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papers, public appearances and films of Bob Hope and other entertainers, this exhibit looks into the interplay and impact of politics and entertainment in 20th-century American life. Open Monday-Saturday 8:30 to 4:30. 10 First
St. SE. 202-707-4604. James Madison
Building “Jed Hotchkiss, Shenandoah Valley Mapmaker.” A selection of maps created by Hotchkiss, Gen. Stonewall Jackson’s chief cartographer, will be on display on the basement level. Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. SE. 202-707-4604.
www.loc.gov.
MADAME TUSSAUDSWax figures of celebrities and historical figures. Open daily 10 to 6. 1025 F St. NW. 888-929-4632.
www.madametussauds. com. $20, $18 age 50 and older, $15 ages 3 to 12, younger free.
MANASSAS TOWN HALL“African American Trailblazers,” through Sept. 17. An exhibit sponsored by the Manassas Museum and on loan from the Library of Virginia featuring eight distinguished Virginians, including Gowan Pamphlet, Mary Smith Kelsey Peake and Dorothy Bigelow Hamm. Open Monday-Friday 9 to 5. , 9027 Center St., Manassas. 703-257-8200.
MOUNT CLARE MUSEUM HOUSE “Ruth Bolduan: 18th Century Portraiture Redefined,” through Nov. 6. Paintings of 18th-century life and patterns using bright colors. Tuesdays-Saturdays 10 to 4, Mondays by appointment. 1500 Washington Blvd., Baltimore. 410-837-3262.
www.mountclare.org. www.
mountclare.org. $6 adults, $5 seniors and students, age 5 and younger free.
MOUNT VERNON Open indefinitely: The home and burial place of George Washington offers information and tours about the first president. “A Leader’s Smile.” The lower half of George Washington’s dentures, as well as the first president’s last remaining tooth, are displayed. “Bringing Them Home: 150 Years of Restoring the Washington Collection.” Treasures found during the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association’s 150-year pursuit of Washington artifacts. Open daily 8 to 5. 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy., Alexandria. 703-780-2000.
www.visit.mountvernon.org. $15, $14 seniors, $7 ages 6 through 11; free for age 5 and younger.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES “Discovering the Civil War,” through Sept. 6. An exhibit of Civil War documents and photos drawn from the archives’ collection. Open indefinitely: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. “Polar Exploration.” A display of items from polar expeditions, including the first successful attempt to reach the North Pole in 1909 by Robert Peary. Open daily 10 to 7. Constitution Avenue and Ninth Street NW. 202-357-5000.
www.archives.gov. Free.
NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM “Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights From the Collection,” through Dec. 27. Open indefinitely: “Washington: Symbol and City.” “Lego Architecture: Towering Ambition.” Architectural artist Adam Reed Tucker uses Lego blocks to re-create landmarks including the Empire State Building. Open Sunday 11 to 5, Monday-Saturday 10 to 5. 401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448.
www.nbm.org. $5.
NATIONAL CAPITAL TROLLEY MUSEUMOpen indefinitely: Antique street cars and trams; trolley rides. “Street Car Communities.” Open Saturday-Sunday noon to 5. Northwest Branch Park, 1313 Bonifant Rd., Colesville. 301-384-6088. www.dctrolley. org. $4.
NATIONAL FIREARMS MUSEUM “Hollywood Guns.” A display of firearms used in movies, including guns from “Die Hard” and “Pulp Fiction.” Also included are weapons from “Star Wars” and “No Country for Old Men.”. Open daily 9:30 to 5. 11250 Waples Mill Rd., Fairfax. 703-267-1600.
www.nramuseum.org. Free.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, EAST BUILDING “In the Tower: Mark Rothko,” through Jan. 2. Black-on-black paintings that Rothko made in 1964 in connection with his work on a chapel for the Menil Collection in Houston. “Edvard Munch: Master Prints,” through Oct. 31. Human experience is documented in a display of 50 of the Norwegian artist’s prints. Open Monday-Saturday 10 to 5 and Sunday 11 to 6. Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
www.nga.
work of emerging female artists. “The Collaborative Print: Works From SOLO Impression,” through Sept. 13. A collection of prints by contemporary artists, such as Lynda Benglis and Howardena Pindell. “Dorothy Series,” through Sept. 13. June Wayne illustrates her mother’s life using photographs, documents and other memorabilia. Open daily 10 to 5, Sunday noon to 5. 1250 New York Ave. NW. 202-783-5000. www.
nmwa.org. $10 adults, $8 students and over 60, 18 and younger free.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN “Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture,” through Jan. 2. An exhibition highlighting the contribution of Native Americans to contemporary music, including Russell “Big Chief” Moore and Rita Coolidge. Open indefinitely: “Return to a Native Place: Algonquian Peoples of the Chesapeake.” Open daily 10 to 5:30. Fourth Street and Independence Avenue SW. 202-633-1000.
www.nmai.si.edu. Free.
