Bureau of Engraving and PrintingYou'll see millions of dollars being printed beginning with large, blank sheets of paper, and ending with wallet-ready bills! Tours are every 15 minutes, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
College Park Aviation MuseumVisit the world's oldest continuously operating airport, with a museum of interactive exhibits and programs for kids including aviation crafts, kite and model making, movie and a lecture series.
Discovery Creek Children’s Museum
Bringing your environmentally-obsessed child to this unique museum and nature center is a must. They'll love seeing conservation and ecology lessons they learned in school get put into action. Explore science and nature through hands-on activities at the small museum inside Glen Echo Park.
Good Night Magic Castle and Museum
This small theme park in Beltsville, Maryland offers magic shows, workshops and interactive mythical programs for families, school groups, scout troops and children's clubs. Summer camp programs and birthday parties are available.
Mount Vernon
Learn about the father of our country. Visit the 500-acre estate of George Washington and his family. Tour the 14-room beautifully restored mansion furnished with original objects dating back to the 1740's. Don't forget to check out the outbuildings, including the kitchen, visit the slave quarters, smokehouse, coach house and stables.
National Museum of Natural History
The Discovery Room is a great hands-on display for young children. Feel the skin of a crocodile, examine the jaws and teeth of different animals or try on clothes from around the globe. Be sure to check out the Insect Zoo, Dinosaur Hall and Sea Life Hall.
National Air and Space Museum and Steven F. Udvar–Hazy CenterKids can explore the planes and spaceships, watch an IMAX movie and visit the planetarium. Check out the displays hundreds of famous spacecraft, rockets, satellites and space-related small artifacts to include the Space Shuttle
Enterprise. Other space artifacts include the Gemini VII space capsule; the Mobile Quarantine Unit used upon the return of the Apollo 11 crew; and a Redstone rocket.
National Geographic Museum at Explorers HallThis small high-tech exhibit hall features temporary exhibits that explore nature and human cultures of all over the world through spectacular photography and interactive displays. The museum, located in downtown Washington, DC, appeals to all ages and takes about an hour to visit.
National Museum of American History
Visit the hands-on science and invention center and America on the Move where you'll see how transportation shaped America. Visit the new Spark!Lab, the "Invention at Play" and "America on the Move" exhibitions, and pick up a free family guide to hunt for faces of American history. Look for hands-on carts, see the new Star-Spangled Banner exhibition and its interactive table, and don't miss Kermit the frog or Dorothy's ruby slippers!
Rose Hill Manor Park and MuseumTake a tour of this historic manor located in Frederick, Maryland. The manor was the retirement home of Maryland's first elected Governor, Thomas Johnson and a Children's Museum, Carriage Museum, and Farm Museum. It is the first rural hands-on history museum in the United States designed for elementary school-aged children, this delightful museum provides daily history tours up to two hours in length.
Washington Navy YardLearn about more than 200 years of naval history through interactive exhibits and displays including naval artifacts, models, documents and fine art. Exhibits include model ships, undersea vehicles, sub periscopes, a space capsule, a decommissioned destroyer and much more.