Beneath the Dupont Circle roundabout, long-abandoned trolley tunnels from the 1940s have been slowly converted into an underground arts space. The Dupont Underground hosts temporary art installations, film screenings, performances, and events in the vaulted concrete passages that once carried streetcars across the city.
The space is not open continuously — it operates during specific programmes and events. Check the calendar before visiting. When it is open, the atmosphere is genuinely unusual: raw concrete, curved ceilings, fluorescent light, and art that the scale and strangeness of the space seems to encourage. It is the kind of venue that exists in every city's underground history and only rarely gets brought back to life.