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Museums Visited in Weekly Museum Visits Part III
- America's Islamic Heritage Museum
- Arts Club of Washington
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum: Ellicott City Station
- Bladensburg Waterfront Park
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Cathedral of Saint Matthew the Apostle
- Congressional Cemetery
- District Architecture Center
- Ellicott City Fire Station
- Franciscan Monastery
- House of the Temple
- Irvine Nature Center
- Isaac Log Cabin
- Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington
- Kingman and Heritage Islands Park
- Lee-Fendall House
- Maryland Historical Society
- Mount Vernon
- National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum
- National Museum of Language
- O Street Mansion
- Octagon
- Old Stone House
- Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park
- Peirce Mill
- President Lincoln's Cottage
- Riversdale
- United States Institute of Peace
- Voice of America
- Washington Masonic Memorial
DC, Maryland, and Virginia Museums on WordPress
- Art History at American University
- Broad Strokes (National Museum of Women in the Arts)
- Designing Tomorrow (National Building Museum)
- Experiment Station (Phillips Collection)
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Fondo del Sol
- Heurich House Museum
- Laogai Museum
- Maryland Historical Society
- Montgomery County Historical Society
- National Aquarium
- Pope-Leighey House
- President Lincoln's Cottage
- Textile Museum Press Room
- United States Capitol Historical Society
- Virginia Commonwealth University Virtual Curation Unit
- Virginia Museum of Natural History
- What's Blooming at Dumbarton Oaks
- Woodlawn
Monthly Archives: February 2012
The Lure of Crime Exhibits
When I was seven, two friends and I started a club called the Yellow Detectives. We made up fake code names, a flag, and a pledge. Our activities mostly consisted of using our over-active imaginations to concoct “mysteries” out of … Continue reading
Washington Post’s Free and Easy 2/27-3/4
Happy Leap Week! This week’s recommended free events include a movie screening at the National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday 2/29, stargazing at the National Air and Space Museum on Saturday 3/3, and a piano concert at the National Gallery of … Continue reading
Tiny Libraries, Tiny Parks… Tiny Museums?
Temporary green spaces, the size of a parking space. Whimsical mailbox-sized structures holding a few dozen books. When I read about “parkmobiles”, and later, about little libraries, I had a similar reaction to each. I thought, I hope these little … Continue reading
Posted in Articles and Books
Tagged CA, libraries, little library, museum, OR, parkmobile, parks, WI
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Washington Post’s Free and Easy 2/20-26
Happy Presidents’ Day and Mardi Gras! Free events this week include a Persian harp performance at the Freer Gallery on Wednesday 2/22, a movie screening at the National Archives on Friday 2/24, an information session on Civil War reenactment at … Continue reading
Black History Month
The Smithsonian Institution’s newest museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, is slated to open in 2015. This museum will have the responsibility not of being the first or only site to address black history, for there … Continue reading
Posted in Articles and Books, Lists of Museums, Museums and Holidays, National Postal Museum, Newseum, Photos
Tagged Black History Month, DC, Frederick Douglass House, historic house museum, historic site, holidays, International Civil Rights Center and Museum, Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, museum, National Museum of African American History and Culture, national museum of american history, NC, Newseum
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Washington Post’s Free and Easy 2/13-19
This week’s recommended free events include a talk at Carlyle House on Wednesday 2/15 and the Iranian Film Festival at the Freer Gallery on Sunday 2/19. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Challenges in Interpreting Challenger
I was three years old on January 28, 1986, when the Challenger disaster occurred; I have no personal where-were-you-when memories of the event. Years later, someone told me that everyone who worked at NASA knew that the seven astronauts would … Continue reading
Washington Posts’s Free and Easy 2/6-12
The Going Out Gurus recommend three free museum events this week: a film about Picasso at the National Gallery of Art on Wednesday 2/8, a Charlie Chaplin film in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Kogod Courtyard on Thursday 2/9, and … Continue reading
Weekly Museum Visits Part II Collage
Here’s everywhere I went!
