This tour is conducted by Friends of the Kennedy Center volunteers. Visitors should go to the Tour Desk on Motor Parking Lobby A, where tours leave approximately every 15 minutes and last about an hour. These tours follow the showing of an orientation film which begins in the Visitors' Orientation Theater, Room LM-139 in Madison Building. Groups of 10 people or more need reservations. Capitol South or Union Station .
Tours start at West Entrance doors.
Consists of a tour of art, architecture, and history, followed by tea, scones, and sandwiches in the Pilgrim Observation Gallery. Tours are by reservation only. No tours are given during August. There are only ten Congressional Tour tickets issued per office per week. Congressional offices are not guaranteed tickets .