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National Children's Museum

National Children's Museum from directly overhead

National Children's Museum is a museum, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the west, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Federal Triangle Flowers Sculpture, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. George Washington Memorial Parkway passes 1.6 miles off. 35 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Combining science center content with a children’s museum experience, National Children's Museum is a hands-on space that ignites curiosity and inspires young children to explore science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (or STEAM) through whimsica

Visiting

What to expect

Fee: Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates38.89427, -77.02989

1.6 mi off the George Washington Memorial Parkway, National
4.7 mi off the Booth's Escape
5.3 mi off the Star-Spangled Banner Byway
7.4 mi off the Old Georgetown Pike

Overlooks nearby

Freedom Park Viewpoint · 2 mi
Viewing Area · 2 mi
George Washington Memorial Parkway Overlook 1 · 4 mi
George Washington Memorial Parkway Overlook 2 · 5 mi

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks

Federal Triangle Flowers Sculpture: 0.0 mi
Bearing Witness: 0.0 mi
Federal Triangle Flowers Sculpture: 0.0 mi
Justice: 0.1 mi
Reason: 0.1 mi

Historic sites

Brigadier General Count Casimir Pulaski: 0.1 mi
Great Seal of the United States: 0.1 mi
Thomas Hollowell: 0.2 mi
National World War I Memorial: 0.2 mi
Original Patentees of D.C.: 0.2 mi

Museums

Old Post Office Tower and Museum: 0.1 mi
National Museum of American History: 0.2 mi
Petersen House: 0.3 mi
National Museum of African American History and Culture: 0.3 mi
National Museum of Natural History: 0.3 mi

Parks

Sherman Park: 0.3 mi
Agriculture Grounds: 0.3 mi
The Ellipse: 0.4 mi
Pollinator Garden: 0.4 mi
Smithsonian Grounds: 0.4 mi

Gardens

White House Kitchen Garden: 0.4 mi
German-American Friendship Garden: 0.4 mi
Children's Garden: 0.4 mi
Rose Garden: 0.4 mi
Moongate Garden: 0.5 mi

Attractions

Picnic sites

Picnic site for Rose park: 1.6 mi
Picnic Grove 29: 3.1 mi
Picnic Grove 1: 3.3 mi
Picnic Grove 2 South: 3.4 mi
Picnic Grove 2 South: 3.6 mi

Nature reserves

Roaches Run Waterfowl Sanctuary: 2.3 mi
Fort Bennet Park and Palisades Trail: 2.7 mi
Reservation 630: 3.5 mi
Soapstone Valley: 3.9 mi
Alger Park: 4.0 mi

Peaks35

Peters Hill: 1.1 mi
Jackson Hill: 2.3 mi
Lees Hill: 2.3 mi
Mackeys Hill: 2.7 mi
Camp Hill: 2.7 mi

Springs5

Takoma Spring: 5.6 mi
Silver Spring: 6.6 mi
Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 7.5 mi
Indian Springs: 10.3 mi
Sandy Spring: 17.0 mi

Cliffs5

Beaches4

Fishing Shore: 3.8 mi
Lake Barcroft Beach: 7.2 mi
Purplehorse Beach: 12.8 mi
Sycamore Beach: 12.9 mi

Waterfalls4

Stubblefield Falls: 10.3 mi
Scott's Run Falls: 10.6 mi
Great Falls: 14.0 mi
Coe Creek: 21.4 mi

Ghost towns1

Wilson: 24.3 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of National Children's Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Gantt Hill	W 281°	156 m	11.1 mi
Hunting Hill	NW 326°	156 m	16.0 mi
Black Hill	NW 325°	148 m	24.8 mi
Mount Daniel	W 272°	144 m	8.2 mi
Minor's Hill	W 275°	140 m	6.9 mi
Freedom Hill	W 280°	140 m	11.6 mi
Prout Hill	W 264°	137 m	8.8 mi
Upton Hill	WSW 258°	125 m	6.4 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:13	18:45	19:20
June solstice	05:44	19:58	20:38
September equinox	06:56	18:32	19:07
December solstice	07:24	16:08	16:50

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	38	40	48	58	67	76	81	79	72	61	50	42
Precip in	2.9	2.6	3.5	3.2	3.9	4.2	4.3	3.3	3.9	3.7	2.9	3.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Washington Reagan Natl AP, 3 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Official site

OpenStreetMap element node/8898336471

Day trips start here

Washington, D.C./East End · 0 mi
Washington, D.C./National Mall · 0 mi
Washington, D.C./Dupont Circle · 1 mi
Washington, D.C./West End · 1 mi
Arlington National Cemetery · 2 mi
Washington, D.C./Adams Morgan-Columbia Heights · 2 mi

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