CHRISTIE’S
It’s your last weekend to see Louis Armstrong’s trumpet and more in “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” the National Museum of American History’s exhibit on the Apollo Theater, closing Sunday.
CLOSING EXHIBITS Closing Friday: “Green: Art
With the Earth in Mind” at Annmarie Garden (410-326-4640); “Local Color” at the American City Building, Artists’ Gallery (410-740-8249); “Portray” at Addison/Ripley (202-338-5180); “The Color of Summer” at Brookside Gardens (301-962-1400); “Trio of Elements: A Collaboration of Wood, Clay and Silk” at the Embassy of Japan (202-238-6949). . . . Closing Saturday: “Cool” at Gallery 10 (202-232-3326); “Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community” at the Historical Society of Washington (202-383-1850); “Ruptured Walls: Flower Paintings” and “Germination Projects” at the International Arts & Artists’ Hillyer Art Space (202-338-0680); first juried exhibition at City Gallery (202-468-5277). . . . Closing Sunday: “13th Annual National Small Works” and work by Richie Lasansky at Washington Printmakers Gallery
(301-273-3660); “1460 Wall Mountables” at the D.C. Arts Center (202-462-7833); “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment” at the National Museum of American History (202-633-1000); “Dupont Circle Series,” “Community of Fire” and members’ art show at the Foundry Gallery (202-463-0203); “House of the Americas Turns 100: Paul Philippe Cret and the Architecture of Dialogue” at the Art Museum of the Americas (202-458-6016); “McLean Art Society Summer Show” at the American Horticultural Society at George Washington’s River Farm (800-777-7931); “One Life: Echoes of Elvis” at the National Portrait Gallery (202-633-1000); “Rock and Wall” and “Bridges” at the Artists’ Gallery (301-696-8187); “The Four Seasons” and Diane Shiely Frykman at Green Spring Gardens (703-642-5173); “Varieties” at the Vienna Arts
Society Gallery (703-319-3220); Richard Harryman solo exhibition at the Main Street Gallery (410-216-7166). . . . Closing Monday: “L’ Chaim, to Life” at the ArtSites Guild for Judaic Art (301-593-0273); “New Paintings and New Painters: William Irvine, Jacob Cooley, Zane Hochberg, Donny Finley, Alyce Frank” at Marin-Price Galleries (301-718-0622); “Portraits Out of Time” and “Toy Lifes” at the Studio Gallery (202-232-8734); Town of Somerset artists’ exhibit at the Friendship Heights Village Center (301-656-2797). . . . Closing Tuesday: “Earth’s Bounty” at the Belnavis Art Gallery (703-866-0040); “Stewart White” at the McBride (410-267-7077); August visiting artists at the Torpedo Factory Art Center (703-838-4565). . . . . Closing Wednesday: “Monumental Moment” at Alliance Francaise (202-234-7911).
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY “One Life: Echoes of Elvis,” through Sunday. Portraits of the King mark the 75th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s birth. “From FDR to Obama: Presidents on Time,” through Sept. 26. The exhibit explores the modern presidency through the covers of America’s oldest weekly news magazine. Representing a wide variety of mediums, from traditional oil paintings to a pop-art sculpture bust of Richard Nixon made from strips of newspaper headlines. Open indefinitely: J.D. Salinger portrait.” The Catcher in the Rye” author is immortalized in Robert Vickrey’s painting. “Americans Now.” The National Portrait gallery surveys the past 10 years in popular culture with a collection of portraits depicting individuals from sports, politics and entertainment. Portraits include the president and first lady, Cormac McCarthy, Martha Stewart, Willie Nelson, Michael Eisner and Toni Morrison. Open daily 11:30 to 7. Eighth and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.
www.npg.si.edu. Free.
NATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM “Alphabetilately,” through Oct. 29. A collection of stamps and artifacts that depict the American experience. Open indefinitely: “Customers and Communities.” Open daily 10 to 5:30. 2 Massachusetts Ave. NE. 202-633-5555.
www.postalmuseum.si.edu. Free.
NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND FINE ART MUSEUM.A collection of 17,000 books preserve the literature, art and culture of horse and field sports, such as polo and thoroughbred racing. The museums’ library also displays sporting art. Tuesday-Friday 10 to 4, Saturday 1 to 4. 102 The Plains Rd., Middleburg. 540-687-6542.
www.nsl.org. Free.
gov. Free.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WEST BUILDING “Beat Memories,” through Sept. 6. A series of photographs taken by poet Allen Ginsberg. “German Master Drawings From the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 to 1900,” through Nov. 28. Open Monday-Saturday 10 to 5 and Sunday 11 to 6. Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
www.nga.gov. Free.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC “Design for the Other 90 Percent,” through Sept. 6. Researchers, designers and architects search for ways to help the majority of the world’s population in poverty. “Da Vinci — The Genius,” through Sept. 12. Over the course of 10 years, a team of modern artisans has built life-size versions of more than 60 of Da Vinci’s inventions, based on his sketches and notes. A special section shows the “Mona Lisa” as it was originally painted, thanks to multispectral imaging photography. Open Monday-Saturday 9 to 5, Sunday 10 to 5. 17th and M streets NW. 202-857-7588.
www.nationalgeographic. com/museum. Free.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CRIME & PUNISHMENT Open indefinitely: Various
displays about the history of crime, crime-fighting and punishment in the United States. Ted Bundy’s VW Beetle. Open daily 10 to 8. 575 Seventh St. NW. 202-393-1099.
www.crimemuseum.org. Web tickets: $17.95, $14.95 seniors and ages 5 to 11, free for age 4 and younger. Regular tickets: $19.95, $16.95 seniors and ages 5 to 11, free for age 4 and younger.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE Open indefinitely: “Abraham Lincoln: The Final Casualty of the War.” The exhibit focuses on the last hours of Lincoln’s life including the bullet that killed him, the probe used to locate the bullet, bone fragments and hair from the site of the wound. Displays about medicine, including the world’s largest and most representative collection of microscopes, human bodies and skeletons. Open daily 10 to 5:30. 6900 Georgia Ave. NW, Building 54. 202-782-2200. nmhm.washingtondc. museum. Free.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE Open indefinitely: “The Emergence of American English.” American English as it changed from the British English of around 1812. “Writing Language: Passing It On.” Displays on alphabetic and
logographic writing systems. Open Tuesday and Saturday 10 to 4, and the first and third Sunday of the month 1 to 4. 7100 Baltimore Ave., College Park. 301-864-7071.
www.languagemuseum.org. Free.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY “Losing Paradise: Endangered Plants Here and Around the World,” through Dec. 12. A traveling exhibition of 45 botanical illustrations by members of the American Society of Botanical Artists brings attention to the vast number of endangered plant species, about a fifth of the world’s flora. Open indefinitely: The Hope Diamond. The precious stone is exhibited for the first time as a stand-alone gem while a new, permanent setting is fabricated. “Celebrating 100 Years at the National Museum of Natural History.” A photographic exhibition recalling the museum’s evolution from the time its doors first opened in 1910 to the present day. Open daily 10 to 7:30. 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-633-1000.
www.mnh.si.edu. Free.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS “Body of Work: New Perspectives on Figurative Painting,” through Sept. 12. Part of the “Women to Watch 2010” series, which features the
NEWSEUM “Elvis! His Groundbreaking, Hip-Shaking, Newsmaking Story,” through Feb. 14. An exhibit about Elvis Presley as he was portrayed in the media and how his music and physicality pushed boundaries. Includes private telegrams, letters and scrapbooks. Open indefinitely: “G-Men and Journalists: Top News Stories of the FBI’s First Century.” Coverage of the FBI’s most famous investigations. “Inside Tim Russert’s Office: If It’s Sunday, It’s ‘Meet the Press.” The former “Meet the Press” host’s office is partially reassembled to reflect how it appeared during his 17 years as the show’s moderator. Open daily 9 to 5. 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 888-639-7386.
www.newseum.org. $19.95, $17.95 seniors, military and students, free for age 18 and younger.
PHILLIPS COLLECTION “Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White Paintings,” through Sept. 12. Mostly monochrome work from Richard Pousette-Dart. “Robert Ryman: Variations & Improvisations,” through Sept. 12. A series of small, monochromatic paintings. Open indefinitely: Collection of 19th- and 20th-century European and American paintings. Open Sunday 11 to 6; Thursday 10 to 8:30; Tuesday. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10 to 5. 1600 21st St. NW. 202-387-2151. www.
phillipscollection.org. $12, $10 for seniors and students, free for age 18 and younger. The permanent collection and weekday admission by donation.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S COTTAGE Open indefinitely: Multimedia tours give insight into the life of the 16th president. “Being Lincoln.” A look into the lives of Abraham Lincoln impersonators and what
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