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guide to the 57th Inauguration
The Schedule Page 2 Getting around Pages 3-5 Museums Pages 6-9 Food trucks Page 10 The event map Page 11 Follow @washingtonpost on Twitter for updates throughout the day. Use the hashtag #imthere on Instagram and Twitter to share your reasons for going to the inauguration. Read stories from others at wapo.st/imthere. Save this guide for use offline by opening it in your phone’s PDF reader (iBooks, Evernote, etc.)
The schedule 4 a.m. • Metro opens
2 Schedule subject to change
6:30 a.m. • Public entry points open on parade route 11:30 a.m. • Inaugural Program begins Noon • Swearing in, inaugural address 2:30 p.m. • Parade begins 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Washington Post wants to know how you feel about the inauguration. Stop by our lobby at 1150 15th St. NW to submit text or video updates to the #imthere project. Children can write a letter to President Obama about what his goals should be for his second term.
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On the Metro •H ours: 4 a.m. to 2 a.m. Rush-hour service 4 a.m. to 9 p.m. •S top closures: Smithsonian, Archives and Mount Vernon Square. •Y ellow Line: Trains going north will end at Gallery Place-Chinatown. • Weekday peak fares until 9 p.m. • Metro garages: Normal parking fees. •M etrobus: Weekday rush-hour service in the morning; early rush-hour service in the afternoon. •M etroAccess will have the same hours. For more information, go to wmata.com/ inauguration or @MetroInaug on Twitter.
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By MARC train • Reserved trains on special schedules. • Round-trip tickets $25. • No regular MARC tickets will be accepted. • Operating inbound to Washington’s Union Station from 7:30 p.m. to 11 a.m. and 1:30 to 7 p.m., Penn and Brunswick lines. • Penn Line service will not operate north of Baltimore’s Penn Station. • Passengers can board MARC Trains at selected stops. For more information, go to mta.maryland.gov.
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By bicycle • No bikes, large coolers or containers allowed on Metrorail. • Capital Bikeshare corrals will be set up from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m Monday at 17th and K streets NW (Farragut Square), and 12th Street and Independence Avenue SW (USDA building). • A bike parking lot will be set up on 16th Street NW between I and K streets Monday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bring your own lock. For more information, go to capitalbikeshare.com.
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Visitors in town for Inauguration Day, take note: If you are looking for a place to warm up, grab coffee and, ahem, use the facilities, the museums on the Mall are a place to take refuge. The entrances on the Mall side of the museums will be closed, so please use alternate entrances. Opening early 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
•S mithsonian Castle 1000 Jefferson Drive SW 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
• Freer and Sackler Galleries 12th Street and Independence Avenue SW •A frican Art Museum 950 Independence Avenue SW
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• Hirshhorn Museum Independence Avenue and Seventh Street SW Regular Hours 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
• Air and Space Museum Seventh Street and Independence Avenue SW •A merican History Museum 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW • Natural History Museum 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
•N ational Gallery of Art – West Building only Seventh Street and Madison Drive NW
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• American Indian Museum • Renwick Gallery • National Gallery of Art – East Building
food options • Try the Air and Space, Natural History or American History museums, or the Smithsonian Castle. Some highlights • Th e American History Museum will host a broadcast of the swearing in at 11:30 a.m. in Flag Hall. Afterward, visit the “First Ladies” exhibition on the third floor; there, you’ll find two dozen gowns from women including
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Jacqueline Kennedy and Laura Bush, as well as one fairly recent addition: Michelle Obama’s edgy Jason Wu inaugural gown from 2009. • The National Portrait Gallery (Eight and F streets NW) will display Shepard Fairey’s iconic collaged portrait of President Obama and Chuck Close’s sprawling 2012 tapestries of the president’s visage on its second floor.
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• The inauguration committee wanted to make sure food trucks were permitted within the security perimeter so people could have easy access to meals during the parade along Pennsylvania Ave. The city has not designated specific locations yet, but the food trucks permitted for the parade route include the Fojol Bros.’s Benethiopia, Borinquen Lunch Box, Capital Chicken & Waffles, Caribbean Cafe, Carnivore BBQ, Cirque Cuisine, Crepe Amour, Crepes Parfait, Curbside Cupcakes, El Farolito, Franky Tyler BBQ, Goodies Frozen Custard, Pepe, Make My Cake, Fojol Bros.’s Merlindia, Sidewalk Sweetsations, Surfside, Sweetbites Mobile Cafe and the Big Cheese.
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GENE THORP, CRISTINA RIVERO, LAVANYA RAMANATHAN AND TIM CARMAN — THE WASHINGTON POST
