DC FIRST

Smithsonian Institution (All free, most open from 10- 5:30 pm and on the National Mall)

Air and Space Museum

Website: www.nasm.si.edu/

Location:Independence Ave at 6th Street, SW

Washington, DC 20560

Metro: L’Enfant Plaza (Yellow/ Green lines), Smithsonian (Blue/ Orange lines)

Phone contact: 202-633-2214

Hours: 10am-5:30pm daily

Cost: Free

Location:10th St NW

Washington, DC 20004

Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/ Orange Lines)

Phone contact:(202) 633-1000

Hours: 10am-5:30 pm daily

Cost: Free

Museum of American Indian History

Website: www.nmai.si.edu

Location: 14 Constitution Avenue Northeast

Washington, DC 20002

Metro: L’Enfant Plaza (Blue/Orange/Green/Yellow lines).

Exit Maryland Avenue/Smithsonian Museums.

Hours: 10am-5:30pm daily

Phone contact: 202-633-1000

Cost: Free

National Zoo

Website: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/default.cfm

Location: 3001 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20008.

Metro:Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan (Red Line) or Cleveland Park (Red line)

Hours: 10am-4:30 pm daily

Phone contact: 202.633.4800 (recorded hotline)

Cost: Free

Museum of African Art

Website: http://africa.si.edu

Location:950 Independence Avenue Southwest

Washington, DC 20560

Metro: L’Enfant Plaza (Blue/Orange/Green/Yellow lines).

Exit Maryland Avenue/Smithsonian Museums.

Phone contact: (202) 633-4600

Hours: 10am-5:30 pm

Cost: Free

Portrait Gallery

Website: www.npg.si.edu

Location:800 F Street Northwest

Washington, DC 20004

Metro: Gallery Place Chinatown (Red, Yellow and Green lines)

Phone contact: (202) 633-8300

Hours: 11:30-7pm daily

Cost: Free

National Gallery of Art

Website: www.nga.gov

Location:401 Constitution Ave NW

Washington, DC 20004

Metro: Judiciary Square (Red Line), Archives (Yellow and Green lines), Smithsonian (Blue/ Orange lines)

Phone contact: (202) 842-6466

Hours: 10am- 5pm (Monday- Saturday), 11-6pm (Sunday)

Cost: Free

Museum of American Art

Website: http://americanart.si.edu

Location: 8th St NW & F St NW

Washington, DC

Metro: Gallery Place/ Chinatown (Red, Yellow, Green lines)

Phone contact: (202) 208-8113

Hours: 11:30-7pm daily

Cost: Free

Museum of American History

Website: http://americanhistory.si.edu/

Location: 4th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Metro: Federal Triangle, Smithsonian

Phone contact: (202) 633-1000

Hours: 10-5:30pm

Cost:Free

Anacostia Community Museum

Website: http://anacostia.si.edu

Location: 1901 Fort Place Southeast

Washington, DC 20020-3298

Metro: Anacostia (Green line)

Hours: 10-5pm daily

Phone contact: (202) 633-4820

Cost: Free

Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art (Asian Art)

Website: http://www.asia.si.edu/

Location: 1050 Independence Avenue, SW (Sackler Gallery), Jefferson Drive at 12th Street, SW (Freer Gallery), connected

Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange)

Phone contact: 202.633.1000

Hours: 10-5:30pm

Cost: Free

Hirschhorn Gallery of Art and Sculpture Garden (Modern Art)

Website: http://hirshhorn.si.edu/

Location: Independence Avenue at Seventh Street SW

Metro: L’Enfant Plaza (Green/Yellow, Orange/Blue

Phone contact:202-633-4674

Hours: 10-5:30pm

Cost: Free

Postal Museum

Website: http://postalmuseum.si.edu/

Location: 2 Massachusetts Ave., N.E.

