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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    Memorial District of Columbia

Operating Hours & Seasons

The public may visit the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial 24 hours a day. Rangers are on duty to answer questions from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. daily and to provide interpretive programs every hour on the hour from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m.

Did You Know?

Room 2 Sculptures in FDR Memorial

Traditionally, from George Washington's time to FDR’s, inauguration day fell on March 4; this remained the case with few exceptions.  However, the date was changed by the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution to January 20 to reduce the post-election "lame duck" period; it took effect in 1937.