More cool stuff to do in the Capitol.
Did you know that Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown, owned now and maintained by the Trustees of Harvard, runs a research library and hosts free lectures all the time?
The 'Music Room" is a glorious space with a painted beamed ceiling that rivals anything in a European palace. It has a carved marble mantle that comes from an actual French Chateau. It also has a brilliant Byzantine collection of religious art masterpieces.
Dumbarton Oaks hosted the precursor talks that led to the formation of the United Nations. http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Dumbarton+Oaks+Conference
You, ordinary Joe citizen, can sit in the same room that Winston Churcill did and visit this place and hear a lecture. Here's an interesting one coming up:
"The Art of Monasticism; Aesthetic Manifestations of the Angelic Life in Late Antique Upper Egypt." by Elizabeth Bolman of Temple University. Thursday, April 23, 5:30pm
for reservations and more info: Byzantine@doaks.org (202-339-6940)
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