National Theatre
A historic landmark on Pennsylvania Avenue, the National Theatre is one of America's oldest continually operating theat…
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Penn Quarter
Washington, D.C. · Jul 25–26
117 arts and culture stops in Washington, D.C. this weekend: Jul 25–26
A weekend shortlist for Washington, D.C., Jul 25–26: verified events, food, neighborhoods, and easy plan pairings.
Updated Saturday, July 25 · event dates verified when shown
Capital Jewish Museum
The Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum is a state-of-the-art facility exploring the diverse history, culture,…
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Penn Quarter
Kreeger Museum
A Modernist architectural gem designed by Philip Johnson, this nonprofit museum showcases a prestigious collection of 1…
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Georgetown
International Spy Museum
The only public museum in the United States dedicated solely to espionage, featuring the world's largest collection of…
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National Mall
National Building Museum
Housed in the historic 19th-century Pension Building, this museum celebrates architecture, engineering, and urban plann…
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Penn Quarter
Renwick Gallery
The Renwick Gallery is the nation's premier museum dedicated to American craft, housed in a stunning National Historic…
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Penn Quarter
Keegan Theatre
An award-winning professional theater company in Dupont Circle, the Keegan Theatre offers intimate performances of clas…
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Dupont Circle
Old Korean Legation Museum
A historic Victorian house museum in Logan Circle, detailing the early diplomatic relations between the Joseon kingdom…
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Logan Circle
Old Stone House
The oldest structure on its original foundation in Washington, D.C., this 1765 pre-Revolutionary home in Georgetown pro…
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Georgetown
Folger Shakespeare Library
An independent research library on Capitol Hill, housing the world's largest collection of William Shakespeare's printe…
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Capitol Hill
Petersen House
The solemn site where President Abraham Lincoln passed away on April 15, 1865, after his assassination at Ford's Theatr…
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Penn Quarter
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
A Victorian townhouse serving as a memorial to Mary McLeod Bethune and the first headquarters of the National Council o…
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Logan Circle
U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Reception Rooms
An opulent living museum within the Harry S. Truman Building, showcasing over 5,000 pieces of early American decorative…
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Foggy Bottom
Display ship Barry
A former Forrest Sherman-class destroyer that served as the Navy's premier display ship at the historic Washington Navy…
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Navy Yard
The Phillips Collection
Locals flock here for the first U.S. modern art museum housing van Gogh, Renoir, and a relaunched avant-garden in a quiet Dupont townhouse.
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Dupont Circle
The Watergate Complex
Contemporary design meets saltwater lap pool, whirlpool, and sauna/steam rooms for a modern wellness retreat.
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Georgetown
Foggy Bottom Historic District
A preserved pocket of 19th-century working-class history in Washington, D.C., featuring narrow brick rowhouses and quie…
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Foggy Bottom
Warder Mansion
A Romanesque Revival masterpiece by H. H. Richardson, this 1886 mansion is the only surviving building by the famed arc…
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Adams Morgan
Mary Ann Shadd Cary House
The former home of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a pioneering Black newspaperwoman and lawyer, stands as a brick rowhouse in the…
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U Street Corridor
Volta Laboratory and Bureau
A National Historic Landmark in Georgetown, this neoclassical building served as Alexander Graham Bell's research cente…
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Georgetown
Spanish Steps
A whimsical, multi-tiered stone staircase in Kalorama, inspired by Rome's famous steps, providing a romantic urban oasi…
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Dupont Circle
Josephine Butler Parks Center
A stunning 40-room Renaissance Revival mansion overlooking Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park, once home to the Hungarian and…
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Adams Morgan
The Line Hotel (former First Church of Christ, Scientist)
A stunning Neoclassical Revival church from 1912 converted into a design-centric boutique hotel and community hub in th…
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Adams Morgan
Barracks Row
The oldest commercial district in Washington, D.C., this historic corridor on 8th Street SE blends military history wit…
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Capitol Hill
Chinese Embassy (former Walsh Mansion)
A historic Gilded Age mansion at 1600 21st Street Northwest, designed by Henry Andersen in 1903 for gold miner Thomas F…
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Woodley Park
Constitution Hall
Washington, D.C.'s largest concert hall, built in 1929 by the Daughters of the American Revolution to host their annual…
