Travel Services
Whether you're traveling in a large group or interested in leading a student tour, our travel services can help.
Group Travel
Traveling in a large group? Let us help. Smithsonian Group Sales offers discounts on prepackaged meals and IMAX® and Planetarium tickets.
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IMAX® Group Rates
Standard group rate for regular IMAX® films is $6 per person. One complimentary ticket per 20. All tickets for feature-length IMAX® films are $10 per person. Sorry, no complimentary passes or discounts.
IMAX® On Demand
View a special morning screening of your favorite IMAX film at any of our IMAX theaters and/or Planetarium. Select a current film or choose one from our IMAX Adventure Library. IMAX® On Demand screenings are offered every morning at 9:30 am. 50 guest minimum. Please call 866 868-7774 or email groupsales@si.edu for more information.
IMAX® Theater Locations
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center National Air and Space Museum
Chantilly, VA
Lockheed Martin IMAX® Theater & Einstein Planetarium
National Air and Space Museum
The National Mall Washington, DC
Johnson IMAX® Theater
National Museum of Natural History
The National Mall Washington, DC
Dining Packages
National Air and Space Museum, National Mall
Wright Place Food Court
Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, VA
McDonald's Food Court
- McDonald's 1: Choice of Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish, Double Cheeseburger or 6-Piece Chicken McNuggets with Medium Fries, 21 oz. Soft Drink and Cookies. Price $7.50
- McDonald's 2: 7" Cheese or Pepperoni Pizza with 21 oz. Soft Drink and Cookies. Price $8.50*
- McDonald's 3: Choice of Crispy or Grilled McDonald's Salad with 21 oz. Soft Drink and Cookies. Price $9.00
- McDonald's 4: (Smithsonian Kid's Meal) Smithsonian Kid's Meal to include choice of Hamburger, Cheeseburger or 4-Piece Chicken McNuggets, with Small Fries, Soft Drink and Smithsonian Toy. Price $5.25
- McDonald's 5: Choice of Ham & Swiss,Chicken Club, Chicken Caesar, or McCafeWrap with 21 oz. So% Drink and McDonald's Cookies **
<*NOT available at the Udvar-Hazy Center
**ONLY available at the Udvar-Hazy Center
National Museum of Natural History Atrium Café
BULK MEALS: minimum order of 100 (no comps). Choice of Grilled Hamburger, Cheeseburger, Hot Dog, Chicken Caesar or Large Slice of Pizza with Whole Organic Fruit and 20oz. Fountain Beverage. Price $8
National Museum of the American Indian Mitsitam Café
- Menu A: Choice of a Campfire Buffalo Burger or Fried Chicken Tenders with Fries, Whole Fruit and a Fountain Beverage or a Beef, Vegetarian or Chicken Taco with Tomato Rice and Refried Beans, Whole Fruit and a Fountain Beverage. Price $10
- Menu B: Maple Roasted Turkey with Cranberry & Crab Apple Relish, Chicken Tamal with Peanuts &Chiles, Black Bean Tamal in a Corn Husk or two Corn or Soft Tacos with choice of Beef Machaca, Chicken in Green Mole or Pork Pibil with choice of two Sides, Fountain Beverage and Dinner Roll or Corn Bread. Price $12.50
- Menu C: Juniper Salmon Fire Roasted on a Cedar Plank or Roasted Buffalo Sirloin with choice of two Sides, Fountain Beverage and Dinner Roll or Corn Bread. Price $15
- Menu D: Choose any Entree with two Sides, Fountain Beverage and Dinner Roll/Corn Bread. Price $16.50
All packages are available for dinner groups from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. for 100 to 350 guests.
Contact Smithsonian's Group Sales Division for more information.
Dont Miss
One Life: Thomas Paine, The Radical Founding Father
This exhibition features Thomas Paine (1737-1809), whose pamphlet Common Sense fired up Americans to get on with a declaration of independence and whose exhortation, "These are the times that try men's souls," was read by General Washington to his dispirited troops. His story begins in Philadelphia when he arrived in 1774; continues through his tumultuous years in England, where his anti-monarchy diatribe -- Rights of Man -- brought charges of seditious libel; and ends in revolutionary France, where he barely escaped the guillotine. Paine, also the author of The Age of Reason -- a bold attack on organized religion -- returned to America in 1802 to find himself scorned by his old associates and much of the public. He died in poverty, his bones were later stolen and dispersed, but his words have resounded down through the ages. Featured in the exhibition is the museum's recently acquired portrait of Paine depicted by the French artist Laurant Dabos around 1792.
Now - November 29, 2009
National Portrait Gallery
1st Floor, East Side
Staged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009
- This exhibition features works by the following four artists:
- Christyl Boger (b. 1959), who creates large-scale gilded ceramic figurines that incorporate contemporary props
- Mark Newport (b. 1964), who examines issues of masculinity through knitted superhero costumes
- Mary Van Cline (b. 1954), who uses plate glass and pate de verre to construct sculptural pieces that often incorporate black-and-white photographs
- SunKoo Yuh (b. 1960), who creates densely layered ceramic sculptures that explore complex issues of family, faith, and community with Eastern and Western imagery
Now - January 3, 2010
Renwick Gallery
1st Floor, Special Exhibitions Gallery
Rules of the Road
Enjoy the museums responsibly. Reviewing these simple guidelines (and discussing them with children prior to arrival) helps ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for all visitors:
- Be prepared to have your shopping bags, purses & backpacks checked by security officers
- Still & video cameras are permitted in most galleries but are prohibited in special exhibitions, this includes cellphones
- Tripods & flash photography are not permitted indoors
- No outside food/beverages allowed; most museums have cafes & snack bars; and water fountains
- Smoking is prohibited in all Smithsonian facilities
- Don't touch any of the exhibits
- Decide on a time/location as a 'meeting spot' in case you get separated from your party (most museums have an information desk at the entrance, however, some may have more than one)
