National Geographic Reviews

The Egypt's Queen Exhibition will be hold until September. It's not big but collections and events are quite good. You can spend around 1.5hrs to 2 hrs here and enjoy wonderful Ancient Egyptian history.

Wow the best place ever! The 3D makes this museum and unforgettable experience

Nice place but little disappointed . They should have more things for show and many pics for customers ... so far so good

Great place. $15 to get into. Tour is good 2 hours. Plenty of parking. Book store is cool.

While the museum is put together well, the exhibits are quite underwhelming. I would recommend spending your time and money elsewhere.

Small museum with rotating exhibits. Make sure to check what is on display before going over to ensure it will be interesting to you. There is also an entry fee (check the website for current cost). It wouldn't be my first museum recommendation for DC, but worth a visit if you have an hour to spend in the area.

Truly disappointing for the amount of money they charged. We paid $45 for 3 adults and 1 child, and it was not worth the money. This place should be $5 max per person. The shark exhibit was pretty cool, but what they considered a "second exhibit", was nothing more than a decorated hallway to the bathroom. Don't waste your money, there are plenty of other places that are cheaper and better for families. This place needs to seriously reconsider their pricing structure.

Always great exhibits. Fascinating NGS store. I've bought many gifts there for family and friends.

Amazing exhibit about the Queens of Egypt. Highly recommend!

We visited the Queens of Egypt exhibit! It was very educational, informative and well presented! Definitely recommended for kids 1st grade and above!!

Great space with amazing programming including virtual reality exhibits. Parking
in that area is a nightmare if you don't have a ticket to use their parking garage, so bear that in mind. They also organize amazing trips but they're very pricey.

Really cool exhibits are displayed here. The Photo Ark by Joel Sartore is pretty amazing.

Amazing exhibits. The interactive Tomb of Christ exhibit was informative, beautiful, and great for all ages.

The free stuff seemed limited. It was really cool, but also extremely limited. They had other sections where you needed to pay to get in, but we didn't do that because it was expensive.

Cool building, great exhibit on the Queens of Egypt.

Great place for family, groups, anyone really! Accurate information, relevant themes, great video and audio. Gift shop was really nice. I bought several Christmas gifts here. This week, themes were Titanic and Tomb of Christ, Holy Sepulchre, geographical location and facts from then and now

$52 for my wife and our two kids for two small exhibits was lame. But I love national geographic.

Cool exhibits but felt there should have been more for the entrance fee.

Great museum! Can go through it in about an 1.5 to 2 hours. The Tomb Exhibit was very good and extremely educational. I thoroughly enjoyed the Titanic Exhibit because I actually have was able to see things that I had never seen or read about before.

Clean. Educated employees. Beautiful, informative, multi-media exhibits.

Reviews for this museum are mixed, and rightfully so, as it totally depends on the exhibits that are there. Right now, the Tomb of Christ exhibit is there and it's fantastic - worth the $15 fee (less, if you are a child, student, senior, or military). if you can go to one of the early showings, you won't have to wait in line for the final piece of this exhibit, which is a virtual reality tour of the tomb (there are 7 or 8 identical stations for this, but when there are 30 people on each tour, the line at the stations can build up quickly). But even if you skip this piece, it's still very cool. All that said, there is one room where you wear 3D glass and remain standing. There is bench seating int he back for perhaps 6 people total (and your view would be blocked by people standing in front of you). Anyway, the show in that room really challenges your balance and there are no handrails.

Really enjoyed the JANE GOODALL Exhibit. Amazing life story.

This place is CLOSED. Save yourself the trip. They are doing so remodeling. Nothing much to see here! So sad

Was originally super excited but ended up being majorly disappointed. It was $15 for 2 small exhibits (mainly photos and some explorer clothing examples) that was catered for kids. National geographic could've created a really cool museum but unfortunately this was not worth it at all.

Awesome place I had ever seen in my life. I like this place and wish to come again. There are lots of activity to do. A perfect place to visit with family.

Just awe inspiring!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!! HOD BLESS YOU ALL

Good exposition, but it's not a tier 1 museum in Washington

Save your money. It was well done but only took an hr. Very small not much to do.

Enjoyed the Tomb of Christ and Titanic exhibits. The staff was courteous and knowledgeable. Highly recommend.

OMG. fell in love with this museum. So many different events that are all amazing and mind blowing.

