https://catherinecrouch.com//wp-content/plugins/cherry-plugin/admin/import-export/upload.php Pictures of Smithsonian Institution buildings and exhibits in Washington, D.C.–All of the pictures on this page were taken on the Mall between the Capitol Building and the Washington Monument:
Smithsonian Castle
Enid A. Haupt Garden
Smithsonian Castle
Exterior Detail
Castle (view from due west)
Natural History Museum (as seen from the Hirshhorn)
Natural History Rotunda
Natural History (interior detail)
Natural History (atrium elevator)
Natural History (gift shop)
Smithsonian Castle
Natural History looking
( toward cafeteria entrance)
Freer Gallery
Freer (entrance alcove detail)
insensitively Sackler Gallery:
Entrance and Atrium Stairwell
Entrance and Atrium Ceiling
Stairwell looking up
Stairwell looking up
The National Museum of African Art:
Entrance
Entrance and Atrium Ceiling
Looking up stairwell
Looking up stairwell
Exterior
Window (detail)
Rockets on the Mall
DC3 & skylight (close-up)
Mars Lander
Air & Space Museum–Udvar-Hazy Center: In December, 2003, the new extension of the Air & Space Museum (the Udvar-Hazy Center) opened out near Dulles Airport. Basically, it is a huge hangar, some 900 feet long, where scores of aircraft are displayed, both on the ground, and hanging from the ‘rafters’:
Junkers Ju 52/3m,
Lufthansa
Concorde & XV-15
Federal Express
Sukhoi SU-26M,
red, blue, purple cowling
Corsair
SR-71 “Blackbird”
Looking up stairwell
Enola Gay, looking into the cockpit
Russian SA missile on launcher
Phantom II ( and others)
Boeing P-26A Peashooter
Panoply
Behring Mammals Hall at the National Museum of Natural History:
Mammals Hall before open for day
Lions bring down a wildebeest
Animals drinking
Tiger leaping
Sculpture on the Mall (at or near the Hirshhorn):
Mark di Surevo’s ‘Are the Years What (for Marianne Moore)’ 1967
Mark di Surevo’s ‘Are the Years What (for Marianne Moore)’ 1967
Miro’s ‘Lunar Bird’ 1944-46 (enlarged & cast 1966-67)
The National Gallery of Art (East Wing & West Wing) is also on the Mall. For my page of East Wing images, see National Gallery East Wing. For West Wing images, see National Gallery West Wing.
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