Free Things To Do and See in Washington, DC - Washington, DC Free Things to Do

Free things to do in Washington, DC aren't difficult to find. Most of the District's museums, monument, memorials, parks and gardens are free and open to the public. I've put together a list of 101 free things to do in Washington, DC to help you plan your visit. Some are seasonal (and labeled as such) while others are free and open year round to visitors from around the world.

Free Things to Do in DC Year Round

1. Tour the White House
2. Tour the U.S. Capitol
3. The National Gallery of Art
4. The National Portrait Gallery
5. The Air & Space Museum
6. Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
7. Hirshhorn Museum & The National Sculpture Garden
8. The National Museum of Natural History
9. The National Museum of the American Indian
10. The National Postal Museum
11. The National Zoo
12. Anacostia Community Museum
13. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
14. Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
15. National Museum of American History
16. National Museum of African Art
17. Smithsonian Institution Building, the Castle
18. The Washington Monument
19. The Lincoln Memorial
20. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
21. The World War II Memorial
22. The Thomas Jefferson Memorial
23. The Theodore Roosevelt Island
24. Lyndon B. Johnson Grove
25. Library of Congress
26. FDR Memorial
27. Bureau of Printing & Engraving
28. The National U.S. Holocaust Museum
29. Arlington National Cemetery
30. The U.S. Supreme Court
31. C&O Canal Tow Path
32. The National Cathedral
33. The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
34. The John Paul II Center
35. Rock Creek Park
36. Old Stone House
37. Old Post Office Pavilion
38. The U.S. Botanic Gardens
39. Constitution Gardens
40. National Arboretum
41. Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
42. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
43. Folgers Shakespeare Library
44. National Archives
45. U.S. Navy Memorial & Museum
46. Walter Reed Medical Museum
47. National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
48. Albert Einstein Memorial
49. National Building Museum
50. A stroll through Eastern Market
51. The National Arboretum
52. Rock Creek Park Planetarium
53. Cultural Tourism DC Walking Tours
54. Great Falls
55. Capitol Dome Tour
56. U.S. Marine Corps. Memorial
57. White House Visitor Center

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