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Explore Our Outdoor Campus

Learn about what you can experience outdoors at MVM this summer here.

Reserve Your Tour

Tours are offered at 11am and 2pm. Sign up here.

Read our statement on racial injustice, and access resources from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Wortman Webcam

See what’s going on on the Museum’s front lawn and out in Lagoon Pond.