All the beautiful global photography we expected was replaced by an Egyptian exhibit. Good exhibit but so is the one at the Museum of Natural History.

This was disappointing. There was a nice display of Egyptian artifacts, but that was it. Surely the National Geographic Society could come with a permanent exhibit of their trips and adventures and photos. There were only a few meager displays in an adjacent building but none of their photographs. Not what I was expecting or hoping for.

The tomb of Christ exhibit was well done. The VR tour of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was awesome.

Love this museum! Great exhibits. Really well done.

Exhibit was great
The museum was clean
A handful of Interactive programs such as 3D program, an ancient Egyptian game etc
Cons
Some of the pieces had no lights so it was hard to read and see the figures
The most important thing to note is that it's one floor.

The Tomb of Christ is extrodinary to experience, with the virtual and 3D imaging you are transported into the Church of th Holy Seplechre.

The photos were cool but we did really expect it to be bigger

How cheap and small-minded some people are to complain about a mere $15 museum entry fee. When these very same people will spend much more on forgettable movies, or fast food.

Please take the unwarranted complaints and 1 star reviews with a grain of salt.

This is a real museum. National Geographic exhibits are curated with thought, care and love by true professionals.

What floor it's on doesn't matter. Square footage doesn't matter either. The current exhibit, The Greeks is breathtaking. What matters is that our friends to the North (Canadians) collaborated with friends to the East (Greeks) and now we're lucky enough to have this special exhibit in Washington.

See it before it closes in early October '16. The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great is an astonishing exhibit in both scope and depth.

From The Huffington Post:

Ancient objects, both original and copies, from 22 different Greek museums, including the National Archaeological Museum, the Monetary Museum, the Epigraphic Museum, the Acropolis Museum and the Archaeological Museums of Thessaloniki and Heraklion, arrived in Montreal under tight security from the other side of the Atlantic. Spanning five millenia covering nine historic periods, from the prehistoric to the late Hellenistic, the spectacle s objective is to familiarize the visitor with ancient Greek civilization.

Church of Holy Sepulchre...Titanic exhibits... excellent!

It was cool for the things that you could see. Expensive and only 3 exhibits. Most of the things are geared towards little kids and still not really child friendly. Just disappointing.

Amazing museum is dc that is a must see. The exhibits change every couple months so there is always a reason to go back. Great place to find unique topics that you never knew you wanted to learn about.

Great museum and one of the few thst opens its doors after hours depending on the event.

We went on family day. The ticket price was $5 a person which is great for all the free activities that was presented on that day. Kids had a blast. It was well organized day by the museum .

Went for the first and was lucky to catch their neap 3D exhibit Tomb of Christ and was blown away... Its definite a must for everyone

Queens of Egypt was a fascinating exhibit. Learn history and enjoy it!

Events are a little pricey, but a must-see place in Washington, DC.

Gorgeous, convenient venue of a dutifully prepared exhibit. Delivered an amazing wealth of information succinctly and catering to all ages. Well worth the small admission fee.

This place is awesome , they got this VR experience which you can visit The Tomb of Jesus Christ and is out this world , the pictures and art is really gorgeous(Day and Night collection) ...great place to visit ...

3 Stars for a couple of reasons. One, they force you to see both exhibits, even if you're only interested in one of the other. Started with the interactive Tomb of Christ exhibit (kind of cool, 3D, I just wasn't interested.) And the Titanic exhibit, which was all right, but not worth the $15 entrance fee IMO.
I wouldn't go back.

Absolutely amazing. We went during the Queens of Egypt exhibit and it was beyond incredible. The way everything was displayed along with the information was amazing.
There were also part that were hands on/interactive.
Wasn t too small nor too big. It was a great walk through history.
There was also a little 3D area which was pretty cool as well.

I was excited to visit this museum but with people like me who doesnt have a lot in a pocket couldn't pay for a ticket thereby, cannot have my eyes feast at their exhibition. So, i just sat down inside.

Queens of Egypt is great.Lotts of fascinating insight to this civilization

I've enjoyed several visits to National Geographic. There is always something interesting to see.

A small museum. Had an interesting exhibit on Queens of ancient Egypt. Good interactive displays for children.

The actual visit of the permanent site artifacts is free. Very limited
The exhibition for Queen of Egypt - there is a fee.

They offer Military discount.

The staff were very nice and restroom is available. Parking was not too hard to find near the museum.

Great manageable exhibits. You get to see two for the price of one ticket :-)