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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street NW
202.467.4600
www.kennedy-center.org
National Air and Space Museum
6th Street and Independence Avenue SW
202.633.1000
www.nasm.si.edu/museum/flagship.cfm
The Kennedy Center, located on 17 acres overlooking the
Potomac River, is America’s living memorial to President
Kennedy as well as the nation’s busiest arts facility. Touring
Kennedy Center productions and its television, radio, and
Internet broadcasts reach millions around the world. As
part of the Kennedy Center’s Performing Arts for Everyone
program, more than 400 free performances are offered each
year featuring international, national, and local artists. These
include daily 6:00 PM concerts on the Millennium Stage.
During March, the Kennedy Center will be featuring Madama
Butterfly, Shear Madness, and the National Symphony
Orchestra.
Library of Congress
1st Street SE between Independence Avenue and
East Capitol Street
202.707.8000
www.loc.gov
The Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural
institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is
also the largest library in the world, with millions of books,
recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its
collections.
Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens
3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway,
Mount Vernon, Virginia
703.780.2000
www.mountvernon.org
The estate, gardens, and farm of George Washington’s Mount
Vernon totaled some 8,000 acres in the 18th century. Today,
roughly 500 acres of this historic estate have been preserved
16 miles south of Washington, D.C., on the banks of the
Potomac River. Visitors can see 20 structures and 50 acres of
gardens as they existed in 1799.
The estate also includes a museum, the tombs of George and
Martha Washington, Washington’s greenhouse, an outdoor
exhibit devoted to American agriculture as practiced by
Washington, the nation’s most important memorial to the
accomplishments of 18th century slaves, and a collection
which features numerous decorative and domestic artifacts.
The National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in
Washington, D.C., has hundreds of original historic artifacts
on display, including the Wright 1903 Flyer, the Spirit of St.
Louis, the Apollo 11 command module Columbia, and a Lunar
rock sample that visitors can touch.
The Museum offers 22 exhibition galleries, the Lockheed
Martin IMAX Theater, flight simulators, a three-level Museum
shop, and a food-court-style restaurant.
National Gallery of Art
Constitution Avenue NW between 3rd and 9th Streets
202.737.4215
www.nga.gov
The National Gallery of Art, one of the world’s preeminent
museums, was created for the people of the United States of
America by a joint resolution of Congress accepting the gift of
financier, public servant, and art collector Andrew W. Mellon
in 1937, the year of his death. The Gallery’s collection of some
116,000 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture,
and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from
the Middle Ages to the present.
National Mall and Memorial Parks
202.426.6841
www.nps.gov/nama
The National Mall stretches west from the foot of Capitol Hill
at the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial to encompass the original
Mall area, the Washington Monument Grounds, the Tidal
Basin area, and West Potomac Park before terminating at the
Watergate Steps behind the Lincoln Memorial.
National Mall and Memorial Parks includes the
following icons:
• National Mall
• Washington Monument
• Thomas Jefferson Memorial
• Lincoln Memorial
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
• World War II Memorial
• Korean War Veterans Memorial
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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