Inky fingers and a gifted mind changed the world. Not through a financial success, but a spiritual one. A culture changing force.
The International Spy Museum is an all new experience. Its dramatic new building in a new section of town is just the first sign of change.
The International Spy Museum
With a larger space and new emphasis on science and technologies it is substantially different than the previous iteration that focused almost purely on human intelligence…
When you meet him, Vyrl Keeter introduces himself as a retired educator but after watching his passion as a Cherokee Nation culture keeper, you'd be right to wonder if he's ever really left education behind.
This weekend at the National Museum of the American Indian, you'll find him sitting just off the atrium, the clack…
At 6 pm on a Thursday evening in early April, it's still 68 degree outside and the cherry blossoms are in full bloom. As Washington Capital fans stream past the National Portrait Gallery, twenty-one people are still walking through "Votes for Women" exhibit in Washington, D.C.
"Votes For Women" exhibit National Portrait Gallery
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Trains have always brought people together. They brought our nation together in the historic meeting of the transcontinental railroad. They allowed us to travel long distances quicker than we had before, allowing families that lived far apart to meet more often.
Trains also bring people together each year at the United States Botanic Garden. It…
Like the artist herself, the exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture is small and unassuming. There are only thirteen painting on three walls, even though Clementine painted thousands in her lifetime. The point, however, is not to flood you with information and art, but to allow the simple life in…
"The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers" is a new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery. It's aim is to take a look at the way America has shown workers in art through history.
As you go through the exhibit, you see workers in many mediums including paintings, photographs, sculptures, and even video. Child laborers,…
As you may know, it's hard to find things in DC gift shops that cost less than your first-born child. We're always on the lookout for anything in the gift shops that would be within most people's budgets.
I personally have always loved the Bradford dollhouse. It's bigger than me, and marvelously detailed. What's not…
"It's like art work on the building!" my 7 year old said as we admired the filigree wrapping the outside of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. With a distinctive style and prominent location on the National Mall, D.C.'s newest museum uniquely stands out.
National Museum of African American History and…
Visiting the National Gallery of Art this week with my mom, I discovered firsthand the challenges others go through every day when navigating this world in a wheelchair.
Our last experience like this was sixteen years ago when mom broke her ankle but wanted to see an exhibit at the Corcoran. That visit required rolling…