MUSEUMS

• Natural History Museum
• American History Museum
• National Air and Space Museum (also check out the Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles Airport)
• National Gallery of Art (“Jazz in the Garden” during the summer)
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
• National Museum of the American Indian (excellent cafeteria–we like the Indian Fry Bread with Mexican hot chocolate in the winter)
• National Postal Museum
• U.S. Navy Museum
• National Geographic Museum 
• National Portrait Gallery
• National Building Museum (fun play area for kids, neat building, traveling exhibits are always interesting)
• College Park Aviation Museum
• Corcoran Gallery of Art (free on Saturdays in the summer)
• The Phillips Collection (museum of modern art)
• National Museum of Crime & Punishment
• Spy Museum
• United States Holocaust Museum
• Newseum
• President Lincoln's Cottage
• Sewall-Belmont House and Museum (Headquarters of the historic National Woman’s Party)
• Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
• Lyceum (Alexandria's history museum)
• Drug Enforcement Administration Museum and Visitors Center
• Lincoln Cottage
• Mount Vernon (check out the Candlelight Tour at Christmas time, and many other annual events)
• National Museum of the Marine Corps 
• Textile Museum 
• Art Museum of the Americas
• Museum of Women in the Arts
• Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (You can tour the house or just visit the grounds and visitor center. Nice views of D.C.) 
• Calvert Marine Museum