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The National Mall is a landscaped park near the downtown area of Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States.It contains and borders a number of museums of the Smithsonian Institution, art galleries, cultural institutions, and various memorials, sculptures, and statues.
National Mall and Memorial Parks (formerly known as National Capital Parks-Central) is an administrative unit of the National Park Service (NPS) encompassing many national memorials and other areas in Washington, D.C. Federally owned and administered parks in the capital area date back to 1790, some of the oldest in the United States.
Using an ozone disinfectant system installed during the renovation, [9] the National Park Service said it would double the amount of algae-killing ozone in the pool to control future outbreaks. [8] In 2013, construction on the National World War II Memorial damaged the eastern end of the Reflecting Pool. NPS workers closed the eastern 30 feet ...
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. With 4.4 million visitors in 2023, it was the third most-visited museum in the United States. [6]
The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial that honors the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.An example of neoclassicism, it is in the form of a classical temple and is located at the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Henry Bacon is the memorial's architect and Daniel Chester French designed the large interior statue of a seated Abraham Lincoln (1920 ...
The memorial sits on the grounds of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. After a two-year pandemic delay,… New memorial on National Mall pays tribute to ...
While the event is billed as a "march," it is expected to stay within the National Mall rather than spill out into the streets. Organizers have said upward of 60,000 people could attend.
The location, between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, is the most prominent spot for a monument on the National Mall since the Lincoln Memorial opened in 1922. It is the first addition in more than 70 years to the grand corridor of open space that stretches from the Capitol 2.1 miles (3.4 km) west to the Potomac River.