Arts & Culture in Washington

National Museum of African Art

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

Rubell Museum DC

The Museum at Dumbarton Oaks

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

Heurich House Museum

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

Old Korean Legation Museum

National Bonsai & Penjing Museum

Larz Anderson House

Atlas Performing Arts Center

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

The REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Culture House DC

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

Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building

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

National Archives Research Center

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

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

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

Anacostia Community Museum

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

Mexican Cultural Institute

The Kreeger Museum

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

The Avalon Theatre

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

National Law Enforcement Museum

Art Museum of the Americas

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

Tudor Place

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