Hi folks!
Well, it's here!
DC Flyertalk Do Museum Tour Schedule
Saturday
11:00 AM Private Group Tour of the
American Art Museum at The Reynolds Center (the National Portrait Gallery is in the same complex). (for those not going on the Hillsdale tour).
12:45 PM Lunch at the Mitsitam Café inside the Museum of the American Indian
2:00 PM Private Group Tour of the
National Museum of the American Indian
Sunday
2:00 PM Private Group Tour of National
Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (In Chantilly, Virginia near IAD airport)
More Information:
Map of Museums:
http://www.si.edu/visit/infocenter/mallmap.htm
Smithsonian Information: 202-633-1000
American Art Museum at the Reynolds Center
http://americanart.si.edu/visit/about/
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery
8th and F Streets, NW
Washington, D.C.
National Museum of the American Indian
http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?s...itor&second=dc
Located on the National Mall at 4th St. and Independence Ave. SW
Mitsitam Café inside the Museum of the American Indian
* At this time we do not have any group reservation set up for Lunch, so for now we will be on our own, although obviously we can informally arrange ourselves in groups to dine there.
* If there are 20+ confirmed persons signed up for Lunch we have the option of negotiating a group Lunch. I have not discussed pricing of this and will not do so unless it looks pretty definite that we have at least 20 persons that would like to do this.
* What is the Café like?
“Mitsitam” means “Let’s eat!” in the Native language of the Delaware and Piscataway peoples. The museum’s Mitsitam Native Foods Café enhances the museum experience by providing visitors the opportunity to enjoy the indigenous cuisines of the Americas and to explore the history of Native foods. The Café features Native foods found throughout the Western Hemisphere, including the Northern Woodlands, South America, the Northwest Coast, Meso America and the Great Plains. Each of the five food stations depict regional lifeways related to cooking techniques, ingredients, and flavors found in both traditional and contemporary dishes. Selections include authentic Native foods such as traditional fry bread and corn totopos as well as contemporary items with a Native American twist—think buffalo burgers!
Please sign up for these tours ASAP, the earlier we let them know our count the better. If we don't have firm numbers by three weeks before, it's possible we'll have to limit the group size, don't want anyone to be shut out.