Arts & Culture in Washington DC

Culture House DC

Community arts, exhibition & private events venue in a brightly-painted former church building.

The REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

Cozy home-base facility for a stalwart theater company known for original productions.

Tudor Place

This historic 1816 home features a huge collection of items from the 1700s-2000s plus hourly tours.

The Avalon Theatre

Independent & foreign movies plus documentaries & film festivals in a historic theater with a cafe.

Rubell Museum DC

The Kreeger Museum

Art from the 1850s-1970s, with Impressionists & American art.

National Museum of African Art

Vibrant museum gift shop featuring unique African artwork, home decorations, clothing & jewelry.

National Bonsai & Penjing Museum

Art Museum of the Americas

Museum displaying roughly 2,000 works by contemporary artists from the Caribbean & Latin America.

Larz Anderson House

Heurich House Museum

Grand 19th-century mansion known for its beer-brewing history, with period furniture & guided tours.

Atlas Performing Arts Center

Performing arts venue staging music, dance & other shows in a renovated art deco theater.

Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building

Victorian gardens surround this 1800s building with a rotunda & skylights, used as an events space.

The Museum at Dumbarton Oaks

Famed research library & museum for Byzantine & pre-Columbian studies with formal gardens.

Old Korean Legation Museum

Anacostia Community Museum

Small museum with various creative exhibits spotlighting topics facing today's urban communities.

National Law Enforcement Museum

Mexican Cultural Institute

National Archives Research Center

Celebrated archive housing the original Constitution plus other significant documents & records.