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Museums in Washington D.C., DC - Page 9

Find museums in Washington D.C., DC. Listings include United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Museum of the Bible, National Gallery of Art, National Geographic Museum, Naval History & Heritage Command and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Click on each in the list below the map for more information.

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  • 03/28/23
    THIS SATURDAY! APRIL 1st (1-4 pm) THREADING HISTORY: Wool, Flax, and Cotton The Ball-Sellers House Museum will reopen its 2023 season on Saturday, April 1. The five daughters of John and Elizabeth Bal...
    > Arlington Historical Society
  • 03/28/23
    The ghost, at long last, is actually in the machine: For the first time, scientists have created neutrinos in a particle collider. Those abundant yet enigmatic subatomic particles are so removed from...
    > Friends of Arlington's David M. Brown Planeta
  • 03/28/23
    On this day in Arlington history, March 28, 1941, Arlington already appeared to be preparing for war—six months before Pearl Harbor. The newspaper was full of articles about preparing the community fo...
    > Arlington Historical Society
  • 03/28/23
    Virginia Dare Aderholdt was an Arlington Hall cryptanalyst and Japanese translator. She decrypted the intercepted Japanese surrender message at the close of World War II on August 14, 1945. During Wo...
    > Friends of the National World War II Memorial
  • 03/27/23
    We continue to celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth with a story from E3 Gary Ward, who shared how much the support of his future bride, Kitty Ward, impacted him during the #VietnamWar. Listen to this inspir...
    > US Navy Memorial
  • 03/27/23
    The Battle of the Komandorski Islands was one of the most unusual engagements of WWII. It was a naval battle that took place on March 27, 1943, in the North Pacific area of the Pacific Ocean, south of...
    > Friends of the National World War II Memorial
  • 03/27/23
    Clinton M. Hendrick of Cherry Grove, West Virginia, a U.S. Army soldier, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during Operation Varsity on March 27-28, 1945. Operation Va...
    > Friends of the National World War II Memorial
  • 03/27/23
    Analysis of tiny samples from the near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu has yielded uracil, one of the four nucleobases in RNA and a stepping stone on the path to life. It bolsters the case that space may ...
    > Friends of Arlington's David M. Brown Planeta
  • 03/27/23
    On this day in Arlington history, March 27, 1942, the Arlington “Sun” announced that the Henry Clay Elementary School newspaper “The Henry Clay Twitter” won first place in a nation-wide contest. The ...
    > Arlington Historical Society
  • 03/27/23
    Today is #NationalSpinachDay and in honor of that we are sharing one of the most well-known spinach-loving cartoon characters, Popeye the Sailor. Artist E.C. Segar created the sailor man for his 1929 ...
    > National Museum of the United States Navy
  • 03/26/23
    Researchers observing with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet’s atmosphere. The atmosphere is constantly rising, mixing, and moving during it...
    > Friends of Arlington's David M. Brown Planeta
  • 03/26/23
    First Lieutenant Harry Linn Martin of Bucyrus, Ohio, a U.S. Marine Corps officer, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on Iwo Jima on March 26, 1945. On 19 February 1945...
    > Friends of the National World War II Memorial
  • 03/26/23
    First Lieutenant Harry Linn Martin of Bucyrus, Ohio, a U.S. Marine Corps officer, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on Iwo Jima on March 26, 1945. On 19 February 1945...
    > Friends of the National World War II Memorial
  • 03/26/23
    On March 26, 1943, Lieutenant Elsie S. Ott of Smithtown, NY, was the first woman to receive the U.S. Air Medal. Already a trained nurse, she joined the Army Air Corps in 1941 and was sent to Karachi...
    > Friends of the National World War II Memorial