Post Office Box 75039

Washington, DC 20013-5039

Metro: Union Station (Red line), Mass. Ave. exit

Phone contact:(202) 633-5555

Hours: 10-5:30pm

Cost: Free

Other Museums

International Spy Museum

Website: http://spymuseum.org 

Cost: $18

Hours: 10am-6pm, open every day

Location: 800 F Street, NW

Phone contact: (202) 393-7798

Metro: Chinatown/Gallery Place (red line)

Phillips Collection

Website: http://www.phillipscollection.org/

Phone contact: (202) 387-2152

Cost: 18 and under= free for permanent collection during the week (on the weekends it is $10 for adults and $8 for students) , special exhibitions are $12 for adults and $10 for students, 

Location:1600 21st Street, NW, Washington, D.C

Metro: Dupont Circle (red line)

Hours: open Tuesday- Saturday (10-5pm), Thursday (until 8:30 pm), Sunday (11-6pm)

Marian Koshland Science Center

Website: http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/

Location:northeast corner of 6th and E Streets, NW

Metro: Gallery Place Chinatown (Red, Green, Yellow), Judiciary Square (Red)

Phone contact: 202-334-1201

Hours: 10am-5pm daily, closed Tuesdays

Cost: under 18=$3, adults= $5

Group admission: for groups of 20 or more, advance reservations required, visit: http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/visitor/groupvisits.jsp

Newseum

Website: http://www.newseum.org/

Cost: youth= $12.95 + tax, adults= $19.95 + tax

Hours: 9-5pm daily

Location: 555 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest

Washington, DC 20001

Metro: National Archives/Naval Memorial (green/yellow), Judiciary Square (red)

Group Discount: Discounted Independent Group Rates

• Adults and seniors (19 and older): $15.95 plus tax
• Youth (18 and under): $10.95 plus tax
• Call= 202-292-6690 (Monday-Friday)

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Website: http://www.ushmm.org/

Location: 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024-2126

Metro: Smithsonian (Orange/Blue lines)

Hours: 10am-5:20pm

Phone Contact: (202) 488-0400

Cost: Free

National Museum of Crime and Punishment

Website: www.crimemuseum.org

Location: 575 7th Street Northwest

Washington, DC 20004

Across from the Verizon Center

Metro: Gallery Place/ Chinatown (Red, Green, Yellow lines)

Hours: 10am-8pm (Monday-Saturday), 10am-7pm (Sunday)

Phone Contact: (202) 393-1099

Cost: $17.95 (bought online), $19.95 (bought at museum)

Groups: 20 or more, http://www.crimemuseum.org/groups.html, $15.25

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Website: www.nmwa.org

Location: 

1250 New York Avenue Northwest

Washington, DC 20005-3970

Metro: Metro Center (Red, Blue/Orange lines, take 13th Street exit)

Hours: 10-5pm (Monday-Saturday), 12-5pm (Sunday)

Phone Contact: (202) 783-5000

Cost: 18 and under= free, $10 for adults, 1st Sunday of every month is free

Textile Museum

Website: www.textilemuseum.org

Location: 2320 S Street Northwest

Washington, DC 20008-4088

Metro: Dupont Circle (Red line), take Q Street exit

Hours: 10-5pm (Tuesday- Saturday), 1-5pm (Sunday)

Phone Contact: (202) 667-0441

Cost: $5 (suggested)

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Website: http://www.corcoran.org/index.php

Location: 500 Seventeenth Street NW
Washington, DC 20006

Metro: Farragut West (Blue/Orange lines), Farragut North (Red line)

Hours: 10am-5pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday), 10am-9pm (Thursday)

Phone Contact: (202) 639-1700

Cost: $10 (adults), $8 (students)

National Geographic Museum

Website: http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/locations/center/museum/

Location: 1145 17th St NW

Washington, DC 20036

Metro: Farragut North and Farragut West

Hours: 9-5pm (Monday- Saturday), 10-5pm (Sunday)

Phone Contact: (202) 857-7588

Cost: Free

War Memorials (free and open to the public)

Korean War Veterans Memorial

Website: http://www.nps.gov/kowa//index.htm

Location: Independence Avenue Southwest & Lincoln Memorial Cir

Washington, DC 20418

Metro: Foggy Bottom (Red line)

