National Museum of Natural History Washington DC

10th Street and Constitution Ave., Washington DC , District of Columbia, United States - Phone: 202-357-2700

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  • Very interesting

    5

    emilyr.home 26 contributions United Kingdom Sep 15, 2011

    Free visit and very interesting exhibits.

    This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.

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    Washington DC

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    Washington DC had a horrendous one-way system - I'm just glad Dominic is doing the driving! We did a whistlestop tour of the free Smithsonian museums. I really enjoyed the movie exhibits in the American History museum, although we were dissapointed that there weren't more exhibits. The Art Museum was amazing - we couldn't believe the number of …

  • 2

    Last day in DC and the Fausts

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    We managed to cram quite a bit into our short time here in DC. We were down to our last few items to clean off our list.

    We left around 9:45 to head over to the National Archives. As I mentioned, we just watched National Treasure (which the kids loved), so they were primed to see the Declaration of Independence, and hopefully the treasure …

  • 3

    Obama wasn't in....but the dinosaurs were!

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    Had aimed to get up a bit early today to go and try and go up the Washington Monument but we were still tired and Michelle's eyes were still really bad so we slept in a little more. Got up around 9 and met Emma in Starbucks so we all went together for a walk down to the monument via the white house then up to the Lincoln Memorial. I was really …

  • 4

    Capitol city

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    First off – how many people reading this know what DC stands for? Took me a couple of days walking past buildings saying District of Columbia to realise J

    We stayed at the most amazing B&B, Mount Vernon Square B&B (in the district of Mount Vernon Square, not at Mount Vernon Square – as we realised after carrying 50kg of …

  • 5

    Kids' first time in the U.S. Capital

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    We took the metro to the Smithsonian Station, then visited American History Museum, Natural History Museum, and met Ian's classmate from Shanghai in Space Museum.

    It was hot and exhausting day …

  • 6

    Star Spangled Banner

    We had pretty much planned our trip up until New York after that we were heading onto Canada and our good friends Abo (Bau, Brown Bear, Catkins, Chris) and Mel's place in Toronto until we flew out later in the month. Given we had some time up our sleeves we decided to pull a shifty detour south west 4 hours to Washington DC….home to America&# …

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    WDC - Thank you Police!

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    We got up at 7 a.m. packed our bags, had a cup of coffee in the balcony and headed for the bus station. We said goodbye to the busy streets of NY and headed for Washington. The trip took 4 hours so we used this time for catching g up on editing pictures and writing the blog.

    We got to the station at around 2 o'clock so we had 4 hours of …

  • 8

    Too many Museums! ,)

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    Song: Gil Scott Heron - Washington D.C

    We had in our Hostel our free breakfast, with a too friendly waiter guy! ,) At first he wanted to know "good morning" in a different language then english. (well no problem - Guten Morgen). After that he tried to move nearly every 5min people around, with always the same way. Lol. Like with me. He got …

  • 9

    Natural History Museum

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    Truthfully, I think the Natural History Museum in Denver, Colorado is better than this museum …

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  • 2

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  • 4

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  • 6

    Long shadows

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  • 7

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  • 8

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  • 9

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  • 10

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