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341581
Meet Susan Stockdale
Author and illustrator Susan Stockdale reads her newest book, Fabulous Fishes, which uses simple, rhyming text to introduce children to fish, familiar and exotic. A book signing follows. Advance registration is required.
703.241.8281

6/21/08

Ages: 3-6
Time: 11am
Cost: Free

Aladdin's Lamp Children's Books

Lee Harrison Shopping Center, Lower Level Shops 2499 North Harrison Street, Suite 10
Arlington, VA 22207


Concerts
342818
Summer Concert Series: US Navy Commodores
Bring blankets, chairs, and a picnic dinner for a free concert under the starts. Catch the big band jazz sounds of the US Navy Commodores.
301.528.2260
http://www.blackrockcenter.org
6/21/08

Ages: All Ages
Time: 7pm
Cost: Free

BlackRock Center for the Arts

12901 Town Commons Drive
Germantown, MD 20874


Exhibits
52236
America on the Move
Take a journey though the history of the United States - a history shaped by transportation. The exhibition uses multimedia technology and historical artifacts to create period settings around times and places where transportation changed American lives and landscapes. Among the over 300 objects are a 1950s Chicago Transit Authority car; a 199-ton, 92-foot-long Southern Railway locomotive, the 1401; and a 1903 Winton, the first car driven across the United States.
202.633.1000
http://americanhistory.si.edu
Ongoing Daily 11/22/03 - 1/11/10; check with location for exceptions.

Ages: All Ages
Time: During museum hours
Cost: Free

National Museum of American History

14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20560


Exhibits
376391
Separate and Unequaled: Black Baseball in DC
From Reconstruction to the second half of the 20th century, baseball, the great American pastime, was played in Washington, DC, on segregated fields. The exhibition looks at the phenomenal popularity and community draw of this sport when played by African Americans. Featured are such personalities as Josh Gibson and "Buck" Leonard, star players of the Homestead Grays. The show also highlights community teams that gave rise to the various amateur, collegiate, and semipro black baseball teams and leagues.
202.383.1850
http://www.historydc.org
Ongoing Daily 5/18/08 - 10/5/08; check with location for exceptions.

Ages: All Ages
Time: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm
Cost: Free

The Historical Society of Washington, DC

801 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001


Exhibits
376392
Riots Are The Language of the Unheard
A multimedia exhibit consisting of photographs, video footage, and artifacts investigating the grievances that led to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. riots, the efforts to address those grievances, the riots, and their ripple effects.
202.383.1850
http://www.historydc.org
Ongoing Daily 6/1/08 - 12/15/08; check with location for exceptions.

Ages: 10-19
Time: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm
Cost: Free

The Historical Society of Washington, DC

801 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001


Exhibits
376394
An Illustrated History: the Negro Baseball Leagues
Through photographs and memorabilia, this traveling exhibit presents a timeline of the history of blacks in baseball.
202.383.1850
http://www.historydc.org
Ongoing Daily 5/18/08 - 10/5/08; check with location for exceptions.

Ages: All Ages
Time: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm
Cost: Free

The Historical Society of Washington, DC

801 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001


Exhibits
370437
East of the River: Continuity and Change
A documentation and exhibition project that looks at the community life of neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River on the occasion of the Anacostia Community Museum's 40th anniversary. The exhibit insightfully explores the development of Washington communities east of the Anacostia River from a provocative yet universal perspective - the struggle over land: who owns it, who controls it, who profits from it, and how residents determine their own destiny. The timeline covers the region's Native American beginning through the present and into possible futures.
202.633.4844
http://anacostia.si.edu
Ongoing Daily 9/15/07 - 11/9/08; check with location for exceptions.

Ages: 7-18
Time: During museum hours.
Cost: Free

Anacostia Community Museum

1901 Fort Place, SE
Washington, DC 20020


Exhibits
343351
TxtStyles/Fashioning Identity
Textiles are powerful communicators of status, gender and accomplishments in Africa. The exhibit's extraordinary costumes and textiles of the African continent range from ensembles to wrappers to wall hangings to chain mail and accessories/hats.
202.633.4636
http://www.nmafa.si.edu
Ongoing Daily 6/11/08 - 12/8/08; check with location for exceptions.

Ages: All Ages
Time: During museum hours
Cost: Free

National Museum of African Art

950 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20560


Exhibits
342030
G-Men and Journalists
G-Men and Journalists: Top News Stories of the FBI's First Century explores the role of the media in shaping the bureau's image and the sometimes cooperative, sometimes combative relationship between the press and the FBI. The exhibition features approximately 200 artifacts drawn from the FBI evidence vaults and the collections of other museums, reporters, law-enforcement professionals, private collectors and the Newseum.
888.639.7386
http://www.newseum.org
Ongoing Daily 6/20/08 - 6/20/09; check with location for exceptions.

Ages: All Ages
Time: 9am-5pm
Cost: Free with paid admission

Newseum

555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001


Exhibits
338350
China's Forgotten Fleet: Voyages of Zheng He
Nearly a century before Columbus arrived in the Americas, a massive Chinese armada commanded by Admiral Zheng He set sail on the first of seven epic voyages. China's Forgotten Fleet: Voyages of Zheng He tells the story of these little-known journeys and cultural exchanges through objects, maps, and ship models (including a 10-foot-long replica of a baochuan or treasure ship) from the National Museum in China and the Quanzhou Maritime Museum. Visitors travel in the fleet's path to five ports - Malacca, Sri Lanka, the Malabar Coast of India, the Arabian Peninsula, and Malindi in East Africa - and learn about Chinese navigation and shipbuilding methods.
202.857.7588
http://www.nat... hic.com/museum
Ongoing Daily 6/11/08 - 9/7/08; check with location for exceptions.

Ages: All Ages
Time: During museum hours.
Cost: Free

National Geographic Museum at Explorers Hall

1145 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036


Exhibits
338351
Shaolin: Temple of Zen
Over the past eight years, photographer Jus­tin Guariglia won the trust of the notoriously secretive warrior monks of the Shaolin Temple, a unique Chi­nese Buddhist sect dedicated to preserving a form of kung fu referred to as the "vehicle of Zen." Shaolin: Temple of Zen features images and video from Guariglia documenting these individuals, who consider themselves the keepers and masters of their centuries-old art forms in their original setting, a 1,500-year-old Buddhist temple.
202.857.7588
http://www.nat... hic.com/museum
Ongoing Daily 6/11/08 - 9/7/08; check with location for exceptions.

Ages: All Ages
Time: During museum hours.
Cost: Free

National Geographic Museum at Explorers Hall

1145 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036


Exhibits
333136
Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from Kabul
The exhibit Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul presents over 200 extraordinary artifacts unearthed in modern Afghanistan from a vault under the Presidential Palace in 2004. Ranging in date from 2200 BC to AD 200, the objects present a rich mosaic of Afghanistan's cultural heritage and are drawn from four archaeological sites. Maps illustrate the locations of some 1,500 archaeological sites, ancient cities, the routes known as the Silk Road, and regions that relate to the artifacts. A documentary film narrated by celebrated Afghan-American author, Khaled Hosseini, explores ancient Afghan culture, the history of these collections and their dramatic rediscovery.