It may be day four of the most recent federal government shutdown, but that does not mean the District is closed.

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While places like the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center and Ford’s Theatre may not be open, Elliott Ferguson, the president and CEO of Destination D.C. , told WTOP there are a lot of spots still welcoming locals and tourists in their front doors.

“The new Milken Institute for Advancing the American Dream, which just opened. The Folger Shakespeare Library, which went through an extensive renovation, the National Museum of the Women of the Arts,” Fergu

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