Except that funding has finally run out.

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Tourists hoping to see the Star-Spangled Banner, the Hope Diamond and Harriet Tubman’s shawl will find locked doors at all 17 of the District’s Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo Wednesday. The National Gallery — both the East and West buildings as well as the popular skating rink in the sculpture gardens — will follow suit Thursday.

They’ll join the museums and National Park Service-run sites across the region — the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument, the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, the DEA Museum — that have been shuttered since Dec. 22 due to a lack of government funding.

What makes this especially confusing for visitors is that while Washington is full of government-funded cultural attractions, it’s not always clear how a shutdown impacts their individual operations. The National Archives closed when the shutdown began on Dec. 22, for instance. But the Library of Congress and the U.S. Botanic Garden — and the Capitol Visitor Center and Capitol Building, ironically — are operating as normal, since they were funded by the 2019 Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill. The Kennedy Center and Ford’s Theatre operate in a gray area: Neither uses federal funds for performances, so those will go on as scheduled, but the Kennedy Center’s hours are slashed, because the government pays for essential services, such as cleaning and security, and the National Park Service-run museum at Ford’s Theatre is closed.

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And to further add to the confusion: Smithsonian-sponsored events scheduled to take place at non-museum sites — such as a free listening party for the new Smithsonian Folkways album “The Social Power of Music” at Songbyrd Music House in Adams Morgan on Wednesday — will go on as planned.

Bars and restaurants are doing their part to entertain and feed furloughed workers. José Andrés’s ThinkFoodGroup restaurants offer different free sandwiches every day between 2 and 5 p.m., including chicken shawarma at Zaytinya and pulled pork at America Eats Tavern, for anyone with a government ID. Also available to those carrying around their work badge: Capitol Lounge has a menu of $5 cocktails with such names as “Nothing Really Mattis”; Satellite Room is offering $2 slices of pizza; and City Tap House extended happy hour until 10 p.m. nightly.

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Tourists are locked out of the Smithsonian, but renovation of galleries in the National Air and Space Museum, including the World War I and World War II exhibits, will continue behind closed doors, says Smithsonian spokeswoman Linda St. Thomas.