International Spy Museum Admission
Washington DC, USA
International Spy Museum Admission
Washington DC, USA
- 2 hours (approx.)
- Offered in: English
Overview
Learn the story of spies, intelligence operations, and deceptions that changed the course of history with an admission ticket to Washington DC’s International Spy Museum. See one of the largest collections of international espionage artifacts ever placed on public display with gadgets, weapons, bugs, cameras, vehicles, and technologies. Travel back in time to learn about past spies and unlikely undercover agents. Adopt a cover identity and self-test spy skills along the way.
- Admission ticket to Washington DC's International Spy Museum
- See gadgets, weapons, bugs, cameras, vehicles, and technologies used for espionage
- Adopt a cover identity and test your spy skills throughout the museum
- Travel back in time to learn about past spies and unlikely undercover agents
What's Included
Meeting and Pickup
What To Expect
Additional Info
Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Reviews
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So much fun for the whole family! Everyone loved it - especially our teens (and my husband)! Get tickets early.
My 20 year old son and myself loved it. My husband was not a fan. He thought it was going to be more interactive, with spy’s amongst us. You could spend all day reading and still not see everything. Very informative.
What an amazingly thorough and fascinating museum. I can't wait to go back! Thank you Viator for making my entry super easy!
It is an incredible experience for all ages. You do have a mission in there, having fun and discovering a new world of experiences!!!
It was so interesting and fun for all of us. From 10 to 67 years old. I would highly recommend the Spy Museum. It far exceeded our high expectations.
Wonderful. I spent 3 hour there and need to return. Could not see everything in just 3 hours. World needs to team up together to catch Mafia and drug cartels to start stopping crime and evil.
If you like spy movies, novels and are into historical facts, this is the place for you. It is much less about TV and movie spies and much more about real life espionage from the time of Queen Elizabeth I (maybe before) to the present. You will also be assigned a mission. Have fun. I know I did.
Great for kids. Lots of activities and reading. Kids said that when you are a spy, you cannot show you are afraid of anything.
Great tour with a child. My granddaughter age 10 and I visited this museum in March 2018. We had a wonderful time, held her interest the entire time we were there.
What a fantastic wealth of information! My 21 year old daughter, our friends and I all had a great time here. You learn SO MUCH about the spy business and plenty of hands on exhibits to have fun with. Its a MUST DO in D.C.!
Very good place for your kids and maybe you to spend 2-3 hours. Lot of interactive exhibitions and interesting materials. The only negative is cost - adult with 2 kids under 12 is 49 from Viator and 55 at the door.
My daughter, who is 17, and I had a great time at the spy museum. We listened to the headphones, climbed thru the tunnel as quiet as possible and had a great time doing it. It was fun to watch her jump as the shark swam at her. Great time.
A lil small and confusing lay out. Excited to see the bigger museum in 2018. Items in Shop are interesting.
Maybe the rain forced everyone inside, but this was a super 3 hours for many folks. Adults and the kids were engrossed in the interactive portions of many of the exhibits. Leave plenty of time to play.
My 11 grandson lived it!!! Very crowded but it was the highlight for him
International Spy Museum is a must see attraction in Washington DC, was what our Hop on Hop off tour guide told us. So we decided to visit even though it has general admission fee of 21.95 per person. when i tried to book on line, it showed fully booked for that day. I booked it through Viator helpline and got tickets for same day with discount for 19.5. Our overall experience of the exhibits and activities undertaken at Spy museum was nowhere close to satisfactory even. The reception asked to shom my voucher which i could not open since there was no WiFi there and my mobile did not have net connectivity, It is frustrating to see no wifi provided in today's times which is available in all other museums with free entry.
initial briefing and conduct with the groups by the museum staff was extremely casual and we were sort of left to our own self guided tour. they asked us to assume some spy identity but thereafter nothing much happened except at the exit when they asked you some questions and based on the answers given you were either allowed to exit or asked to give up.
one whole floor is devoted to James Bond, which is a waste of time, and neither entertaining nor educative.
