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The International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., is an independent nonprofit history museum devoted to espionage and intelligence. Conceived in 1996 by Korean War code-breaker Milton Maltz, it opened in 2002 in Penn Quarter and moved in 2019 to a purpose-built home at L’Enfant Plaza. Known for the largest public display of international espionage artifacts, it holds more than 7,000 objects and traces spying from the ancient world through the Cold War to the present. Its collections, interactive exhibits, and public programs connect intelligence history with politics, war, statecraft, and even popular culture, making it a distinctive specialty museum in the capital.
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Washington, District of Columbia · United States
