What's on in Washington, DC
Life-sized North Atlantic right whale model suspended in the Sant Ocean Hall

National Museum of Natural HistoryNational Mall

Sant Ocean Hall

Now showingPermanent collectionFree

The ocean from sunlit shallows to the dark sea floor: 600-plus specimens, a life-sized model of the right whale Phoenix, walking whale ancestors and the fossil jaws of C. megalodon.

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The engrossed original Declaration of Independence parchment

Free and Independent: A Celebration of the Declaration

National Archives Museum

In Pursuit of Life, Liberty, and Happiness exhibition at the National Museum of American History

In Pursuit of Life, Liberty, and Happiness

National Museum of American History

How Can You Forget Me: Filipino American Stories exhibition banner

How Can You Forget Me: Filipino American Stories

National Museum of American History

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

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The neoclassical National Archives Building with its Corinthian colonnade, seen from Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC

National Archives Museum

ArchitectureFree4 min walk
Aerial view of the National Museum of American History on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

National Museum of American History

HistoryFree4 min walk
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

DesignFree5 min walk

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