museums - Heyday DC https://heydaydc.com/tag/museums/ The strange but true life and times of Washington, DC Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:43:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 64826792 This Is Your History … on Drugs: DEA Museum https://heydaydc.com/2014/05/history-drugs-dea-museum/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=history-drugs-dea-museum https://heydaydc.com/2014/05/history-drugs-dea-museum/#respond Tue, 20 May 2014 16:04:40 +0000 http://heydaydc.com/?p=769 “By 1900, when 1 in 200 Americans was addicted, the typical addict was a white, middle-class female hooked through medical treatment. But there was also a rapidly growing new group Continue Reading →

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]]> https://heydaydc.com/2014/05/history-drugs-dea-museum/feed/ 0 769 T. Rex Finds New Home in DC – Rent-Free! https://heydaydc.com/2014/04/t-rex-dc-smithsonian/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=t-rex-dc-smithsonian https://heydaydc.com/2014/04/t-rex-dc-smithsonian/#respond Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:24:26 +0000 http://heydaydc.com/?p=526 You know that colossal T. rex skeleton that towers over you as you enter the dinosaur hall in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History? It’s a fake – but Continue Reading →

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]]> https://heydaydc.com/2014/04/t-rex-dc-smithsonian/feed/ 0 526 The Street of the Righteous Gentile https://heydaydc.com/2014/03/raoul-wallenberg/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=raoul-wallenberg https://heydaydc.com/2014/03/raoul-wallenberg/#respond Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:04:27 +0000 http://heydaydc.com/?p=51 Renamed by an Act of Congress in 1985, Raoul Wallenberg Place SW is the stretch of 15th Street SW on which the Holocaust Museum is located. While serving as Sweden’s Continue Reading →

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