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• Anacostia Community Museum

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  Anacostia Community Museum

  A dynamic, community-oriented exploration of the cultural expressions and social experience of African Americans awaits visitors of the Anacostia Community Museum.

  Exhibits:

  • Separate and Unequaled: Black Baseball in the District of Columbia - 05/18/2008 - 10/05/2008
  • East of the River: Continuity and Change - 09/15/2007 - 11/09/2008
  Lecture

  6:30 PM What's the Next Move: Housing, East of the River

• Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

  Together, the Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art form the national museum of Asian art for the United States.

  Exhibits:

  • Sculpture: Monkeys Grasping for the Moon - - Ongoing
  • MURAQQA': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (new title) - 05/03/2008 - 08/03/2008
  • Yellow Mountain: China's Ever-Changing Landscape - 05/31/2008 - 08/24/2008
  • Sculpture of South and Southeast Asia - 11/26/1992 - Ongoing
  • Contemporary Japanese Porcelain - - Ongoing
  • The Arts of China - 11/18/1990 - Ongoing
  • Perspectives -- Y.Z. Kami - 03/15/2008 - 10/13/2008
  • Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia - 04/01/2007 - Ongoing

• Arts and Industries Building

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  Arts and Industries Building

  The Arts and Industries Building has a special role among Smithsonian buildings as the original home of the National Museum.

• Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

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  Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

  Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design.

  Exhibits:

  • Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product - 11/09/2007 - 09/01/2008

• Discovery Theater

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  Discovery Theater

  Live Performances for Young Audiences in Washington, DC

  Family

  10:15 & 11:30 AM ***Both Shows Cancelled*** American Rice
  Family

  10:15 & 11:30 AM ***Both Shows Cancelled*** American Rice
  Family

  10:15 & 11:30 AM Kahurangi: Maori Dance Theater of New Zealand
  Family

  10:15 & 11:30 AM ***Both Shows Cancelled*** American Rice

• Freer Gallery of Art

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  Freer Gallery of Art

  The Freer holds one of the finest collections of Asian art and the greatest collection of work by the American artist James McNeill Whistler in the Western world.

  Exhibits:

  • Japanese Arts of the Edo Period, 1615-1868, Part 2 - 03/08/2008 - 09/07/2008
  • Japanese Screens (rotating) - - Ongoing
  • Charles Lang Freer and Egypt - 06/13/1998 - Ongoing
  • Buddhist Art - - Ongoing
  • Black & White Chinese Ceramics from the 10th-14th Centuries - 12/18/2004 - Ongoing
  • Arts of the Islamic World - 05/03/1998 - Ongoing
  • Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas - 10/16/2004 - Ongoing
  • Korean Ceramics - 03/01/1997 - Ongoing
  • The Peacock Room - - Ongoing
  • The Religious Art of Japan (rotating) - 12/21/2002 - Ongoing
  • Small Masterpieces: Whistler Paintings from the 1880s - 04/02/2005 - Ongoing
  • Vietnamese Ceramics from the Red River Delta - 07/09/2005 - Ongoing
  • Ancient Chinese Pottery and Bronze - 03/07/1997 - Ongoing
  • Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection - 02/15/2008 - 09/28/2008
  • Tales of the Brush Continued: Chinese Paintings with Literary Themes - 02/09/2008 - 07/27/2008
  • Surface Beauty: American Art and Freer's Aesthetic Vision - 02/23/2008 - Ongoing
  • Freer & Whistler: Points of Contact - 02/23/2008 - Ongoing
  • Tea for Everyone: Japanese Popular Ceramics for Tea Drinking - 03/08/2008 - 09/07/2008
  Film

  7 PM Dasepo Naughty Girls
  Performance

  Tour, 6:15 PM; Concert, 7 PM: (enter Independence Ave.) Birth of a nASIAN
  Film

  2 PM Short Films: If You Were Me 2

• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

  • FOOD: Outdoor Cafe

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  Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

  The eye-catching architecture of the Hirshhorn sets it apart from the other museums on the National Mall. The Hirshhorn is an arresting, elevated hollow cylinder that is 82 feet high and 231 feet in diameter.

  Exhibits:

  • Black Box: Kimsooja - 04/28/2008 - 08/17/2008
  • Permanent/Indefinite: Collection Highlights - - Ongoing
  • Directions -- Amy Sillman: Third Person Singular - 03/13/2008 - 07/06/2008
  • Currents: Recent Acquisitions - 10/18/2007 - 10/01/2008
  Lecture

  12:30 PM Molly Donovan on Black Box: Kimsooja

• National Air and Space Museum

  • FOOD: Boston
  • FOOD: Donato's Pizza
  • FOOD: Market Mezza Cafe
  • FOOD: McDonald's
  • FOOD: Outdoor Kiosk

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  National Air and Space Museum

  Since the building opened in 1976, the National Air and Space Museum has been the most-visited museum in the world, and a must-see for visitors to Washington, DC.

