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iDumbarton Oaks Museum & GardensGeorgetown
The Gardens
Now showingPermanent collection$15
Sixteen acres by Beatrix Farrand, designed 1921–47: formal terraces stepping down from the house into orchards, kitchen gardens and a wooded wilderness of meadows and paths.
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- Byzantine CollectionOver twelve hundred objects from the fourth to fifteenth centuries: gold and silver Eucharistic vessels, cloisonne enamels, ivory icons, Antioch mosaics. Byzantine and Courtyard Galleries.
- Pre-Columbian CollectionOver seven hundred works from Mesoamerica, the Andes and the Intermediate Area — Olmec jade, Maya relief panels, Aztec stone, Andean gold — in Philip Johnson's 1963 glass pavilion.
- The Music Room and House CollectionRenaissance-inspired room of Tournai tapestries, El Greco's Visitation, sculpture and furniture, under a painted Rateau ceiling. Stravinsky's "Dumbarton Oaks" Concerto premiered here in 1938.
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- The GardensDC Gardens, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- Re-Inhabiting Conservation: Our Shared SkiesCatie Michel / IA&A at Hillyer
- La Casa en la MontañaDiana Mercado / IA&A at Hillyer
- HarbingersKatherine Steichen Rosing / IA&A at Hillyer
- Dumbarton Oaks Museum & GardensAgnosticPreachersKid / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- The Phillips CollectionKurt Kaiser / Wikimedia Commons, CC0