DC Student Visits

Exhibitions

The National Archives Museum in Washington, DC, is open daily with limited capacity. Learn more on the National Archives Museum page.

• Check out our gallery packs for students to practice observation, document analysis, and critical thinking while visiting each of our permanent museum exhibits. Pick them up in our Boeing Learning Center. A group chaperone must provide a driver’s license. (See our blog or contact us for more information.)
• View the original Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights.
• Visit the Public Vaults, showcasing the breadth and variety of the holdings of the National Archives, organized thematically around the Preamble of the Constitution.
• See a temporary exhibit in our Lawrence F. O'Brien gallery.

The ReSource Room in the Boeing Learning Center

We are currently offering distance learning programs only due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.

Drop in during your museum visit to participate in hands-on activities and programs based on documents, images, maps, posters and more.

We're open Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Seasonal hours may vary. Reservations are not required. For school groups, we ask that you rotate through in small groups of 10 students at a time, with at least one chaperone per group.

Check for special activities and programs on our events calendar.

The Classroom in the Boeing Learning Center

We are currently offering distance learning programs only due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.

Bring your students to participate in one of our document-based learning lab programs. Participants will analyze historical documents and make connections between America's founding documents and their own lives.