Free things to do in Washington

25 museums and landmarks in Washington are recorded as free entry by OpenStreetMap contributors, and 23 parks, viewpoints and beaches cost nothing by their nature. 25 of them give opening hours.

Contributors marked these as charging no admission. Museums and landmarks only: a zero here is a fact about the place, not an assumption about its kind.

Free by their nature rather than by a tag, so nobody checked these one by one — but a park being free needs no evidence.

Opening hours come from OpenStreetMap and can be out of date. A place is only marked open on Sunday when its record says so plainly.

Free museums — 24 places

National Gallery of Art
Mo-Su 10:00-17:00
Open on Sunday
National Museum of Natural History
Madison Drive Northwest 1000
Mo-Su 10:00-17:30
Open on Sunday
US National Archives
Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest 700
Mo-Su 10:00-17:30
Open on Sunday
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Raoul Wallenberg Place Southwest 100
Mo-Su 10:00-17:20
Open on Sunday
National Air and Space Museum
Jefferson Drive Southwest 655
Mo-Su 10:00-17:30
Open on Sunday
National Museum of American History
Constitution Avenue Northwest 1300
Mo-Su 10:00-17:30; Dec 25 off
Open on Sunday
National Museum of the American Indian
Independence Avenue Southwest
Mo-Su 10:00-17:30
Open on Sunday
National Museum of African Art
Independence Avenue Southwest 950
Mo-Su 10:00-17:30; PH off
Open on Sunday
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Constitution Avenue Northwest 1400
Mo-Su 10:00-17:30
Open on Sunday
Hirshhorn Museum
Mo-Su 07:30-17:30
Open on Sunday
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Mo-Su,PH 11:30-19:00
Open on Sunday
National Portrait Gallery
We-Su,PH 11:30-19:00
Open on Sunday
National Museum of Asian Art
Independence Avenue Southwest 1050
Mo-Su 10:00-17:30; Dec 25 off
Open on Sunday
Freer Gallery of Art
Independence Avenue Southwest 1050
Mo-Fr 10:00-17:30; Dec 25 off
National Postal Museum
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast 2
10:00-17:30; Dec 25 off
Open on Sunday
DAR Museum
D Street Northwest 1776
Mo-Fr 08:30-16:00; Sa 09:00-17:00; PH off
Arts and Industries Building
Jefferson Drive Southwest 900
off
Interior Museum
C Street Northwest 1849
Mo-Fr 09:00-17:00; PH off
National Museum Of American Jewish Military History
R Street Northwest 1811
Mo-Fr 09:00-17:00; We 09:00-15:00; Sa-Su closed
Art Museum of the Americas
18th Street Northwest 201
Tu-Su 10:00-17:00; PH off; easter off
Open on Sunday
Planet Word
13th Street Northwest 925
Mo,We-Fr 10:00-17:00; Sa,Su 10:00-18:00
Open on Sunday
DC History Center
K Street Northwest 801
Th-Fr 12:00-19:00; Sa-Su 12:00-18:00; PH off
Open on Sunday
Diplomatic Reception Rooms Museum
C Street Northwest 2201
Culture House DC
Delaware Avenue Southwest 700

Free landmarks — 1 place

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
sunrise-sunset open

Parks and gardens — 20 places

Lincoln Memorial
National Mall
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
United States Botanic Garden
1st Street Southwest 245
Mo-Su 10:00-17:00
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
Korean War Veterans Memorial
West Potomac Park
National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
10:00-17:00
Rose Garden
Theodore Roosevelt Island
George Washington Memorial Parkway 700
Lincoln Park
The Ellipse
Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial
President's Park
Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument
Constitution Avenue Northeast 144
Lafayette Square
East Potomac Park
Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac
McPherson Square
Sheridan Circle

Viewpoints — 3 places

Old Post Office Tower
Peters Hill
Overlook

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