It’s a quiet and tranquil spot cloistered from the melee of M Street, and a good pit-stop if you’re looking for something cultural/historic to do while in the area for an afternoon. I volunteered there during my high school years, usually just taking tickets at the front door and occasionally working in the gift shop. Just down the way from Montrose Park, Tudor Place is a historic home. I lived on both R Street and 32nd Street after college, so we used this public park for picnics, walks, and boot camps my roommates and I used to participate in at 5:50 A.M.
Next door to Dumbarton Oaks is a great, usually quiet park on the Northside of Georgetown. Magpie and I have procured tickets to visit both the museum and the gardens. Another beautiful garden to wander - I have never actually been to the indoor museum but will be rectifying that in two weeks when Mr. The house is beautiful, and if you can find an interesting exhibit, that’s wonderful, too, but for me the piece de resistance are the gardens: the Lunar Lawn, the Japanese-style garden, the rose garden, the parterre. This museum has been running some interesting programming lately - I can’t wait to see the exhibit on Grace Kelley launching this week. This was walkable from my childhood home (!) and was the former residence of Marjorie Meriwether Post, known for collecting faberge eggs.
#SLAPDASH ANY OLD FREE#
It astounded me that the performance was free and superb but relatively few patrons lined the seats. They do some fantastic events and programming (sign up for emails to stay abreast) - we recently went to see an experimental theater performance of a play about Picasso that was absolutely exceptional. I interned at the Phillips in college and have always felt at home here. An impressive art museum just off Dupont Circle, much smaller and more approachable than the vast collections on The Mall.
The sculpture garden/grounds are spectacular, too. But let me tell you this: it’s a pretty rare thing to be left alone in a room with Picasso and Braque. It is a petite but exceptional collection, mainly of impressionists, cubists, and modernists, with some fascinating African mask art, too. Magpie and I visited a few weeks ago, we had the place to ourselves. At the moment, you need timed tickets to enter and when Mr. (Seen above.) One of my favorite art museums in the entire world? This was once a private residence and is situated in a residential area off Foxhall Road (not far from where my parents live!). I am here focusing on the smaller, less popularized spots we tend to visit more frequently. purposefully excluded from this list - on The Mall, at Mount Vernon, at the Kennedy Center, via The Smithsonian. This is not exhaustive and there are of course tons of other things to do and see in D.C. This is written in slapdash fashion, i.e., I am sitting down and spilling forth my top-of-mind favorites. D.C., right by Rock Creek Park, in a great stone house that I think has shaped me more than I have given it credit, and then lived in Georgetown during graduate school and Glover Park when newly married), I thought I might share some of my favorite things to see, do, and eat in the D.C. At any rate, nearly a year into living in the vicinity of my hometown (we actually live now in Bethesda, though I grew up in N.W. last summer, I have been comforted by the unchanged fixtures of cultural institutions and attractions I have loved since childhood and have suffered sea legs attempting to navigate the food scene I am still feeling as though we have not yet found all our “food spots,” but we will get there. area for the greater measure of my life, with temporary stints in Charlottesville, Lyon (France), Chicago, and New York City.
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