Museums

Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, the Washington Monument, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa are in the collection

On a day that resembled a London scene in a James Bond movie, hundreds came out to L’Enfant Plaza for the opening day of the new International Spy Museum.

A scrum of unassuming media folks ambled into the shiny new Apple Carnegie Library on Thursday morning as dozens of Apple employees in green T-shirts applauded. It was a little surreal.

It’s official: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has a flagship store in D.C., and it’s the “most extensive and most ambitious” building conversion the company has ever done, according to Apple officials.

See the Washington Monument like you've never seen it before.

Coming to a museum near you, with activities: ‘A vast, sloping green space built on a scaffolding superstructure’

The International Spy Museum will reopen Sunday in a new building twice the size of its original location, and its founder hopes it will also bring in twice the number of people.

One of the first objects visitors will see when they enter the International Spy Museum’s new L’Enfant Plaza location is a weapon. An Amber drone, a precursor to the widely-used Predator drone of today, hangs from the lobby’s ceiling.

In the lobby of the new Spy Museum at L’Enfant Plaza, a diorama depicts a raggedy looking man in a loin cloth, perched atop a tree, staring out at an aerial drone hanging from the ceiling. And there, in a nutshell, is the essence of the…

Centuries of espionage, including its cloistered history, images and tradecraft, are set to go on display in D.C. on May 12.

After closing its doors in Penn Quarter on New Year's Day, the International Spy Museum has returned with more than 7,000 new artifacts in a new 140,000-square-foot facility.

The new and imposing museum hopes to draw crowds and establish a new cultural hub in the District.

It’s sliding toward default on its bonds and is struggling to draw enough visitors.

The National Law Enforcement Museum opened in October in Judiciary Square, with the support of former U.S. presidents and movie stars, but the museum is already struggling financially.

Since the Smithsonian museums closed their doors just after the new year, the number of federal workers who have visited the Phillips Collection—where one can contemplate life from within the confines of a 6-by-7-foot room made entirely of…

No plans for New Year’s Day? Espionage aficionados might want to stop by the International Spy Museum in Penn Quarter, which will host its final round of visitors in its original location before closing for a move to a new building.

When it was completed in 1855, the Smithsonian Institution’s Castle represented the grand ambitions of a revolutionary education organization. With its library, lecture halls, laboratories and exhibition spaces, the James Renwick-designed…

For the first time in human history, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, a shift that is resulting in new challenges. The Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Community Museum, with its 50th anniversary exhibition, A…