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Street-by-Street: The Mall

This 1 mile (1.5 km) boulevard between the Capitol and the
Washington Monument is the city’s cultural heart; the many
different museums of the Smithsonian Institution can be found
along this green strip. At the northeast corner of the Mall is the
National Gallery of Art. Directly opposite is one of the most popular
museums in the world – the National Air and Space Museum, a
soaring construction of steel and glass. Both the National Museum
of American History and the National Museum of Natural History,
on the north side of the Mall, also draw huge numbers of visitors.
7. National Museum
of Natural History
The central Rotunda was
8 Smithsonian Castle designed in the Neo-Classical
The main information style and opened to the
center for all Smithsonian public in 1910.
activities, this building
once housed the basis
of the collections found
in numerous museums
along the Mall. 9 T H S T R E E T N W

9 Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
This extensive collection
of Asian art was
donated to the 1 2 T H S T R E E T N W
nation by New
Yorker Arthur Sackler. MADISON DRIVE NW

J E F E R S O N D R I V E S W

Washington
Monument
q. National Museum
of American History
From George Washington’s
uniform to this electric
streetcar, every aspect of
US history is documented
in this museum.
5 National Museum
of African Art
Founded in 1965 and situated
underground, this museum
0 Freer Gallery of Art houses a comprehensive
Asian art, including this collection of ancient and
13th-century Chinese silk modern African art.
painting, is a highlight, in
addition to a superb
Whistler collection.

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