Explore museums in Washington D.C

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It is currently undergoing a large-scale, multi-year renovation that will introduce all new galleries and public spaces. The Museum is currently CLOSED and will introduce the first eight galleries, and reopen the popular Planetarium later this year. The Museum will have a phased reopening of the remaining galleries in 2024 and 2025.\n\nThe museum is located on Jefferson Drive, between 4th and 7th Streets, SW., and admission is always free. Regular hours are 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.\n\nThe easiest way to reach the museum is via Metrorail or Metrobus. The closest Metro stop is The closest metro station is L’Enfant Plaza: (Blue, Green, Orange, Silver, and Yellow lines). The 32, 34 and 36 Metrobus routes, as well as the DC Circulator’s National Mall route, will all take you to the Mall, which you can explore in full once you’ve experienced the Air and Space Museum’s wonders. The facility is handicap accessible."},{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FLNV55n8pLpiUHM5s5t2V%2Fmp3-output-ttsfree(dot)com.mp3?alt=media&token=d6432908-2d7a-4317-98f4-00d471a555c5"},{"metadata":{"width":576,"height":1024},"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FLNV55n8pLpiUHM5s5t2V%2FSnaptik_6910989150967663877_trip-hacks-dc.mp4?alt=media&token=8934211e-bc67-4890-861e-80ccd066a253"}]},{"address":"National Gallery of Art","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.14321712068773834,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":38.891324517223325,"longitude":-77.0201713},"media":[{"type":"text","content":"# National Gallery of Art"},{"metadata":{"width":564,"height":846},"type":"img","version":1,"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FLNV55n8pLpiUHM5s5t2V%2Fa6376abafa929f0e79197447dc60a26c.jpg?alt=media&token=90119082-8fc4-4887-8c67-de314c2ce775"},{"type":"text","content":"The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress. Andrew W. Mellon donated a substantial art collection and funds for construction. The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.\n\nThe Gallery's campus includes the original neoclassical West Building designed by John Russell Pope, which is linked underground to the modern East Building, designed by I. M. Pei, and the 6.1-acre (25,000 m2) Sculpture Garden. The Gallery often presents temporary special exhibitions spanning the world and the history of art. It is one of the largest museums in North America.\n\nFor the breadth, scope, and magnitude of its collections, the National Gallery is widely considered to be one of the greatest museums in the United States of America, often ranking alongside the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Of the top three art museums in the United States by annual visitors, it is the only one that has no admission fee. in 2021 it attracted 1,704,606 visitors, and ranked fifth on the list of most visited art museums in the world."},{"type":"link","content":"https://www.nga.gov/"},{"metadata":{"width":576,"height":1024},"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FLNV55n8pLpiUHM5s5t2V%2FSnaptik_7010891023840709893_paulyzworld.mp4?alt=media&token=250a4662-170c-42a0-9683-5ebe1c02eb9a"}]},{"address":"Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.14321712068773834,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":38.89168536280999,"longitude":-77.0260486},"media":[{"type":"text","content":"# Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History"},{"metadata":{"width":436,"height":662},"type":"img","version":1,"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FLNV55n8pLpiUHM5s5t2V%2Fcc06e0412bfa148dbacb387d910d3f2d.jpg?alt=media&token=ba2cb41d-61c9-4630-b1cf-64224b38edd7"},{"type":"text","content":"The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum curated by the Smithsonian Institution, located at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. The museum is free to visit and is open 364 days a year. In 2016, it had 7.1 million visitors, making it the fourth most visited museum in the world and the most visited natural history museum in the world.\n\nOpened in 1910, the National Mall's museum was one of the first Smithsonian buildings built exclusively to house national collections and research facilities. The main building covers approximately 140,000 m² with 30,200 m² of exhibition space and public spaces, and housing for over 1,000 employees.\n\nThe museum's collection contains more than 126 million specimens including plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts. In 2016, the second most visited of all Smithsonian museums. It is also home to about 185 professional natural history scientists - the largest group of scientists specializing in the study of natural and cultural history in the world."},{"metadata":{"width":576,"height":1024},"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FLNV55n8pLpiUHM5s5t2V%2FSnaptik_7077970634298461486_officialtrashpirates.mp4?alt=media&token=e13d99b3-e12a-4afa-8717-7143e9355293"},{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FLNV55n8pLpiUHM5s5t2V%2F6b0a5efb-f719-4506-ab34-c68558cc836d.mp3?alt=media&token=bbe1c41b-4b93-4695-b882-b13bcd750ce4"}]},{"address":"Smithsonian National Museum of American History","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.14321712068773834,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":38.891276019234326,"longitude":-77.02999464999999},"media":[{"type":"text","content":"# Smithsonian National Museum of American History"},{"metadata":{"width":246,"height":359},"type":"img","version":1,"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FLNV55n8pLpiUHM5s5t2V%2Fd45e26b187e9de752c05e6edd3795d08.jpg?alt=media&token=e365ab54-375e-4c8e-8a7a-6a79546a1c58"},{"type":"text","content":"The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific, and military history. Among the items on display is the original Star-Spangled Banner. The museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution and located on the National Mall at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.\n\nThe museum underwent an $85 million renovation from September 5, 2006 to November 21, 2008, during which time it was closed. