What's on in Washington, DC
The Quill & Crumb cafe in the oak-panelled Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare LibraryCapitol Hill

The Great Hall

Now showingPermanent collectionFree

A Tudor-style gallery with a strapwork plaster ceiling and oak panelling; the terracotta floor sets Comedy and Tragedy masks among Shakespeare's play titles. Now also home to the Quill & Crumb cafe.

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More in Washington, DC

On nowAll of October 2026

Also at Folger Shakespeare Library

On now nearby

The Declaration's Promise: A Revolutionary Idea

Library of Congress

The welcome wall of "Alive in Many Hands" at the Library of Congress, made of enlarged photos of people practising folk traditions woven together like a basket

"Alive in Many Hands": The American Folklife Center at 50

Library of Congress

Truman Lowe's Feather Canoe, made from peeled willow saplings, feathers and copper wire

Water's Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe

National Museum of the American Indian

All exhibitions in Washington, DC this month Coming up in November

Nearby

Aerial view of the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, with its copper dome and Beaux-Arts facade, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC

Library of Congress

ArchitectureFree2 min walk
The curved Kasota limestone exterior of the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, DC

National Museum of the American Indian

ArtFree14 min walk
Exterior of the Rubell Museum DC, the former Randall Junior High School at 65 I Street SW, Washington, DC

Rubell Museum DC

Art16 min walk
The newly refaced National Mall building of the National Air and Space Museum, showing the glass portico entrance on Jefferson Drive and the Ad Astra sculpture

National Air and Space Museum

HistoryFree18 min walk

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