Unique museums for kids within an hour of DC/va.

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Anonymous wrote:The Postal Museum and the Building Museum in DC are both great for kids.
There's a childrens museum in National Harbor that's OK. Along the lines of Port Discovery in Baltimore, but not as big.
College Park Aviation Museum is super fun.
Goddard Space Flight Center also has a museum - it's small, definitely not a whole day event, but you could combine the College Park museum and Goddard.

We went here over the summer and I was surprised by how interesting it was. Not crowded at all either. And you can get lunch at Union Station afterwards.

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National Geographic is neat for older kids.

Dinosaur Land is super random and kitchy... but my little kids thought it was a riot.

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There's a model train museum in Frederick near old town. If they like looking at trains, this is fun and it's cheap too. I think they dress it up for the holiday season too.

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KID Museum in Bethesda. Kid-museum.org

Fantastic place, really let's kids be creative and learn new skills.

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My kids love this one. It's in Winchester, VA.

http://discoverymuseum.net/

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We love the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons.

https://www.calvertmarinemuseum.com/

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There is no children's museum at national harbor , it closed over a year ago.

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I’m surprised that B&O Railroad museum in Baltimore was not mentioned yet. As far as trains go this is THE museum to visit.
http://www.borail.org