Visiting Washington D.C.
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Guides
Getting Around
Airports
Washington Monument
Location: National Mall
Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange)
Hours: 9AM – 5PM daily; Closed Christmas and July 4
Phone: 202-426-6841
Notes: The monument is open from Free tickets are available from the ticket kiosk at 15th St. at the base of the monument. Lines can be heavy, and may form as early as 7 a.m. Tickets can be resesrved for $1.50 at www.recreation.gov
National Gallery of Art of Sculpture Garden
Location: 7th and Constitution Avenue, NW
Metro: Archives (Yellow/Green) or Federal Triangle (Blue/Orange)
Hours: Mon. – Sat. 10AM to 5PM; Sun. 11AM to 6PM
Phone: 202-842-6690; 202-842-6176 (TDD)
Smithsonian Information Center (The Castle)
Location: 1000 Jefferson Drive, SW
Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange)
Hours: 8:30AM – 5:30PM daily; Closed Christmas
Phone: 202-633-1000; 202-633-5285 (TTY)
Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture
Location: 1901 Fort Place, SE (in the Arts and Industries Building)
Metro: 1.5 mile walk from Congress Heights (Green)
Hours: 10AM – 5PM daily
Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Location: 1050 Independence Avenue, SW
Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange)
Hours: 10AM – 5:30PM daily; Closed Christmas
Phone: 202-633-1000
Notes: Asian art from ancient times to the present and 19th- and early 20th-century American art
Arts and Industries Building
Location: 900 Jefferson Drive, SW
Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange)
Hours: 10AM – 5:30PM daily; Closed Christmas
Phone: 202-633-1000; 202-633-5285 (TTY)
Notes: Changing exhibitions, Discovery Theater (for children)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Independence Avenue and 7th Street, SW
Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange)
Hours: 8:30AM – 5:30PM daily; Closed Christmas
Phone: 202-633-1000; 202-633-5285 (TTY)
Notes: Modern and contemporary art
National Air and Space Museum
Location: Independence Ave. and 6th Street, SW
Metro: L’Enfant Plaza (Blue/Orange; Yellow/Green)
Hours: 10AM – 5:30PM daily; Closed Christmas
Phone: 202-633-2214
National Museum of African Art
Location: 950 Independence Avenue, SW
Metro: Smithsonian (Orange/Blue)
Hours: 10AM – 5:30PM daily; Closed Christmas
Phone: 202-633-4600
Notes: Collection, study, and exhibition of African art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: 8th and F Streets, NW
Metro: Gallery Place
Hours: 11:30AM – 7AM daily; Closed Christmas
Phone: 202-633-7970; 202-633-5285 (TTY)
Notes: Painting, sculpture, graphics, folk art, and photography; 18th century to the present, special exhibitions of American art
National Museum of American History
Location: 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Metro: Federal Triangle (Blue/Orange); Smithsonian (Orange/Blue)
Hours: 10AM – 5:30PM daily; Closed Christmas
Phone: 202-633-1000
Notes: History of science, technology, society, and culture in America
National Museum of the American Indian
Location: Independence Ave & 4th Street SW
Metro: L’Enfant Plaza (Blue/Orange; Yellow/Green)
Hours: 10AM – 5:30PM; Closed Christmas
Phone: 202-633-1000
Notes: Collection, preservation, study, and exhibition of the cultures and history of the native peoples of the Americas
National Museum of Natural History
Location: 10th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Metro: Federal Triangle (Blue/Orange)
Hours: 10AM – 5:30PM daily; Closed Christmas
Phone: 202-633-1000 or 202-357-1729 (TTY)
Notes: About the natural world and our place in it
National Portrait Gallery
Location: Eighth and F Streets, NW
Metro: Gallery Place; Metro Center
Hours: 11:30AM –7:00PM daily; Closed Christmas
Phone: 202-633-1000
Notes: Portraits of distinguished Americans
National Postal Museum
Location: 2 Massachusetts Avenue N.E.
Metro: Union Station (Red)
Hours: 10 AM – 5:30 PM daily
Phone: 202-633-5555
Notes: History of postal communications and philately
National Zoological Park
Location: 3000 Block of Connecticut Avenue, NW
Metro: Woodley Park (Red)
Hours: 5/1 to 9/15: Grounds 6AM – 8PM, buildings 10AM – 6PM;
9/16 to 4/30: Grounds 6AM – 6PM, buildings 10AM – 4:30PM
Phone: 202-633-4480
Notes: Several thousand animals in a beautiful 163-acre park
Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art
Location: 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Metro: Farragut West (Blue/Orange)
Hours: 10AM – 5:30PM; Closed Christmas
Phone: 202-633-1000; 202-633-5285 (TTY)
Notes: Permanent collection and exhibitions of American crafts