New Museum Hours!

Effective 1/2/09 the museum will be open from 12-4PM Wednesday through Sunday.

Tours are on the hour with the first tour at 12PM and the last tour at 3PM.

A Letter from the Executive Director

Women's History Walking Tour

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Produced in conjunction with TailoredTours.com and the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum, this self-guided tour highlights DC sites significant to the women's suffrage movement.

The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, on Capitol Hill, explores the evolving role of women and their contributions to society through the continuing, and often untold, story of women's pursuit for equality.

The museum is the headquarters of the historic National Woman's Party and was the Washington home of its founder and Equal Rights Amendment author Alice Paul.

Sewall-Belmont, named in the first Save America's Treasures legislation, is the only museum in the nation's capital dedicated to preserving and showcasing a crucial piece of our history—the fight for the American woman's right to vote. This struggle is documented through one of the most significant collections in the country focused on the suffrage and equal rights movements. 

Alice Paul, founder of the National Woman's Party, dedicated her life to securing equal rights for women. The political strategies and techniques of Alice Paul and the NWP became the blueprint for civil rights organizations during the twentieth century. Paul is known internationally as a humanitarian; she was a great revolutionary and pioneer in the fight for women's equal rights.

The Museum, a National Historic Landmark, offers monthly educational programming and is open for public tours five days a week. The archive is open to students and researchers to help preserve the legacy of the National Woman's Party and its founder Alice Paul.

Museum Highlights

	NWP Digital Collection The National Woman's Party Digital Collection offers visitors a first-hand look at the extraordinary documentation of the suffrage and equal rights movements. The depth and diversity of the collection demonstrates how the records, artifacts, and images of the past influence and help to form the ideas of the present.
	Educational Programs The suffrage movement is, no doubt, an important mark in the country's pursuit for equality for all people. The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum strives to bring to all ages educational programming that positions leadership and empowerment within the story of the longest civil rights movement in the country—women's enfranchisement and equality.