Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

I highly recommend making sure your phone and/or cameras are charged! You're gonna want to take LOTS of pictures. The IMAX and Planetarium shows sell out quickly, so you should buy your tickets early. You can only bring bottled water into the museum. Free WI-FI, choose SI-VISITOR and connect.

By far one of the best museums in the country.

I loved it, spouse and one of the kids got bored quick and left early. This may be one of those love it or hate it type deals. If you love it, this could easily take a whole day to see everything.

Favorites were the Skylab walkthrough, the early days of commercial aviation and the monn rocks.

My all time favorite museum in DC. My dad's a pilot and anytime we'd visit here as kids he wouldn't let us leave until we could explain the four principles of flight and how a jet engine works. I also discovered freeze dried ice cream here (or, space ice cream). SO GOOD.

I didn't really think of myself as the kind of guy who would love the Air & Space Museum before I visited, but I have to admit that I totally loved it. The museum has such a cool collection of aircraft and spacecraft, and they exhibit the material in such a way that it's appealing to all age groups and levels of technical understanding. My favorite parts included seeing Apollo 11's command module and the museum's assortment of famous planes, such as the Wright Brothers' working model and Amelia Earhardt's plane.

I have some great memories going here as a kid with my dad. There are so many fascinating aircraft that you can see up close and I took a lot of pictures of them on my Fischer Price camera. The progression of technology in air and space travel is amazing to see here, no matter how old you are.

So much fun! The open layout is nice; it made it feel less crowded than some of the other museums. Really great displays on American wars, the Wright brothers, the moon landing, etc.!

It really is the best of the Smithsonian museums. So many interesting exhibits, some unapologetically sciency! Plus, there is a McDonalds inside...a really expensive one, but still better priced than any of the other food courts in the Mall museums.

My husband, who is a pilot, and I visited a few air museums in the past all over the world and truthfully this particular one did not leave a grand impression on us. It caters definitely more to a younger crowd, being family friendly. Its a lovely place to visit if you have some time, but don't bother if you have an intense interest in aviation because besides the Wright's plane there isn't much to see there.