Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is a group of museums, education and research centers, created by the United States federal government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Building
- Description: group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government
- Also known as: “Smithsonian”, “Smithsonian Castle”, “The Castle”, and “The Smithsonian”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Mall and National Museum of African Art.
National Mall
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The National Mall, a national park, is a famous 2-mile-long tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly boulevard in Washington, D.C. stretching from the Capitol Building in the east to the Lincoln Memorial and Potomac River on the west.
National Museum of African Art
Museum
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The National Museum of African Art is the Smithsonian Institution's African art museum, located on the National Mall of the United States capital. Its collections include 9,000 works of traditional and contemporary African art from both Sub-Saharan and North Africa, 300,000 photographs, and 50,000 library volumes.
National Museum of Natural History
Museum
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The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. National Museum of Natural History is situated 920 feet north of Smithsonian Institution.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Downtown and East End.
Downtown
Suburb
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Downtown is the central business district of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. It is the third largest central business district in the United States.
East End
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East End is D.C.'s old downtown quarter, east of 15th St, and includes the neighborhoods of Chinatown, Penn Quarter, Judiciary Square, and Mount Vernon Square. Most D.C. natives simply call this area Downtown.
Waterfront
The Waterfront is just south of the National Mall. In addition to beautiful views of the Washington Channel, which separates the parkland on Hains Point with the land contiguous with the National Mall, this neighborhood includes great seafood, restaurants, bars, sports stadiums, entertainment options and boat excursions.
Smithsonian Institution
- Categories: institution, business, nonprofit organization, and museum
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Smithsonian Institution” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Arabic: “مؤسسة سميثسونيان”
- Arabic: “مؤسسه سميثسونيان”
- Arabic: “معهد سميثسونيان”
- Armenian: “Սմիթսոնյան ինստիտուտ”
- Arpitan: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Asturian: “Institutu Smithsoniano”
- Asturian: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Azerbaijani: “Smitsonian İnstitutu”
- Balinese: “Institusi Smithsonian”
- Basque: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Basque: “Smithsonian”
- Bavarian: “Smithonian”
- Bavarian: “Smithsonian Institut”
- Bavarian: “Smithsonian Institute”
- Bavarian: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Belarusian: “Смітсанаўскі інстытут”
- Belarusian: “Сьмітсанаўскі інстытут”
- Bulgarian: “Смитсонов институт”
- Bulgarian: “Смитсънов институт”
- Catalan: “Institució Smithsonian”
- Catalan: “Institució Smithsoniana”
- Catalan: “Institut Smithsonià”
- Catalan: “Institut Smithsonian”
- Catalan: “Institut Smithsoniano”
- Catalan: “Institute Smithsonian”
- Catalan: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Catalan: “Smithsonian”
- Chinese: “史密斯協會”
- Chinese: “史密斯研究院”
- Chinese: “史密松學院”
- Chinese: “史密松寧學會”
- Chinese: “史密森博物馆”
- Chinese: “史密森学会”
- Chinese: “史密森尼博物院”
- Chinese: “史密森尼博物館”
- Chinese: “史密森尼学会”
- Chinese: “史密森尼學會”
- Chinese: “史密生博物館”
- Chinese: “史密生博物馆”
- Chinese: “史密生學會”
- Chinese: “国家货币收藏”
- Chinese: “國家貨幣收藏”
- Czech: “Smithsoniánský institut”
- Czech: “Smithsonův institut”
- Danish: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Danish: “Smithsonian”
- Danish: “The Smithsonian Institution”
- Dutch: “Smithsonian Institute”
- Dutch: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Dutch: “Smithsonian Instituut”
- Dutch: “Smithsonian-instituut”
- Dutch: “Smithsonian”
- Dutch: “United States National Museum”
- Esperanto: “Institucio Smithsonian”
- Esperanto: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Estonian: “Smithsoni asutus”
- Estonian: “Smithsoni instituut”
- Estonian: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Estonian: “Smithsonian Museum”
- Estonian: “Smithsonian”
- Finnish: “Smithsonian Institute”
- Finnish: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Finnish: “Smithsonian Instituutti”
- Finnish: “Smithsonian-instituutti”
- Finnish: “Smithsonian”
- French: “Institut Smithsonian”
- French: “Institut Smithsonien”
- French: “Smithsonian Institute”
- French: “Smithsonian Institution”
- French: “Smithsonian Museum”
- French: “Smithsonian”
- Galician: “Instituto Smithsoniano”
