Cultural Points of Interest in Washington
MUSEUMS:
The Smithsonian Institution (Entrance to these museums is free)
- The Smithsonian Institution Building ("The Castle")
1000 Jefferson Drive SW
(202) 633-1000 - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
7th Street and Independence Avenue SW
(202) 633-4674 - National Air and Space Museum
5th Street and Independence Avenue SW
(202) 633-1000 - Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (companion museum to Air and Space)
Chantilly, Va. (near Washington Dulles International Airport)
(202) 357-2700 - National Gallery of Art
6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
(202) 737-4215 - National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
7th Street and Constitution Avenue NW - National Museum of Natural History
10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
(202) 633-1000 - National Museum of American History
Includes a collection of historic musical instruments
14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
(202) 633-1000 - The Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building (CLOSED)
1002 Jefferson Drive SW
(202) 633-1000 - National Museum of African Art
950 Independence Avenue SW
(202) 633-4600 - Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Jefferson Drive and 12th Street SW/1050 Independence Avenue SW
(202) 633-4880 - National Museum of the American Indian
Fourth Street and Independence Avenue SW
(202) 633-1000 - National Portrait Gallery (CLOSED)
Eighth and F Streets NW
(202) 275-1738 - Smithsonian American Art Museum (CLOSED)
Only the Renwick Gallery is open (17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW)
(202) 275-1500 - Anacostia Museum/Center for African American History and Culture
1901 Fort Place SE
(202) 633-4820 - National Zoological Park
3001 Connecticut Avenue NW
(202) 633-4800
Library of Congress
Second Street and Independence Avenue SE (Metro: Blue/Orange Capitol South)
(202) 707-5000
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street SE
(202) 544–4600
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue NW
(202) 783-5000
Corcoran Gallery of Art
500 17th Street NW
(202) 639-1700
Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street NW
(202) 387-2151
The Kreeger Museum (home designed by Philip Johnson)
2401 Foxhall Road NW
(202) 338-3552
Hillwood Museum and Gardens
4155 Linnean Avenue NW
(202) 686-8500
Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd Street NW
(202) 339-6401
Although the gardens are open, the museum is closed for renovation: 20 objects from its Byzantine Collection are on display at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore
National Building Museum
401 F Street NW
(202) 272-2448
Art Museum of the Americas
201 18th Street NW
(202) 458-6301
Anderson House Museum (home of the Society of the Cincinnati)
2118 Massachusetts Avenue NW
(202) 785-2040
National Cryptologic Museum (National Security Agency)
9800 Savage Road (Fort Meade, Md.)
(301) 688-5849
National Geographic Society—Explorers Hall
1145 17th Street NW
(202) 857-7588
National Headquarters of the Daughters of the American Revolution
1776 D Street NW
(202) 879-3254
Pope John Paul II Cultural Center
3900 Harewood Road NE
(202) 635-5400
U.S. Chess Center Museum and Hall of Fame
1501 M Street NW
(202) 857-4922
Woodrow Wilson House
2340 S Street NW
(202) 387-4062
MEMORIALS AND HISTORICAL SITES:
National Mall
For National Mall information, call (202) 426-6841
- Consult and/or print this map of the National Mall (.PDF file)
- Washington Monument
Constitution Avenue and 16th Street NW - Lincoln Memorial
Constitution Avenue and 23rd Street NW - Jefferson Memorial
Tidal Basin - FDR Memorial
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall)
17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW - Korean War Veterans Memorial
African American Civil War Memorial (there is also a Museum at 1200 U Street NW)
U and 10th Streets NW
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House
1318 Vermont Avenue NW
(202) 673-2402
Arlington Memorial Bridge
Span between Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cememtery
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington, Virginia
(703) 607-8000
Historic Congressional Cemetery (location of one of the September 11 Memorial Groves)
1801 E Street SE
(202) 543-0539
Memorial Groves
Nine outdoor memorial spaces honoring the memory of the victims of the September 11 attacks
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Between Georgetown and Cumberland, Md.
Ford's Theatre amd Petersen House
10th and E Streets NW
Old Stone House
Oldest building in Washington, built in 1765
Rock Creek Park
Frederick Douglass House
1411 W Street SE
(202) 426-5961
National Aquarium—Washington
14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Department of Commerce Building
(202) 482-2825
U.S. Botanic Garden
245 First Street SW
(202) 225-8333
U.S. Naval Observatory
3450 Massachusetts Avenue NW
(202) 762-1489
U.S. Navy Memorial and Naval Heritage Center
701 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 123
(202) 737-2300
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW
(202) 488-0400
GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS:
United States Capitol
East Capitol Street and 1st Street NW
(202) 225-6827
National Archives
700 Constitution Avenue NW
(866) 272-6272
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
(202) 456-2121
FBI Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
(202) 324-3000
Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Department of the Treasury, produces bills of federal currency)
14th and C Streets SW
(202) 874-3019
National Academies of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue NW
(202) 334-2415
RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS:
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Roman Catholic)
Fourth Street and Michigan Avenue NE (Metro: Red Line, Brookland/CUA)
Daily Masses, Mass with Professional Choir on Sundays, 12 noon
(202) 526-8300
Washington National Cathedral (Episcopalian)
Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues NW
Choir of Men and Boys (or Men and Girls): Sundays, 11 am Holy Eucharist (nave), 4 pm Evensong (great choir); Monday to Thursday, 5:30 pm Choral Evensong
(202) 537-6200
OUTSIDE OF WASHINGTON:
Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens
3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway (Mount Vernon, Va.)
(703) 780-2000
Monticello (home of Thomas Jefferson)
Route 53 (Charlottesville, Va.)
(434) 984-9822
Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive (Baltimore, Md.)
(410) 396-7100
Walters Art Museum
600 North Charles Street (Baltimore, Md.)
(410) 547-9000
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