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Port Discovery 35 Market Place Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 727-8120 www.portdiscovery.org Ranked by Child magazine as among the top five children’s museums in the country, Port Discovery offers ever-changing interactive fun for the whole family. Kids can climb up Kidworks, a three story urban tree house, use real tools to make inventions in R&D Dreamlab, travel back in time to ancient Egypt in Adventure Expeditions, be part of an interactive game show in MPT Studio and more. Open year round except for holidays. Admission charged. Laurel Park & Pimlico Route 198 and Racetrack Road Laurel, MD 20725 (301) 725-0400, (410) 792-7775 www.laurelpark.com www.pimlico.com www.preakness.com Laurel Park is located midway between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. and only seven miles from Fort Meade. Pimlico, under the same management, is located in Baltimore, and has been home to the renowned Preakness Stakes, since 1873. This second leg in Thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown is run annually on the third Saturday in May. Fort Meade Museum 4674 Griffin Avenue (301) 677-6966/7054 Museum hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. Office hours: Sunday to Saturday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Fort Meade Museum was established in 1963 as the First U.S. Army Museum. Its purpose was to honor the service and sacrifices of the American Soldier. In 1973, the museum became permanently established as the Fort George G. Meade Museum. Its purpose now is to collect, preserve, study and exhibit military artifacts – particularly those items related to Fort Meade – along with early American armor. The museum also provides educational services such as the identification of military artifacts, lectures about military history and the history of Fort Meade, and battle staff rides to local battlefields. The Fort Meade Museum is free and open to the general public. National Cryptologic Museum Md. Rte 32 and Md. Rte 295 (301) 688-5848/5849 museum@nsa.gov The exhibits at the National Cryptologic
Museum pertain to the history and impact of cryptology (the science of making and breaking codes and ciphers) on world events. Exhibits range from 500-year-old books to the modern super computer. Topic examples at the museum include the Enigma Cipher Machine, the American Civil War, Vietnam, World Wars I and II, aerial reconnaissance, the Korean War and information assurance.
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(800) 444-1324 or (202) 467-4600 (202) 416-8341 (group tours) www.kennedy-center.org
The museum is owned and operated by National Security Agency and is open to the public. Admittance is free. Both guided and self-guided tours are available.
Overlooking the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the nation’s busiest arts facility presents more than 3,300 performances each year for more than 2 million spectators. The Kennedy Center continues to fulfill the JFK’s vision by producing and presenting an unmatched variety of theater and musicals, dance and ballet, orchestral, chamber, jazz, popular and folk music, and multi-media performances for all ages.
Washington Navy Museum 805 Kidder Breeze, SE Washington, DC 20003 202-433-4882 www.history.navy.mil/branches/org8-1.htm
The Kennedy Center contains the Opera House, Concert Hall, Eisenhower Theater, the Terrace Theater, Hall of Nations and the American Film Institute Theater. A shuttle is available from Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro.
Not far from the Nationals Park baseball stadium and contained within a formidable red brick wall is the centuries-old Washington Navy Yard, home to, among other things, one of the nation’s most renowned U.S. Navy museums.
Lincoln Memorial 900 Ohio Drive, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20024 (202) 426-6841 www.nps.gov/linc/
Established in 1961, Washington Navy Museum is housed in an historic building containing a number of significant exhibits, among them the USS Constitution's fighting top and the Trieste, the world's deepest-diving submersible, made famous by a manned dive to the Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean near Guam.
The classic Greek temple memorial is located at West Potomac Park on the National Mall. This grand memorial overlooks the Reflecting Pool. Inside, the 19-foot marble statue of the 16th president is flanked by inscriptions of his Gettysburg Address and his second inaugural address. Open 24 hours a day; Rangers are on hand from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Free. The nearest metro is Foggy Bottom-GWU.
In addition, the USS Barry, a Forrest Sherman Class destroyer that was launched in 1955 and decommissioned in 1982, and which helped quarantine Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crises, is moored nearby and open to visitors. Admission to the Museum and its programs is free to the public; however museum officials request that visitors who do not have military or Department of Defense ID call in advance for an appointment. Jefferson Memorial 900 Ohio Drive, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20024 (202) 426-6821 or (202) 619-7222 www.nps.gov/thje A monument to our third president, this 19-foot bronze statue stands beneath a rotunda inscribed with passages from the Declaration of Independence and Jefferson’s other famous writings. Open 24 hours a day; Rangers are on hand from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Free. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 2700 F Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20566
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Memorial 900 Ohio Drive SW Washington, DC 20024 (202) 426-6841 www.nps.gov/frde Located adjacent to the Jefferson Memorial and near the Lincoln Memorial, the FDR Memorial pays tribute to the 32nd U.S. president and his leadership during a time of worldwide economic crisis and war. The only American president elected to more than two terms (he was elected to four), Roosevelt forged a durable coalition that realigned American politics for decades. FDR's combination of optimism and activism contributed to reviving the national spirit. National Air & Space Museum Independence Ave. at 6th Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20560 www.nasm.si.edu The National Air and Space Museum has hundreds of original, historic artifacts on display, including the Wright 1903 Flyer; the Spirit of St. Louis; the Apollo 11 command
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