Washington, D.C. Museums — Smithsonian Museums and more!
Washington, D.C. has dozens of world-class museums and galleries to visit, and many of them are free. The permanent collections of the Smithsonian Museums are second to none, and the temporary exhibits there and elsewhere around Washington bring in spectacular art and artifacts.
Smithsonian Museums
- American Art Museum (Smithsonian)
- Anacostia Community Museum (Smithsonian)
- Arthur M. Sackler and Freer Galleries of Art (Smithsonian)
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian)
- National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian)
- National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Smithsonian)
- National Museum of African American History and Culture (Smithsonian)
- National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian)
- National Museum of American History (Smithsonian)
- National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian)
- National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian)
- National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)
- National Postal Museum (Smithsonian)
- Renwick Gallery (Smithsonian)
- S. Dillon Ripley Center and Discovery Theater (Smithsonian)
- Smithsonian Institution Building, the Castle
- Smithsonian Museums Overview
- Smithsonian Museums Map
Other Museums and Galleries
- Holocaust Memorial Museum
- International Spy Museum
- Kreeger Museum
- Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
- Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens
- National Building Museum
- National Children’s Museum
- National Gallery of Art
- National Museum of the United States Navy
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Newseum
- O Street Museum
- Sewall-Belmont House & Museum