Directions
The DC History Center is located two blocks south of the Mount Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center Metro Station (yellow and green lines) and two blocks north of the Gallery Pl-Chinatown Metro station (red, yellow, and green lines). Use Metro’s Trip Planner for specific directions on Metrorail or Metrobus.
Holidays
All DC History Center operations are closed on the following holidays:
- New Year’s Day
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- President’s Day
- Memorial Day
- Juneteenth
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Indigenous Peoples’ Day
- Veterans’ Day
- Thanksgiving Day
- Christmas Day
We are open on the District’s lone municipal holiday, Emancipation Day.