DK Travel : Washington, D.C. : History & Culture

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National Museum of Women in the Arts

The collection of works by female artists here is among the world’s best, ranging from Lavinia Fontana’s Portrait of a Noblewoman (c. 1580) to Brazilian artist Frida Baranek’s bristling 1991 Untitled
National Postal Museum

The US Postal Service delivers over 600 million items of mail every day, and this ingenious museum manages to communicate the human scale of the system. The vast airmail system, with its thousands of employees, is shown to be based on individual pilots and airplanes. An interactive display enables visitors to dive into direct marketing and mail order, even designing their own advertising piece.
Neptune Fountain

Roland Hinton Perry created this grouping at the Library of Congress.
New Deal

The Roosevelt era (1933–1945) brought tremendous growth to the city. Efforts to bring the nation out of the Great Depression increased the size and number of government agencies, and provided direct funds for construction. Most of the buildings in the Federal Triangle, the completion of the Supreme Court, and the National Gallery of Art were New Deal works.
Old Post Office Pavilion

A Romanesque revival skyscraper completed in 1899 now contains shops and a food court.
Old Stone House

The oldest surviving structure in DC, this evocative little building holds demonstrations of crafts and skills of pre-Revolutionary life, such as sheep-shearing, and cooking on an open hearth.
Organization of American States

The OAS’s beautiful building, with its three round-topped arches, is one of the area’s architectural delights. The OAS Art Museum of the Americas has a permanent collection of Western Hemisphere art that is one of the most important in the US. The Organization of American States is a cooperative association of all 35 countries of the hemisphere to promote economic development, protect human rights, and strengthen democracy.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar

Dunbar rose from poverty to gain recognition as a poet – the first African-American to do so – publishing his first collection in 1892.
Political Dining

The Monocle has a history of fostering alliances and deals – it is the closest restaurant to the Senate side of the Capitol. The Caucus Room is largely funded by political insiders, and popular for high-profile power-dining.
Pope-Leighey House

The city’s most innovative Frank Lloyd Wright design.

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