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Things To Do in Washington DC WASHINGTON DC AREA ATTRACTIONS ☐ Smithsonian Institution Offices ☐ Smithsonian National Postal Museum ☐ National Gallery of Art ☐ Newseum ☐ Smithsonian National Zoological Park ☐ The U.S. Capital Visitor’s Center ☐ Dupont Circle ☐ National Archives Research Center ☐ National Portrait Gallery ☐ Library of Congress ☐ International Spy Museum ☐ National Bonsai & Penjing ☐ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Museum ☐ The Phillips Collection ☐ United States National Arboretum ☐ Dumbarton Oaks Museum ☐ Ford’s Theater & The Peterson House ☐ Museum of the Bible ☐ Smithsonian American Art ☐ Renwick Gallery Museum ☐ Tudor Place Historic House & ☐ National Archives Museum Garden ☐ Hirshhom Museum ☐ Capital One Arena ☐ National Building Museum ☐ The Mansion on O & O Street Museum ☐ Arthur M. Sackler Gallery ☐ Federal Triangle ☐ George Washington’s Mount Vernon ☐ African American Civil War Memorial ☐ Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens ☐ American Veterans Disables for Life Memorial ☐ Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument ☐ District of Columbia War Memorial ☐ Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site ☐ World War I Memorial (Pershing Park) ☐ George Mason Memorial ☐ John Ericsson Memorial ☐ National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial ☐ James Madison Memorial Building ☐ US Navy Memorial ☐ National Museum of Crime & Punishment ☐ Madame Tussauds THINGS TO SEE AT THE NATIONAL MALL ☐ Franklin Delano Roosevelt ☐ National Museum of the American Memorial Indian ☐ Lincoln Memorial ☐ Ulysses S Grant Memorial ☐ Thomas Jefferson Memorial ☐ African Art Museum ☐ World War II Memorial ☐ U.S. Capital ☐ Three Servicemen ☐ The White House ☐ German American Friendship Garden ☐ National Museum of African American History & Culture ☐ National Gallery of Art ☐ US Botanic Garden ☐ Robert A Taft Memorial ☐ Smithsonian Castle ☐ Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain ☐ Korean War Veterans Memorial ☐ Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial ☐ Washington Monument ☐ Vietnam Women’s Memorial ☐ Constitution Gardens ☐ National Museum of American History ☐ National Air & Space Museum .

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2019 NCBJ Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. - Early Ideas Regarding Extracurricular Activities for Attendees and Guests to Consider
2019 NCBJ Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. - Early Ideas Regarding Extracurricular Activities for Attendees and Guests to Consider There are so many things to do when visiting D.C., many for free, and here are a few you may have not done before. They may make it worthwhile to come to D.C. early or to stay to the end of the weekend. Getting to the Sites: • D.C. Sites and the Pentagon: Metro is a way around town. The hotel is four minutes from the Metro’s Mt. Vernon Square/7th St.-Convention Center Station. Using Metro or walking, or a combination of the two (or a taxi cab) most D.C. sites and the Pentagon are within 30 minutes or less from the hotel.1 Googlemaps can help you find the relevant Metro line to use. Circulator buses, running every 10 minutes, are an inexpensive way to travel to and around popular destinations. Routes include: the Georgetown-Union Station route (with a stop at 9th and New York Avenue, NW, a block from the hotel); and the National Mall route starting at nearby Union Station. • The Mall in particular. Many sites are on or near the Mall, a five-minute cab ride or 17-minute walk from the hotel going straight down 9th Street. See map of Mall. However, the Mall is huge: the Mall museums discussed start at 3d Street and end at 14th Street, and from 3d Street to 14th Street is an 18-minute walk; and the monuments on the Mall are located beyond 14th Street, ending at the Lincoln Memorial at 23d Street.
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