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill provided the architecture and interior design services for the renovation, led by Gary Haney.[8] Major changes made during the renovation include:\n\nA new, five-story sky-lit atrium, which is surrounded by displays of artifacts that showcase the breadth of the museum's collection.\nA new, grand staircase that links the museum's first and second floors.\nA new welcome center, and the addition of six landmark objects to orient visitors.\nNew galleries, such as the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Hall of Invention.\nAn environmentally controlled chamber to protect the original Star-Spangled Banner flag.\nIn 2012, the museum began a $37 million renovation of the west wing to add new exhibition spaces, public plazas and an education center.The renovation will also include panoramic windows overlooking the National Mall on all three floors and new interactive features to the exhibits.The first floor of the west wing reopened on July 1, 2015 with the second and third floors of the west wing reopening in 2016 and 2017, respectively."},{"metadata":{"width":576,"height":1024},"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FLNV55n8pLpiUHM5s5t2V%2FSnaptik_6927321234225040646_trip-hacks-dc.mp4?alt=media&token=72fc7fe1-a280-43fd-bfd8-5e6d3130ad2b"}]},{"address":"National Museum of African American History and Culture","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.14321712068773834,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":38.89071786280953,"longitude":-77.03247375000001},"media":[{"type":"text","content":"# National Museum of African American History and Culture"},{"metadata":{"width":564,"height":752},"type":"img","version":1,"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FLNV55n8pLpiUHM5s5t2V%2F2a9074bf242bccd3ea90246f4a874d27.jpg?alt=media&token=e7104271-5b44-4875-aaab-fd6e90ca25fd"},{"type":"text","content":"The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is a Smithsonian Institution museum located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It was established in December 2003 and opened its permanent home in September 2016 with a ceremony led by President Barack Obama.\n\nEarly efforts to establish a federally owned museum featuring African-American history and culture can be traced to 1915, although the modern push for such an organization did not begin until the 1970s. After years of little success, a much more serious legislative push began in 1988 that led to authorization of the museum in 2003. A site was selected in 2006, and a design submitted by Freelon Group/Adjaye Associates/Davis Brody Bond was chosen in 2009. Construction began in 2012 and the museum completed in 2016.\n\nThe NMAAHC is the world's largest museum dedicated to African-American history and culture. It ranked as the fourth most-visited Smithsonian museum in its first full year of operation. The museum has more than 40,000 objects in its collection, although only about 3,500 items are on display. The 350,000-square-foot (33,000 m2), 10 story building (five above and five below ground) and its exhibits have won critical praise."},{"metadata":{"width":576,"height":1024},"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FLNV55n8pLpiUHM5s5t2V%2FSnaptik_6993672057229790469_blackgirlsexploredc.mp4?alt=media&token=e3d99132-675d-4b1d-93b7-4a3e47776863"}]},{"address":"United States Holocaust Memorial Museum","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.14321712068773834,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":38.886677662807685,"longitude":-77.03286655000001},"media":[{"type":"text","content":"# United States Holocaust Memorial Museum"},{"metadata":{"width":564,"height":317},"type":"img","version":1,"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FLNV55n8pLpiUHM5s5t2V%2F4aa0f36097b7498d48339c355ddc6294.jpg?alt=media&token=663a8369-dd41-46cc-a4c7-ff1daa393173"},{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FLNV55n8pLpiUHM5s5t2V%2Fca3cd0e2-7b38-4380-9ee7-1d836695202e.mp3?alt=media&token=7e2cc1ae-a7c7-44ab-ac37-3d63e4116192"},{"type":"text","content":"The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM provides for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history. It is dedicated to helping leaders and citizens of the world confront hatred, prevent genocide, promote human dignity, and strengthen democracy.\n\nThe museum has an operating budget, as of September 2018, of $120.6 million.[3] In 2008, the museum had a staff of about 400 employees, 125 contractors, 650 volunteers, 91 Holocaust survivors, and 175,000 members. It had local offices in New York City, Boston, Boca Raton, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Dallas.\n\nSince its dedication on April 22, 1993, the museum has had nearly 40 million visitors, including more than 10 million school children, 99 heads of state, and more than 3,500 foreign officials from over 211 countries and territories. The museum's visitors came from all over the world, and less than 10 percent of the museum's visitors are Jewish. Its website had 25 million visits in 2008, from an average of 100 countries daily. Thirty-five percent of these visits were from outside the United States.\n\nThe USHMM's collections contain more than 12,750 artifacts, 49 million pages of archival documents, 85,000 historical photographs, a list of over 200,000 registered survivors and their families, 1,000 hours of archival footage, 93,000 library items, and 9,000 oral history testimonies. It also has teacher fellows in every state in the United States and, since 1994, almost 400 university fellows from 26 countries.\n\nResearchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have documented 42,500 ghettos and concentration camps created by the Nazis throughout German-controlled areas of Europe from 1933 to 1945.\n\nThough the museum is located geographically in the same cluster as the Smithsonian museums, contrary to popular conception, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is an independent entity, with its own governance structure. However, the museum and the Smithsonian regularly participate in joint projects."},{"metadata":{"width":576,"height":1024},"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FLNV55n8pLpiUHM5s5t2V%2FSnaptik_7100172582560845102_noelle.mp4?alt=media&token=7b050438-4b1d-4a5f-9864-b8b94cf0f46f"}]}]