Activities in DC

Special Events

Easter in Washington, D.C.

Easter falls on Sunday March 31, 2013. See a guide to celebrating the holiday in the nation's capital including the schedules and suggested venues for Easter brunch, Easter egg hunts, religious services and other events. Click here.

Cherry Blossom Kite Festival
As part of the festivities at the National Cherry Blossom Festival, kite enthusiasts complete and show off their kit flying skills on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Click here to find out more about the Cherry Blossom Festival.

Wizards vs. Toronto Raptors
March 31, 2013 Gametime: 7:00 pm
Verizon Center

For more event details and tickets, click here.

Museums

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