What's on in Washington, DC
Gallery view inside the Permanent Exhibition, The Holocaust, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumNational Mall, Southwest DC

The Holocaust (Permanent Exhibition)

Now showingPermanent collectionFree

Three floors tracing the Holocaust from the Nazi rise to power in 1933 to liberation, via artifacts, film and survivor testimony. Free timed-entry ticket required; closes January 2027 for rebuilding.

Exhibition website

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On nowAll of October 2026

Also at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

On now nearby

Johnson Publishing Company photograph of Marvin Gaye featured in Spirit in the Dark

Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism and Popular Culture

National Museum of African American History and Culture

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

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

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Exterior of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, its three-tiered bronze-coloured filigree corona seen from the National Mall

National Museum of African American History and Culture

ArtFree6 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

DesignFree6 min walk
Aerial view of the National Museum of American History on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

National Museum of American History

HistoryFree6 min walk
Exterior of the International Spy Museum's black-and-red glass building at L'Enfant Plaza, Washington, DC

International Spy Museum

Military8 min walk

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