What's on in Washington, DC
The Covert Action gallery at the International Spy Museum

International Spy MuseumL'Enfant Plaza, Southwest Waterfront

Gallery: Covert Action

Now showingPermanent collectionTicketed — see website

The age-old techniques leaders use to influence events abroad in secret, from the Trojan Horse and the assassination of Trotsky to Operation Zapata and the Canadian Caper.

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More in Washington, DC

On nowAll of October 2026

Also at International Spy Museum

On now nearby

Saodat Ismailova: Melted into the Sun

National Museum of Asian Art

A gold basin inlaid with delicate and detailed silver designs of humans and animals surrounded by vines.

From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art

National Museum of Asian Art

The Charles Lang Freer House in Detroit, the collector's home where he first displayed the Asian and American art that became the Freer Gallery

A Museum in the Making

National Museum of Asian Art

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

Nearby

The granite south entrance of the Freer Gallery of Art, the Italian Renaissance-style west building of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC

National Museum of Asian Art

DesignFree5 min walk
The cylindrical concrete exterior of the Hirshhorn Museum, raised on four piers, on the National Mall in Washington, DC

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

DesignFree6 min walk
Exterior of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, seen from 14th Street SW

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

ArchitectureFree8 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

HistoryFree8 min walk

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