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National Mall
Embassy Row
A prestigious diplomatic district in Northwest Washington, D.C., featuring a high concentration of embassies, diplomati…
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Georgetown
Freedom Statue
The crowning feature of the U.S. Capitol dome, this 19-foot-6-inch bronze figure represents freedom, perched 288 feet a…
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National Mall
Georgetown University
The oldest Catholic institution of higher education in the United States, Georgetown University's stunning Hilltop camp…
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Georgetown
National Statuary Hall
A grand semicircular chamber in the U.S. Capitol, showcasing a collection of 100 statues donated by each of the 50 stat…
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National Mall
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
A poignant national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring the 58,318 Americans who died in the Vietnam War, featuring…
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National Mall
Lincoln Theatre
A historic landmark on Washington's Black Broadway, this 1922 theater served as a cultural sanctuary for the African Am…
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U Street Corridor
True Reformer Building
A historic five-story landmark at 1200 U Street NW, designed and financed by the Black community as a symbol of indepen…
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U Street Corridor
Healy Hall
The iconic flagship building of Georgetown University, Healy Hall is a massive Neo-Romanesque and High Victorian Gothic…
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Georgetown
Jefferson Memorial
A neoclassical marble tribute to the third U.S. President, situated on the Tidal Basin and framed by iconic Japanese fl…
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Tidal Basin
Fourteenth Street Historic District
A vibrant commercial corridor blending historic architecture with modern urban energy, this National Register district…
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Logan Circle
Francis Scott Key Memorial
A serene Georgetown park featuring a bronze bust and a 15-star replica flag, honoring the author of the U.S. national a…
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Georgetown
Mexican Cultural Institute
Housed in a spectacular 1910 mansion, this nonprofit center promotes Mexico-U.S. relations through free art exhibits, s…
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Adams Morgan
Mount Zion / Female Union Band Society Cemeteries
A profound historic memorial park containing two of the oldest African American cemeteries in Washington, D.C., includi…
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Georgetown
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
The world's first museum dedicated solely to championing women through the arts, featuring a vast collection of over 6,…
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Penn Quarter
Titanic Memorial
A poignant granite monument in Southwest Waterfront Park honoring the men who sacrificed their lives for women and chil…
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National Mall
Blagden Alley
A hidden gem in the Shaw neighborhood, Blagden Alley blends 19th-century history with the DC Alley Museum's vibrant mur…
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Logan Circle
Industrial Bank
The oldest and largest African American and family-owned community bank in the metropolitan Washington region, Industri…
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U Street Corridor
National Union Building
A restored 1890 Romanesque Revival landmark in Chinatown/Penn Quarter, this former insurance headquarters now serves as…
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Penn Quarter
Prince Hall Masonic Temple
A stunning Indiana limestone landmark on U Street, this 1929 temple serves as a monument to African American advocacy a…
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U Street Corridor
Riggs National Bank (historic building)
A stunning example of Richardsonian Romanesque Revival architecture, this 1891 landmark once served as the 'Bank of Pre…
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Penn Quarter
Walsh-McLean House (Embassy of Indonesia)
A lavish Gilded Age mansion designed by Henry Anderson, this eclectic architectural gem served as the home of the Hope…
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Dupont Circle
Apollo Theater site / Ourisman Chevrolet Service Center
A historic site in Washington, D.C., marking the former location of an Apollo Theater, now occupied by the Ourisman Che…
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H Street NE
John Ericsson Memorial
A bronze and granite tribute to Swedish-born inventor John Ericsson, honoring his revolutionary creation of the screw p…
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National Mall
Old City Hall
A National Historic Landmark at Judiciary Square, this imposing stone structure evolved from a 1849 brick city hall int…
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Penn Quarter
Holt House
Tucked away within the National Zoo, Holt House is a derelict Neoclassical mansion and the oldest building owned by the…
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Dupont Circle
Knickerbocker Theatre Site
The site of the 1922 Knickerbocker Theatre collapse, where a massive blizzard caused the city's deadliest building disa…
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Adams Morgan
Latrobe Gate
A Greek Revival masterpiece and the oldest continuously manned Marine sentry post in the nation, this historic gate sur…
