Hours

Exhibits and Store Thursday-Friday, 12pm-7pm
Saturday-Sunday, 12pm-6pm

*Holiday Hours*
November 28-29: Closed
November 30: Open 12-4 pm
December 1: Open 12-4 pm
December 23-January 15: Closed
(Regular hours resume Thursday, January 16, 2025.)

Kiplinger Research Library By appointment
Tuesday and Thursday, 10am-3pm

*Holiday Hours*
November 28: Closed
December 12: Last photo orders of 2024
December 19: Last appointment of 2024
(Photo orders resume and first appointments of 2025 are available starting January 7.)

Address

801 K Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20001

Admission

Admission is free.

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.

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DC History Center
801 K Street Northwest, Washington, DC

Thursday-Friday, 12pm-7pm
Saturday-Sunday, 12pm-6pm

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As a private, nonprofit organization, the DC History Center relies on generous gifts from individuals, foundations, and corporations to support our mission. In times of upheaval and uncertainty, we rely on history to guide us.

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At the DC History Center, we tell the diverse stories of our nation’s capital to a broad community of learners. We seek to bring people together to satisfy their curiosity, learn each other’s stories, and develop respect for the larger community in which we live.

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