • Sun: 10:00-17:30
museum

National Museum of Crime & Punishment

tourist attraction

National Museum of Natural History

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-17:30
  • Tue: 10:00-17:30
  • Wed: 10:00-17:30
  • Thu: 10:00-17:30
  • Fri: 10:00-17:30
  • Sat: 10:00-17:30
  • Sun: 10:00-17:30
museum

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-17:00
  • Tue: 10:00-17:00
  • Wed: 10:00-17:00
  • Thu: 10:00-17:00
  • Fri: 10:00-17:00
  • Sat: 10:00-17:00
  • Sun: 12:00-17:00
database

National Museum of the American Indian

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-17:30
  • Tue: 10:00-17:30
  • Wed: 10:00-17:30
  • Thu: 10:00-17:30
  • Fri: 10:00-17:30
  • Sat: 10:00-17:30
  • Sun: 10:00-17:30

National Museum of the U.S. Navy

Opening hours
  • Sat: 10:00-16:00
military museum

National Museum of the United States Navy

art museum

National Portrait Gallery

Opening hours
  • Wed: 11:30-19:00
  • Thu: 11:30-19:00
  • Fri: 11:30-19:00
  • Sat: 11:30-19:00
  • Sun: 11:30-19:00
history

National Postal Museum

library

Naval History & Heritage Command

Navy Memorial Visitor Center

Opening hours
  • Mon: 09:30-17:00
  • Tue: 09:30-17:00
  • Wed: 09:30-17:00
  • Thu: 09:30-17:00
  • Fri: 09:30-17:00
  • Sat: 09:30-17:00
  • Sun: 09:30-17:00
museum

Newseum

Old Post Office Tower and Museum

history

Old Stone House

Opening hours
  • Mon: 12:00-17:00
  • Fri: 12:00-17:00
  • Sat: 11:00-19:00
  • Sun: 11:00-19:00

Petersen House

Planet Word

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-17:00
  • Wed: 10:00-17:00
  • Thu: 10:00-17:00
  • Fri: 10:00-17:00
  • Sat: 10:00-18:00
  • Sun: 10:00-18:00
plaster cast gallery

Plaster Cast Collection of the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution

Pope John Paul II National Shrine

art

Renwick Gallery

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-17:30
  • Tue: 10:00-17:30
  • Wed: 10:00-17:30
  • Thu: 10:00-17:30
  • Fri: 10:00-17:30
  • Sat: 10:00-17:30
  • Sun: 10:00-17:30
nature

Rock Creek Park Nature Center and Planetarium

Opening hours
  • Thu: 09:00-17:00
  • Fri: 09:00-17:00
  • Sat: 09:00-17:00
  • Sun: 09:00-17:00
art

Rubell Museum DC

Opening hours
  • Wed: 11:00-17:00
  • Thu: 11:00-17:00
  • Fri: 11:00-18:00
  • Sat: 11:00-18:00
  • Sun: 11:00-17:00

Sewall-Belmont House and Museum

database

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Opening hours
  • Mon: 11:30-19:00
  • Tue: 11:30-19:00
  • Wed: 11:30-19:00
  • Thu: 11:30-19:00
  • Fri: 11:30-19:00
  • Sat: 11:30-19:00
  • Sun: 11:30-19:00

Smithsonian Institution Anacostia Community Museum

Sumner School

The Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum

The People’s House

The Phillips Collection

Opening hours
  • Tue: 10:00-17:00
  • Wed: 10:00-17:00
  • Thu: 10:00-17:00
  • Fri: 10:00-17:00
  • Sat: 10:00-17:00
  • Sun: 12:00-19:00

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-17:20
  • Tue: 10:00-17:20
  • Wed: 10:00-17:20
  • Thu: 10:00-17:20
  • Fri: 10:00-17:20
  • Sat: 10:00-17:20
  • Sun: 10:00-17:20
history

US National Archives

Opening hours
  • Mon: 10:00-17:30
  • Tue: 10:00-17:30
  • Wed: 10:00-17:30
  • Thu: 10:00-17:30
  • Fri: 10:00-17:30
  • Sat: 10:00-17:30
  • Sun: 10:00-17:30
destroyer

USS Barry

museum

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site

National Historic Site in Washington, D.C.

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Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

preserves the Washington, D.C. home and estate of Frederick Douglass

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American Poetry Museum

museum of poetry in Washington DC, United States

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National Portrait Gallery

art museum in Washington, D.C., a division of the Smithsonian Institution

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

fine arts museum in Washington, D.C., a division of the Smithsonian Institution

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Interior Museum

museum in Washington, D.C.

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DAR Museum

museum in Washington, D.C.

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Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

historical society in Washington, D.C.

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Plaster Cast Collection of the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution

plaster cast collection of ancient sculptures at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution

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Armenian Genocide Museum of America

proposed Armenian museum in Washington, D.C., United States

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African American Civil War Museum

museum in Washington, D.C.

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Army Medical Museum and Library

United States historic place

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National Museum of the United States Navy

flagship museum of the United States Navy

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National Bonsai and Penjing Museum

museum devoted to Bonsai at the U.S. National Arboretum

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Naval History & Heritage Command

responsible for the preservation, analysis, and dissemination of U.S. naval history

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National Museum of Crime & Punishment

former private crime museum

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International Spy Museum

museum in Washington, D.C., United States

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Dumbarton Oaks

research institution concerning Byzantine and Pre-Columbian studies and garden and landscape studies

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National Air and Space Museum

aerospace museum in Washington, D.C.

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Newseum

museum dedicated to news and journalism in Washington, D.C.

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Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens

decorative arts museum in Washington, D.C., USA

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National Museum of the American Indian

museum in Washington, D.C., a division of the Smithsonian Institution

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National Museum of Women in the Arts

art museum in Washington, D.C., United States

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National Museum of Natural History

natural history museum in Washington, D.C.

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National Children's Museum

children's museum

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

United States' official memorial to the Holocaust in Washington, D.C.

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House of the Temple

masonic temple in Washington D.C.

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

art museum in Washington, D.C., a division of the Smithsonian Institution

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Anacostia Community Museum

cultural museum in Washington, D.C., a division of the Smithsonian Institution

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National Building Museum

museum in Washington, D.C.

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Museum of the Bible

history museum in Washington DC, United States

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Arts and Industries Building

Smithsonian Institution building

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Madame Tussauds Washington D.C.

wax museum in Washington, 2007 to 2020

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Laogai Museum

museum in Washington, D.C. about human rights in the People's Republic of China

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USS Barry

1955 Forrest Sherman-class destroyer

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