  Exhibits:

  • Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) - 04/24/2008 - Ongoing
  • World War II Aviation - 07/01/1976 - Ongoing
  • Voyager: Around the World Without a Pit Stop - 09/14/1986 - Ongoing
  • Sea-Air Operations - 07/01/1976 - Ongoing
  • Pioneers of Flight - 07/01/1976 - Ongoing
  • Lunar Exploration Vehicles - 07/01/1976 - Ongoing
  • Looking at Earth - 05/08/1986 - Ongoing
  • Jet Aviation - 07/01/1981 - Ongoing
  • The Golden Age of Flight - 04/05/1984 - Ongoing
  • Exploring the Planets - - Ongoing
  • Early Flight, The Samuel P. Langley Gallery of - 03/26/1980 - Ongoing
  • Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age - 05/12/1989 - Ongoing
  • Apollo to the Moon - 07/01/1976 - Ongoing
  • In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight - 03/21/2008 - 01/02/2009
  • Explore the Universe - 09/21/2001 - Ongoing
  • How Things Fly - 09/20/1996 - Ongoing
  • Legend, Memory, and the Great War in the Air (WWI Aviation) - 11/13/1991 - Ongoing
  • Milestones of Flight - 07/01/1976 - Ongoing
  • Space Race - 05/16/1997 - Ongoing
  • The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age - 10/11/2003 - Ongoing
  • Voyage - A Journey Through Our Solar System (outdoors) - 10/17/2001 - Ongoing
  • America by Air - 11/17/2007 - Ongoing
  Lecture

  8 PM Herb Kelleher: Agent of Airline Change
  Lecture

  6 PM, Pre-lecture Activities; 8 PM: Lecture Living with a Star
  Family

  11 AM & 1:30 PM Why Explore? ***Cancelled***

• National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

  • FOOD: McDonald's McCafe

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  National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

  The National Air and Space Museum's spectacular Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is a massive complex displaying aviation and space artifacts both large and small.

  Exhibits:

  • James S. McDonnell Space Hangar - 11/01/2004 - Ongoing
  • World War II Prints by Robert Taylor - - Ongoing
  • Case: Japanese American Pioneers of the Jet Age - - Ongoing
  • Boeing Aviation Hangar - 12/15/2003 - Ongoing
  • Grand Opening: Took Place December 15, 2003 - 12/15/2003 - Ongoing
  • Balloonamania (2 large cases) - 12/15/2003 - Ongoing
  Family

  11:30 AM-1:30 PM ***New Time*** Flights of Fancy - Stories for Children
  Family

  11:30 AM-1:30 PM ***New Time*** Flights of Fancy - Stories for Children
  Family

  11:30 AM-1:30 PM ***New Time*** Flights of Fancy - Stories for Children
  Family

  11:30 AM-1:30 PM ***New Time*** Flights of Fancy - Stories for Children
  Family

  11:30 AM-1:30 PM ***New Time*** Flights of Fancy - Stories for Children
  Family

  6-9:30 PM Night at the Museum -- A Behind-the-Scenes Experience

• National Museum of African Art

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  National Museum of African Art

  The National Museum of African Art is America's only museum dedicated to the collection, conservation, study and exhibition of African art in all its forms.

  Exhibits:

  • El Anatsui's Nukae-1 (2006) - 03/12/2008 - Ongoing
  • Treasures 2008 (new title) - 04/17/2008 - 08/24/2008
  • El Anatsui: Gawu - 03/12/2008 - 09/02/2008
  • Ceramics at the National Museum of African Art - 01/14/1998 - Ongoing
  • Africa Rifting: Lines of Fire, Namibia/Brazil - 06/14/2006 - Ongoing
  • African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection - 02/15/2007 - 03/22/2009
  Family

  12-2:30 PM Reuse It or Lose It

• National Museum of American History

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  National Museum of American History

  The National Museum of American History collects artifacts of all kinds, from gowns to locomotives, to preserve for the American people an enduring record of their past. The Museum has more than three million artifacts in its collection.

  Exhibits:

• National Museum of Natural History

  • FOOD: Atrium Cafe
  • FOOD: Fossil Cafe
  • FOOD: The Gelato Bar
  • FOOD: The Smithsonian Jazz Cafe

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  National Museum of Natural History

  The wonders of the natural world await you beneath the dome of this classical building, which has recently been undergoing extensive renovation.

  Exhibits:

  • The Lost Amazon: Exploring Plants and Understanding Cultures (new title) - 04/17/2008 - Ongoing
  • Garden: Butterfly Habitat Garden (seasonal) - 06/30/1995 - Ongoing
  • Life in the Ancient Seas - 05/18/1990 - Ongoing