Nobody's mentioned the boat tour to Mt. Vernon. I don't know if it's running
in October, but it's the most fun way to get there.

Interesting to me as a museum quasi-professional are - the newly opened Spy
"museum" (just don't ask them what a registrar, curator or conservator is,
this isn't that kind of a museum); Air & Space's flight interactive games;
American History's horrid Material Matters dispay (a great example of what
not to do) and their better done "Within these Walls" display of a house
within a museum; National Postal Museum (taking a one-note topic & turning
it into a symphony); and the Building Museum (one of the best spaces ever
turned into a museum, and with exhibits that are always top notch).

The Phillips Gallery at Dupont Circle, Corcoran (now hosting that silly
Jackie O' dresses exhibit), both wings of the National Gallery of Art and
the Hirshhorn are almost always hosts to excellent shows.

There does also seem to be lots of things that are closed. No White House
tours (unless your in a pre-arranged student group), no Declaration of
Independence or Bill of Rights, no American Art or Portrait Gallery, no FBI
tours.

Xandra Thomas




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