The National Archives in Washington, DC
The Rotunda of the National Archives Building in downtown Washington, DC, displays the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence.
National Museum of American History Museum
Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) - Home to the Smithsonian Information Center and the permanent exhibition.
Bon Appétit! Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian
National Air and Space Museum - Twenty-three galleries exhibiting hundreds of aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, rockets, and other flight-related artifacts. Highlights 1903 Wright Flyer, Spirit of St. Louis, SpaceShipOne, Apollo 11 command module, Hubble Space Telescope test vehicle!
Founded in 1846, the Smithsonian is the world's largest museum and research complex, consisting of 19 museums and galleries, the National Zoological Park and nine research facilities.
National Postal Museum- Devoted to the history of America’s mail service and the hobby of stamp collecting. Highlights include full-size: Freightliner semitruckcab cutaway; three vintage mail planes; stagecoach; 1931 Ford Model A postal truck; replica of a railway car; letters; updated exhibition on the Pony Express; special exhibits of rare and important stamps; videos, computer interactives, and hands-on activities
The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden - Typewriter Eraser. This sculpture presents a giant falling eraser that has just alighted, the bristles of the brush turned upward in a graceful, dynamic gesture.
The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden - Spider by Louise Bourgeois. the artist, whose work has explored themes of childhood memory and loss, the spider carries associations of a maternal figure. Indeed, Bourgeois' "Spider" series relates to her own mother who died when the artist was twenty-one. From drawings to large-scale installations, Bourgeois' spiders appear as looming and powerful protectresses, yet are nurturing, delicate, and vulnerable.
The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden - House I by Roy Lichtenstein exploits the illusionistic effects of a third dimension. The side of the house at once projects toward the viewer while appearing to recede into space.
The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden - Personnage Gothique by Joan Miró. Embodies Miró's lifelong concern with richly imaginative imagery that he said was "always born in a state of hallucination."
The National Gallery of Art is a national art museum holding collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile ever created by Alexander Calder.
The United States Botanic Garden
National Museum of the American Indian
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