Washington’s most popular museum recommendations, Washington local travel guide

Washington is home to many world-famous museums and has been rated as the best museum travel destination in the world several times. The following is the editor’s list of the seven most popular museums for traveling to Washington. 1. National Air and Space Museum National Air and Space Museum The National Air and Space Museum, which opened in July 1976, is one of the many museums created by the Smithsonian Institution and is the world's leading museum dedicated to aviation. The museum houses many "stars" in the history of aerospace, such as the Wright brothers' plane, the Apollo 11 return capsule, etc. In addition to daily free interpretation tours, the museum also has an IMAX cinema, an astronomical observatory, science experiment displays and children's story time. It attracts 8 million visitors from all over the world every year, making it the most popular museum in the United States. 2. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History was opened in 1910. It has as many as 120 million exhibits, ranging from dinosaur fossils to various well-preserved precious animal specimens, rare minerals, etc. This is also the filming location of the famous movie "Night at the Museum". 3. National Museum of American History (NaturalMuseumOfAmericanHistory) The National Museum of American History opened to the public in 1964 and was officially renamed the National Museum of History in 1980. The museum's more than 3 million collections tell visitors about this short but unique history of the United States from all aspects of life. From presidential supplies and First Lady dresses to movie costumes and everyday life, no matter which part of American history you are looking for, you can find it here. 4. National Museum of the American Indian The National Museum of the American Indian was established in 1989 and was sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. It is the first cultural anthropology museum in the United States dedicated to displaying the history, life, language, literature, and art of indigenous Indians. It has the world's largest and richest collection of exhibits on the lives and art of indigenous American Indians, with a total of more than 80,000 pieces, and the exhibits span more than 10,000 years. From the perspective of cultural anthropology, it divides the exhibition into different themes such as "Our Starry Sky", "Our Life", "Our Language", etc., comprehensively and profoundly showing the material life and spiritual pursuit of the indigenous Indians from the perspective of production, life and cultural methods such as food, clothing, housing and transportation. 5. National Postal Museum The National Postal Museum of the United States mainly displays the development history of the United States Postal Service. It has several main exhibition halls such as "Binding America", "Customers and Communities", "Transmitting Mail", "The Art of Cards and Letters" and "Stamps and Stories". In the "Discovery Center", children and adults can also have two-way interactive displays. 6. The Freer Gallery of Art The Freer Gallery and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery jointly form the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Asian Art and Mediterranean Art. The collection includes art from the Mediterranean, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Arabia, the Ancient Near East and ancient Egypt, as well as American art. It mainly exhibits precious and rare East Asian cultural relics, with China and Japan having the largest collections. 7. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is located between the Smith Institution and the Air and Space Museum. It mainly displays a variety of modern art and sculptures. Originally established to house Joseph Hirshhorn's own collection of 20th-century paintings and sculptures, the museum has now evolved into an emerging museum area with texts, paintings, pictures, sculptures and digital images. The unique exterior designed by Gordon Bunshaft and the high-tech interior installations form an excellent match with the various eccentric modern art exhibits. Washington local tour starts immediately: Reminder: Don’t rush to remit money or pay a deposit before seeing the real thing to avoid being cheated. Other food-travel related pictures