International Spy Museum, Washington, D.C.

Spy Museum (Washington, D.C.)
800 F Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20004 *202.393.7798* spymuseum.org. Located right between the National Portrait Gallery and the FBI Building, is located the museum of spies …. where one can go and learn of the cunning and glamour of spies. Building is host to the Spy City Cafe – open for breakfast and lunch, as well as a pretty cool shop and museum store – selling invisible inks, disguise kits, miniature cameras, clandestine recording devices, ciphers, books, CDs, and collectibles. You start out in a florescent elevator that leads you to a chamber with a guard who tells you to collect your alternate identity and to choose the mission – as you go through halls and chambers where you will be taught the history of spies, famous spies, the tools, the techniques, the skills, the disguises, the arts. You will learn how to place bugs. You will learn how to make a microdot. You will learn how to pick locks. You will learn how to crawl silently through the airducts. You will learn how to listen and eavesdrop. One of the largest collections of international espionage artifacts and weapons. Rating: 4 stars out of 5. Visited 1/8/2007.