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| x American University Museum |
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The American University Museum is located in the Katzen Arts Center at the American University in Washington, DC. It is a three-story, 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m) museum and sculpture garden located within the university’s Katzen Arts Center. The...
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| x Anacostia Museum |
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The Anacostia Community Museum is a Smithsonian Institution museum in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States, opened in 1967. Its focus is the national history and culture of African Americans, for presentation to scholars and...
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| x Art Museum of the Americas |
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Art gallery | 1976 |
The Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) is an art museum located in Washington, D.C., primarily devoted to exhibiting works of modern and contemporary art from Latin America and the Caribbean. The museum was formally established in 1976 by the...
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| x Arthur M. Sackler Gallery |
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The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, along with the Freer Gallery of Art, is an Asian art museum that helps form the national museums of Asian art of the Smithsonian Institution. It's collection includes 9,917 Asian art objects
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| x City Museum of Washington, D.C. |
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History museum | 2003 |
The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., is an educational foundation and museum dedicated to preserving and displaying the history of Washington, D.C. The society provides lectures, exhibits, classes, community events, and other educational...
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| x Corcoran Gallery of Art |
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The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington, DC. The museum's main focus is American art. The permanent collection includes works by Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Ian Hornak, Paul Manship,...
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| x Decatur House |
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Decatur House is one of the oldest surviving homes in Washington, D.C., and one of only three remaining houses in the country designed by neoclassical architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Completed in 1818 for naval hero Stephen Decatur and his wife,...
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| x Dumbarton Oaks |
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Art museum | 1940 |
Dumbarton Oaks is a 19th century Federal-style mansion with famous gardens in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It currently houses the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, a center for scholarship in Byzantine studies, Pre...
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| x Folger Shakespeare Library |
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The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare...
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| x Frederick Douglass National Historic Site |
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The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, administered by the National Park Service, is located at 1411 W St., SE in Anacostia, a neighborhood east of the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington, D.C.. Established in 1988 as a National Historic...
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| x Freer Gallery of Art |
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The Freer Gallery of Art, along with the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, forms the Smithsonian Institution's national museums of Asian art. The Freer contains art from East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Muslim world, the ancient Near East, and...
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| x Hillwood Museum & Gardens |
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Hillwood Museum & Gardens is a decorative arts museum in Washington, D.C., USA. It is the former home and garden of Marjorie Merriweather Post.
As she arranged her divorce from her third husband Joseph E. Davies, Post initiated a search for a new...
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| x Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden |
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The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum located in Washington, D.C. on the National Mall and designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft. It is part of the Smithsonian Institution. It was conceived as the United States' museum of...
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| x International Spy Museum |
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The International Spy Museum is a privately owned museum dedicated to the field of espionage located in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C., across the street from the Old Patent Office Building (which houses the Smithsonian American...
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| x Kreeger Museum |
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Art gallery | 1994 |
The Kreeger Museum is a private museum located in Washington D.C. at the former home of David and Carmen Kreeger, and first opened in 1994. The collection features 19th and 20th century paintings and sculptures, with works by internationally known...
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| x Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum |
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Jewish museum | 1969 |
The Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum, located in the Judiciary Square neighborhood of Washington, D.C., houses the oldest surviving synagogue building in the District. It was erected in 1876 by the Adas Israel Congregation. The museum is...
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| x Marian Koshland Science Museum |
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The Marian Koshland Science Museum of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) features exhibits that present modern science and scientific issues in an accessible way, geared for the general public. The museum, located in Washington, D.C.,...
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| x Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site |
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The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site preserves the house of Mary McLeod Bethune, located in Northwest Washington, D.C., at 1318 Vermont Avenue. National Park Service rangers offer tours of the home, and a video is shown about...
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| x National Air and Space Museum |
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Science museum | 1946 |
The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution is a museum in Washington, D.C., United States, and is the most popular of the Smithsonian museums. It maintains the largest collection of aircraft and spacecraft in the world....
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| x National Aquarium in Washington, D.C. | Zoo |
The National Aquarium in Washington, D.C. is an aquarium in Washington D.C. It is located in the Herbert C. Hoover Building (Department of Commerce headquarters), which is bounded by 14th Street NW on the east, 15th Street NW on the west,...
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| x National Building Museum |
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The National Building Museum, in Washington, D.C., United States, is a museum of "architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning". It was created by an act of Congress in 1980, and is a private non-profit institution; it is...
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| x National Gallery of Art |
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Art gallery | 1938 |
The National Gallery of Art is a national art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum was established in 1938 by the United States Congress, with funds for construction and a substantial art collection donated by Andrew W...