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Navy Yard
Tingey House
The official residence of the Chief of Naval Operations, this 1804 landmark is one of the few structures to survive the…
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Navy Yard
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Whitelaw Hotel
A landmark of Black entrepreneurship, the Whitelaw was Washington's first luxury hotel and apartment building financed,…
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U Street Corridor
Patterson Mansion
A stunning Neoclassical landmark at 15 Dupont Circle NW, this former socialite's estate now serves as a premier event v…
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Dupont Circle
15 Logan Circle
The Old Korean Legation Museum is a Victorian landmark at 15 Logan Circle, serving as a diplomatic bridge between the J…
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Logan Circle
Dumbarton House
A Federal-period historic house museum in Georgetown, built in 1799, featuring 18th- and 19th-century artifacts and an…
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Georgetown
Tudor Place Historic House & Garden
A National Historic Landmark in Georgetown featuring Federal-period architecture, expansive gardens, and the largest co…
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Georgetown
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
Marjorie Merriweather Post’s mansion pairs glittering treasures with some of DC’s loveliest gardens.
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Woodley Park
The Museum at Dumbarton Oaks
A hushed Georgetown garden escape with terraces, fountains, and one of DC’s calmest strolls.
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Georgetown
National Gallery of Art
See the only Da Vinci painting in the Americas and masterpieces from the Renaissance to modern art.
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National Mall
Georgetown University Art Galleries
Explore contemporary art at Georgetown University Art Galleries, featuring rotating exhibitions by acclaimed artists an…
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Georgetown
National Museum of African Art
The Smithsonian's premier showcase of African art, featuring the largest collection of its kind in the United States, l…
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National Mall
Addison/Ripley Fine Art
A premier contemporary art gallery in Georgetown, established in 1981, showcasing a dynamic mix of local, national, and…
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Georgetown
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Explore the final home of Frederick Douglass, a former slave who rose to become a world-renowned abolitionist, statesma…
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Navy Yard
National Geographic Museum at Explorers Hall
A state-of-the-art exploration hub opening June 26, 2026, featuring immersive technology, iconic photography, and over…
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Logan Circle
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The official United States memorial and museum dedicated to the history and legacy of the Holocaust, featuring permanen…
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National Mall
Freer Gallery of Art / National Museum of Asian Art
The Smithsonian’s first fine arts museum, the Freer Gallery of Art showcases a premier collection of Asian masterpieces…
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National Mall
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
A Smithsonian architectural wonder featuring international modern and contemporary art within a striking cylindrical bu…
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National Mall
Museum of the Bible
A massive, high-tech exploration of the Bible's history and impact, featuring over 1,000 artifacts and immersive VR exp…
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National Mall
National Museum of the American Indian
A stunning Smithsonian institution dedicated to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, featuring curvilinear architect…
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National Mall
Smithsonian Institution Building
Known as The Castle, this striking red sandstone landmark is the oldest building of the Smithsonian Institution, servin…
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National Mall
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Explore the world's largest collection of aviation and space artifacts, featuring legendary aircraft and spacecraft in…
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National Mall
The Phillips Collection
America's first museum of modern art, this private institution is housed in the former home of Duncan Phillips within t…
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Foggy Bottom
U.S. Navy Museum
The only museum providing a complete overview of U.S. naval history, this official Navy site preserves artifacts and ar…
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Navy Yard
Francis Scott Key Bridge
An elegant reinforced concrete arch bridge carrying U.S. Route 29, connecting the historic Georgetown neighborhood of W…
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Georgetown
George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum
A unique intersection of global artistry and local history, this free museum showcases 5,000 years of international tex…
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Foggy Bottom
Heurich House Museum
Known as the Brewmaster's Castle, this Gilded Age mansion is the best-preserved example of Richardsonian Romanesque res…
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Dupont Circle
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