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Home / Regional / North America / United States / Washington, DC / Arts and Entertainment / Museums
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- Corcoran Gallery of Art - Outlines the North American and European modern art collections at the largest non-federal museum in the city.
www.corcoran.org
- Hillwood Museum and Gardens - One of America's premier estate museums, featuring the largest assemblage of imperial Russian fine and decorative arts outside Russia, and an extensive collection of eighteenth-century French works of art.
www.hillwoodmuseum.org
- International Spy Museum - Exploring the history of espionage, the permanent exhibition tells the story of spies, intelligence operations and deceptions.
www.spymuseum.org
- National Building Museum - Dedicated to exploring and celebrating architecture and related disciplines.
www.nbm.org
- National Museum of Art - Site allows visitors to search the collection, or tour by medium and school. In-depth sections and foreign-language guides are also available.
www.nga.gov/collection
- The National Museum of Women in the Arts - Dedicated exclusively to the exhibition, preservation, and acquisition of works by women artists of all nationalities and periods.
www.nmwa.org
- The Phillips Collection - A museum of modern art. Provides museum history, collection overview with photos and descriptions, programs, events, and special exhibitions.
www.phillipscollection.org
- Tudor Place - Tudor Place stands alone in the nation's capital as a house of architectural distinction lived in by six generations of the same family from 1805 to 1984. Set in over five acres of garden.
tudorplace.org
- U.S. Capitol Visitor Center - Information on the creation of a new facility for visitors at the U.S. Capitol. Includes design plans, artist renderings, and construction summaries.
www.aoc.gov/cvc/cvc_overview.htm
- Woodrow Wilson House - Presidential museum and National Trust Historic site. Woodrow Wilson history, calendar of events and exhibitions, educational programs, tour preview, staff directory, directions and rental information.
www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org
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