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  2. List of museums in Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

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    Bead Museum, closed December 2008, [ 8] museum website. Black Fashion Museum, founded 1979, moved to Washington in 1994, closed in 2007 and collection donated to the National Museum of African American History and Culture [ 9][ 10] Corcoran Gallery of Art, open 1869–2014.

  3. National Museum of Natural History - Wikipedia

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    Website. naturalhistory .si .edu. The National Museum of Natural History ( NMNH) is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year.

  4. National Children's Museum - Wikipedia

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    The National Children's Museum is a children's museum and science center in downtown Washington, D.C. It is intended to serve children up to age 12 and their families through interactive exhibits exploring science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Founded in 1974, the museum operated from 1979 to 2004 at 220 H Street, NE.

  5. List of Smithsonian museums - Wikipedia

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    11 of the 20 Smithsonian Institution museums and galleries are at the National Mall in Washington D.C., the open-area national park in Washington, D.C. running between the Lincoln Memorial and the United States Capitol, with the Washington Monument providing a division slightly west of the center. [1]

  6. Marian Koshland Science Museum - Wikipedia

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    koshland-science-museum .org. LabX is the public engagement testbed at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - currently located in Washington, D.C. From 2004 until 2017, it was known as the Marian Koshland Science Museum. [1] The museum featured exhibits that presented modern science and scientific issues in an accessible way, geared for ...

  7. National Air and Space Museum - Wikipedia

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    Website. https://airandspace.si.edu. The National Air and Space Museum ( NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution, is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States, dedicated to human flight and space exploration . Established in 1946 as the National Air Museum, its main building opened on the National Mall near L'Enfant Plaza in 1976.

  8. Albert Einstein Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The Albert Einstein Memorial is a monumental bronze statue by sculptor Robert Berks, depicting Albert Einstein seated with manuscript papers in hand. It is located in central Washington, D.C., United States, in a grove of trees at the southwest corner of the grounds of the National Academy of Sciences at 2101 Constitution Avenue N.W., near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

  9. Dark Ages (historiography) - Wikipedia

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    The Dark Ages is a term for the Early Middle Ages ( c. 5th –10th centuries), or occasionally the entire Middle Ages ( c. 5th –15th centuries), in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which characterises it as marked by economic, intellectual, and cultural decline. The concept of a "Dark Age" as a historiographical ...