Dumbarton Oaks, once the home of Robert and Mildred Bliss, is a historic estate turned research library and museum in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. It is open to researchers who are welcome to study its documents, images, objects, and books. It is also open to the public as a museum and has world class art collections. Visitors can expect to see permanent Byzantine, textile, and pre-Columbian galleries, a Renaissance-inspired Music Room, a gallery for temporary exhibitions, and a rare book gallery and reading room. Dumbarton Oaks also hosts lectures and concerts in the estate’s Music Room.
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1703 32nd Street NW, Washington, DC, Phone: 202-339-6401
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