Hours: open 24 hours, rangers available 9:30am-11:30pm

Phone Contact: 202.426.6841

African American Civil War Memorial and Museum

Website: www.afroamcivilwar.org

Location: 1200 U Street Northwest

Washington, DC 20009-4443

Metro: Cardozo/ Shaw (Green/Yellow)

Hours: 10am-5pm (Monday-Friday), 10am-2pm (Saturday)

Phone Contact: (202) 667-2667

World War II Memorial

Website: http://www.wwiimemorial.com/

Location: 17th Street, between Constitution and Independence Avenues

Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/ Orange), Federal Triangle

Hours: open 24/7

Phone Contact: (202) 619-7222- National Park Service

US Navy Memorial

Website:

Location: 701 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest Washington, DC 20004-2688

Metro:

Hours: 9:30am- 5pm daily

Phone Contact: (202) 737-2300

Monuments

Washington Monument

Website: http://www.nps.gov/wamo/index.htm

Location: Constitution Avenue Northwest & 15th St NW, Washington, DC

Metro: Federal Triangle (Orange/Blue)

Hours: 9am-5pm daily

Phone Contact: (202) 426-6841

Lincoln Memorial

Website: http://www.nps.gov/linc/index.htm

Location: Lincoln Memorial Cir SW

Washington, DC 20037

Metro:Foggy Bottom (Orange/Blue), Federal Triangle (Orange/Blue)

Hours: Open 24 hours, ranger on duty from 9:30am-11:30pm

Jefferson Memorial

Website: http://www.nps.gov/thje/index.htm

Location: 15th Street Northwest

Washington, DC 20024

Metro: Federal Triangle (Orange/Blue), Smithsonian (Orange/Blue)

Hours: Open 24/7, rangers on duty 9:30-11:30pm

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial
Website: http://www.mlkmemorial.org/
Location: 1964 Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20024
Metro: Smithsonian (Orange/Blue)

Arlington National Cemetery

Website: www.arlingtoncemetery.org

Location: 214 McNair Road

Arlington, VA 22211

Metro: Arlington National Cemetery

Phone Contact: (703) 607-8000

Hours: 8am-5pm daily

Cost: Free (costs for parking)

Other Attractions

National Archives

Website: www.archives.gov

Location:700 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest

Washington, DC 20408-0002

Metro: Archives/ Naval Memorial (Yellow/Green)

Phone Contact: (202) 357-5400

Hours: 10-5:30 Monday-Saturday (Exhibit Call and Rotunda)

Cost: Free

Aquarium

Website: http://www.nationalaquarium.org/

Location: 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 2023

Metro: Federal Triangle Metro (Orange and Blue Lines)

Hours: 9-5pm, 2pm= daily feeding and Aquarium talks

Phone Contact:202-482-2825

Cost: $9, or $6 with a group rate, download group agreement form online (http://www.nationalaquarium.org/tickets.html)

Madame Tussad’s (Wax Museum)

Website: http://www.madametussauds.com/washington/

Hours: 10-4pm (Monday- Thursday), 10am-6pm (Friday-Sunday)

Phone Contact:(888) 246-8872

Location:1025 F Street Northwest

Washington, DC 20004-1412

Metro: Metro Center (Red, Blue, Orange lines)

Cost: $20 (12-59 year olds)

Discounts for Groups: Phone: 1-888-923-0334 or 212.512.9600 x 607
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Lucky Strikes Lanes (Bowling)

Website: http://www.bowlluckystrike.com/locations/info/?id=34

Cost: ?

Location:701 7th Street NW
Second Floor

Washington, DC, 20001

Metro: Gallery Place/ Chinatown (red line)

Hours: Daily 12pm- 7pm, after 7pm is 21+ only

Phone number: 202.347.1021

Eastern Market (Flea Market)

Location: 225 7th St SE

Washington, DC 20003

Website: www.easternmarket.net

Cost: Free

Hours: 10am-5pm Sundays, music from 12-3:30

Tour the Pentagon

** Advance Reservations Required**

Go to the website to make reservations

Website: http://pentagon.afis.osd.mil/tour-selection.html

Cost: Free

Hours: 9-3pm (Monday- Friday)