This list of museums in Washington, D.C. encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are university and non-profit art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
Museums
To use the sortable table, click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order. Additionally, the museums listed below are all mapped with pricing for each one.
Defunct museums
- Bead Museum, closed December 2008, museum website
- Black Fashion Museum
- Fondo del Sol
- National Jewish Museum, collections now online, trying to establish to new museum
- National Museum of Crime & Punishment, closed in September 2015 and is now operated as Alcatraz East in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
- National Pinball Museum, website, planned move to Baltimore, Maryland
- Washington Gallery of Modern Art
- USS Barry (DD-933), closed in 2015
See also
- Arboreta in Washington, D.C. (category)
- Aquaria in Washington, D.C. (category)
- Botanical gardens in Washington, D.C. (category)
- Houses in Washington, D.C. (category)
- Museums list
- Nature centers in Washington, D.C.
- Observatories in Washington, D.C. (category)
- Smithsonian museums
References
External links
- Cultural Tourism DC