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| x National Museum of African American History and Culture | History museum |
The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is a Smithsonian Institution museum established in 2003. It will be built on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.. The Smithsonian's Board of Regents selected a site in 2006...
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| x National Museum of African Art |
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The National Museum of African Art is a museum that is part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.. Located on the National Mall, the museum specializes in African art and culture. It was established as a private museum in 1964, and...
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| x National Museum of Crime & Punishment |
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The National Museum of Crime & Punishment is a privately owned museum dedicated to the history of criminology and penology in America. It is located in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C., half a block south of the Gallery Place...
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| x National Museum of Health and Medicine |
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The National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) — originally known as the Army Medical Museum (AMM) — is a museum in Washington, D.C., USA. An element of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), the NMHM is a member of the National Health...
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| x National Museum of Natural History |
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Natural history | 1910 |
The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. Admission is free and the museum is open 364 days a year.
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| x National Museum of the American Indian |
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The National Museum of the American Indian is a museum dedicated to the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere. It was established in 1989 through an Act of Congress. Operating under the...
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| x National Museum of Women in the Arts |
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Art gallery | 1981 |
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C. is the only museum solely dedicated to celebrating women’s achievements in the visual, performing, and literary arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and...
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| x National Portrait Gallery |
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The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in Washington, D.C., administered by the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous individual Americans.
It resides in the National Historic Landmarked Old Patent Office...
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| x National Postal Museum |
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The National Postal Museum, located in Washington, D.C., USA, was established through joint agreement between the United States Postal Service and the Smithsonian Institution and opened in 1993. The museum is located across the street from Union...
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| x National Women's History Museum | History museum |
The National Women's History Museum (NWHM), founded in 1996 by Karen Staser and based in Alexandria, Virginia, USA, is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and celebrating the diverse historic contributions of...
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| x Newseum |
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Journalism | 1997 |
The Newseum is an interactive museum of news and journalism located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C. The seven-level, 250,000 square foot museum features 15 theaters and 14 galleries. The Newseum's Berlin Wall Gallery includes the...
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| x Old Stone House |
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The Old Stone House is the oldest standing building in Washington, D.C., United States. The house is also Washington's last Pre-Revolutionary Colonial building on its original foundation. Built in 1765, Old Stone House is located at 3051 M Street,...
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| x Phillips Collection |
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Art gallery | 1921 |
The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H. Laughlin, a banker and co-founder of the...
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| x Pope John Paul II Cultural Center |
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The Pope John Paul II Cultural Center is a Roman Catholic museum and think tank in Washington, D.C. The concept for the center began at a meeting between Pope John Paul II and then-Bishop Adam Maida in 1988. The 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m)...
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| x Sewall-Belmont House and Museum |
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The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States, is a historic house and museum of the U.S. women's suffrage and equal-rights movements.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in...
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| x Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum is a museum in Washington, D.C. with an extensive collection of American art.
Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum has a broad variety of American art that covers all regions and art movements found in...
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| x Smithsonian Institution |
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The Smithsonian Institution (pronounced /smɪθˈsoʊnɪən/) is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and...
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| x Textile Museum |
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The Textile Museum is a private museum located in the Kalorama neighborhood of Northwest Washington, D.C., USA. The museum was founded by collector George Hewitt Myers in 1925 and is housed in two historic buildings: the Myers family home, designed...
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| x The Bead Museum |
The Bead Museum is a museum of beads located in Glendale, Arizona It is located at 5754 W. Glenn Dr. Glendale, AZ 85301
The Bead Museum was founded to establish a safe haven for a permanent collection of beads and adornments of all cultures, past...
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| x The Octagon House |
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Architecture museum | 1970 |
The Octagon House, also known as the Colonel John Tayloe House, is located at 1799 New York Avenue, Northwest in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C.. It was designed by William Thornton, the architect of the U.S. Capitol, and built...
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| x Tudor Place |
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Tudor Place is a mansion in Washington, D.C. that was originally the home of Thomas Peter and his wife, Martha Parke Custis Peter, the step-granddaughter of George Washington, who left her the $8,000 in his will that was used to purchase the...
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| x United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' living memorial to The Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM is dedicated to help leaders and citizens of the world to confront hatred,...
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| x Woodrow Wilson House |
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The Woodrow Wilson House was the residence of the Twenty-Eighth President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson after he left office. It is at 2340 S Street NW on Washington, D.C.'s Embassy Row. On February 3rd, 1924, Wilson died in an upstairs...
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