- Galician: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Georgian: “ვაშინგტონის სმითსონის ინსტიტუტი”
- Georgian: “სმითსონის ინსტიტუტი”
- German: “Smithsonian Institut”
- German: “Smithsonian Institute”
- German: “Smithsonian Institution”
- German: “Smithsonian-Institut”
- German: “Smithsonian”
- Greek: “Ίδρυμα Σμιθσόνιαν”
- Greek: “Ινστιτούτο Σμιθσόνιαν”
- Gujarati: “સ્મિથસોનિયન ઇન્સ્ટિટ્યુટ”
- Hebrew: “המכון הסמית’סוני”
- Hebrew: “המכון הסמיתסוני”
- Hebrew: “הסמית’וניאן”
- Hebrew: “הסמית’סוניאן”
- Hebrew: “מכון סמית’סוניאן”
- Hebrew: “סמית’וניאן”
- Hebrew: “סמית’סוניאן”
- Hebrew: “סמיתסוניאן”
- Hungarian: “Smithsonian Intézet”
- Icelandic: “Smithsonian-söfnin”
- Icelandic: “Smithsonian-stofnunin”
- Iloko: “Instituto ti Smithsoniano”
- Indonesian: “Institusi Smithsonian”
- Indonesian: “Lembaga Smithsonian”
- Indonesian: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Interlingua: “Instituto Smithsonian”
- Irish: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Italian: “Istituto Smithsoniano”
- Italian: “Smithsonian Institute”
- Italian: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Italian: “Smithsonian”
- Japanese: “スミソニアン”
- Japanese: “スミソニアン協会”
- Japanese: “スミソニアン博物館”
- Japanese: “スミソニアン学術協会”
- Japanese: “スミソニアン研究所”
- Japanese: “スミソニアン航空博物館”
- Japanese: “国立スミソニアン博物館”
- Korean: “스미스소니언 박물관”
- Korean: “스미스소니언 협회”
- Korean: “스미스소니언”
- Latin: “Institutum Smithsonianum”
- Latvian: “Smitsona institūts”
- Lithuanian: “Smithsonian institutas”
- Lithuanian: “Smitsono institutas”
- Macedonian: “Смитсонова установа”
- Malay: “Institusi Smithsonian”
- Malayalam: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Malayalam: “സ്മിത് സോണിയൻ ഇൻസ്റ്റിറ്റ്യൂഷൻ”
- Malayalam: “സ്മിത്സോണിയൻ ഇൻസ്റ്റിറ്റ്യൂഷൻ”
- Manx: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Manx: “Undinys Smithsonian”
- Mongolian: “Смитсоны хүрээлэн (АНУ)”
- Mongolian: “Смитсоны хүрээлэн”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Smithsonian”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Norwegian: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Smithsonian Institution”
- Ossetian: “Смитсоны институт”
- Persian: “مؤسسه اسمیتسونین”
- Persian: “مؤسسهٔ اسمیتسونین”
- Persian: “موسسه اسمیتسونین”
- Persian: “موسسه سمیثسونین”
- Polish: “Institut Smithsona”
- Polish: “Smithsonian Institute”
- Polish: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Portuguese: “Instituto smithsonian”
- Portuguese: “Instituto Smithsoniano”
- Portuguese: “Museu Smithsonian”
- Portuguese: “Smithsonian Institute”
- Portuguese: “Smithsonian institution”
- Portuguese: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Portuguese: “Smithsonian”
- Portuguese: “The Smithsonian Institution”
- Romanian: “Institutul Smithsonian”
- Russian: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Russian: “Смитсонианский институт”
- Russian: “Смитсоновский институт”
- Serbian: “Smitsonovski institut”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Slovenian: “Smithsonian Institute”
- Slovenian: “Smithsonian”
- Slovenian: “Smithsonov inštitut”
- South Azerbaijani: “سميتسونيان اينستيتوتو”
- Spanish: “Institucion Smithsonian”
- Spanish: “Institución Smithsonian”
- Spanish: “Institucion smithsoniana”
- Spanish: “Institución smithsoniana”
- Spanish: “Instituto Smithsonian”
- Spanish: “Instituto Smithsoniano”
- Spanish: “Smithsonian Institute”
- Spanish: “Smithsonian Institution Archives”
- Spanish: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Spanish: “Smithsonian”
- Spanish: “Smithsoniano”
- Swedish: “Smithsonian Institute”
- Swedish: “Smithsonian institution”
- Swedish: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Swedish: “Smithsonian-institutionen”
- Swedish: “Smithsonian”
- Swedish: “The Smithsonian Institute”
- Tajik: “институти Смитсон”
- Tamil: “சிமித்சோனிய நிறுவனம்”
- Tatar: “Смитсон институты”
- Telugu: “Smithsonian Institute”
- Telugu: “స్మిత్ సోనియన్ సంస్థ”
- Telugu: “స్మిత్సోనియన్ ఇన్స్టిట్యూషన్”
- Telugu: “స్మిత్సోనియన్ ఇన్స్టిట్యూషన్”
- Telugu: “స్మిత్సోనియన్ సంస్థ”
- Thai: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์สมิธซันเนียน”
- Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์สมิธโซเนียน”
- Thai: “สถาบันสมิธซันเนียน”
- Thai: “สถาบันสมิธโซเนียน”
- Thai: “สมิทซันเนียน”
- Thai: “สมิทโซเนียน”
- Thai: “สมิธซันเนียน”
- Thai: “สมิธโซเนียน”
- Turkish: “Smithsonian Enstitüsü”
- Ukrainian: “Smithsonian Institution”
- Ukrainian: “Смітсонівська установа”
- Ukrainian: “Смітсонівський інститут”
- Ukrainian: “Смітсонський інститут”
- Urdu: “سمتھسونین انسٹی ٹیوشن”
- Vietnamese: “Viện Smithsonian”
- Welsh: “Sefydliad Smithsonian”
- Western Armenian: “Սմիթսոնեան ինստիտուտ”
- Western Frisian: “Smithsonian Ynstitút”
- Western Panjabi: “سمتھسونین انسٹیٹیوشن”
- Wu Chinese: “史密森尼学会”
- Yue Chinese: “史密森尼學會”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Smithsonian Grounds and Agriculture Grounds.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Smithsonian Institution Arts and Industries Building and Colombian Legation Building.
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