National Air and Space Museum

Independence Avenue and 6th Street, SW
Washington, DC

airandspace.si.edu

10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily
(7:30 p.m. during extended hours)
Closed December 25

Admission is free

About

Launch into the history of flight by surrounding yourself with icons of air and space travel. The flagship building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C, contains twenty-three galleries exhibiting hundreds of aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, rockets, and other flight-related artifacts. The museum has a planetarium and an IMAX theater for out-of-this-world escapes.

The museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, in Chantilly, Virginia, houses many more artifacts in an open, hangar-like setting, including a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird and space shuttle Discovery.

Highlights

1903 Wright Flyer; Spirit of St. Louis, SpaceShipOne, Hubble Space Telescope test vehicle, How Things Fly activities and demonstrations, Einstein Planetarium, and IMAX® films shown on a five-story-high screen

Dining

Food Court (First Floor-East Wing)
McDonald's, Boston Market, and Donato's Pizza: hamburgers, French fries, chicken, pizza, salad, milk, sodas, shakes and desserts.
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Open until 7 p.m. during the museum's extended hours.

McDonald's and McCafé
(Upper Level, Enter from Food Court)
Specialty coffees, teas and frappés.
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Open until 7 p.m. during the museum's extended hours.

Outdoor Kiosk and Cart
• Kiosk offers McDonald's quarter-pound hamburgers, Chicken McNuggets, French fries, and beverages.
• Carts offer Hot dogs, chips, pretzels, bottled beverages, and ice cream.
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open until 7 p.m. during the museum's extended hours.
Opens seasonally and weather permitting.

*Subject to early closure for non-public museum events.

Group dining packages »