Food /drinks are not allowed to be taken with you and most visitors who carry foodstuff are not provided with any space inside where one can eat own food with dignity. we had to go out and eat on the pavement.
when we asked what about the activities as spy tasks? they said you can undertake those by paying 15 each for those activities, and they have four such activities. They appeared neither interested in providing further information about the additional paid activities nor they seemed to care if we would take those or just leave.
I keep feeling why are they charging 21.5 for this museum? in Washington dc there are so many world class museums which are free, and yet we did not have time to visit all of them. I regret i wasted my money and time visiting International Spy museum. I could have visited any other museum on National Mall and felt better.
Final verdict: DONT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY BY VISITING INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM.
We got there about an hour and half before closing. Definitely need more time to see it right. at least a couple of hours. Very cool stuff
My husband and I took our boys, ages 10 and 7, to see this attraction, and I would rate it as fine, but it was not spectacular. We went on a Saturday -- our only opportunity during our trip, so another day might have been better -- and it was very crowded. One good thing about Viator: I had printed off the tickets but forgotten them in the hotel room, but the museum was able to redeem them via my phone AND we were able to skip that line. When we entered the museum, after getting the tix, there was a long line to the one elevator that takes you to the first stop in the tour. We waited approximately 25 minutes in that line. The first two stops were somewhat interesting and somewhat guided, and you got the sense that the rest of the tour would be similarly guided, but not so. What followed was a series of rooms where we constantly had to make sure we didn't lose our kids full of spy stuff. The kids enjoyed it somewhat, but overall the visit turned out to be too much at one time and yet not enough. I don't mean to sound negative, because it was interesting, but I would recommend visiting the museum at a nonbusy time when you have time to really look at the items without the masses of people around.
An amazing place for kids over 7years as well as adults. The history of espionage is well captured and displayed. the section devoted to James Bond and its exhibits are a treat to all Bond fans
I wish I had purchased this tour directly at the museum instead of through Viator. When I purchased the tickets I was not aware that there were additional options that could be purchased for Spy Experiences - and I had in fact only purchased the general admission tickets. So when we arrived at the spy museum at 11 am we found out about these additional activities that my kids REALLY wanted to do and we were told we would need to purchase these Spy Experiences separately which was more money than buying the combo ticket directly from the International Spy Museum would have been and also we would have needed to pre-book a time slot and the only times available were for much later in the day when we had other activities planned. So while my kids thought the museum was ok, they really wanted to have the Spy Experience that we were unable do when we wanted because we had not booked in advance with the right activities. It would have been really nice if Viator had advised us of these facts.
Took my grandkids to Washington DC for graduation present. We really loved it there. We discovered we can never be a spy.
We brought a 13 year old and a 9 year old. They had a blast. They were running ahead to check out all the displays. There's interactive stuff too that was fun for them. It wasn't too crowded so we could take out time. And the gift shop is GREAT!
Had a wonderful time. Friends from California had not been to either museum before and their 16 year old daughter loved it all.
Very interesting content in this museum. Some activities are nonsense, to get the families in, but you are not required to participate. Well worth a visit.
Overall this was a fun museum, but due to the size of the crowd, it was hard to fully enjoy the experience. I see that they are moving to a much larger location. No doubt that will be a positive move!
Very entertaining and informative. Well priced for the experience.
I purchased tickets as a birthday gift for my fiance. He loves James Bond, and was so excited to see the amazing exhibit. He was also amazing at how many amazing spy gear the museum had and learning how it was/is used.
My 12 year old son really enjoyed the hands on displays and interactive programs. It was very interesting to learn of entertainers who were also spies.
Excellent for kids. Unfortunately the experience was not as good as it could have been due to the hoards of people inside on the day we visited, meaning we couldn't get near the interactive machines and therefore couldn't get the full experience. Would maybe be better if the museum allocated time slots and monitored the amount of people at any one time to allow everyone the full experience.
While the Museum had some interesting historical details, which may appeal to adults, it mainly had items, visuals, activities which would be best for children to enjoy. The price seems a little high individually, unless you're extremely interested in spy artifacts, but decent if purchasing the combo.
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