DAR Museum

The DAR Museum is quite often referred to as 'the best kept secret in Washington', but they want to change that! The museum features collections that were made or used before the Industrial Revolution; many pieces have been given to the museum from DAR members.

There are 31 period rooms located in the museum along with 2 galleries. There are over 30,000 decorative and fine objects on show at the museum from the 18th and 19th Centuries. These items include furniture, ceramics and silver.

The museum offers free walk-in tours for all visitors along with free exhibitions held throughout the year along with many interesting programs, workshops and special tours. Each of the period rooms at the museum have been sponsored by a different state organization. These rooms include The New Jersey Room which is a seventeenth-century council chamber, the rooms range in date and include a Victorian Parlor, a Tavern, Study and an attic that is filled with toys and dolls from New Hampshire.

Visitors are welcome to purchase adaptations and reproductions of objects from the Museum shop, each piece has been inspired by an object in the collection. Books and gift items are also available for sale. All proceeds of sales at the museum shop help support DAR museum.