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Museums · The Wharf

International Spy Museum

4.6$$Closed · opens 10:00

Ticketed, privately run, and way better than it has any right to be. Gets weirdly educational about tradecraft, kids love it, adults leave with conspiracy theories.

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More Museums

Aircraft hanging inside a vast museum hallFree
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National Air and Space Museum

Humanity's greatest hits in flight, under one Smithsonian roof — and it is free.

Gallery interior with paintingsFree
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National Gallery of Art

The only Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas, and it's free.

Free
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Smithsonian's modern art museum. Infinity Mirrors, anyone?

More in The Wharf

Free
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District Pier at The Wharf

Free live concerts on the Potomac all summer.

Rooftop dining at sunset$$$
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La Vie

Mediterranean on the Wharf with sunset views you'll photograph every time.

$$
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Monuments Sightseeing Tour

A narrated Potomac hour with the monuments framed from the water.