THE PATH TO NO. 19

Workhouse Arts Center, 9518 Workhouse Way, Lorton, Va.; (703) 584-2900, www.workhousearts.org. Galleries and the visitor center are open 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. A small museum devotes part of its space to suffragist history and the rest of the history of Lorton’s penal system. It is open noon-3 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and noon-4 p.m. Sundays. The center is building a Lucy Burns Museum not only to honor the suffragist who was jailed and brutalized here, but also to highlight the work that led to the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.

National Museum of American History, 1400 Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington,

D.C.; (202) 633-1000, www .americanhistory.si.edu. “The Nation We Build Together” exhibit devotes some space to voting, including suffragist history. Among the artifacts is a suffrage wagon used at rallies and speeches between the 1870s and 1920. Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument House, 144 Constitution Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C.; (202) 543-2240, www.nps.gov /bepa. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesdays-Sundays; guided tours at 9:30 and 11 a.m. and 2 and 3:30 p.m.

This is the home of the National Woman’s Party, founded in 1916 by Alice Paul, the godmother of the push for the 19th Amendment.

On the hourlong tours you’ll see exhibits that tell the story of the National Woman’s Party, especially focusing on the fight for passage of the amendment. You’ll see some of the banners women carried as they picketed the White House, although not necessarily the most controversial ones, which counter-protesters destroyed. You’ll also see Susan B. Anthony’s desk, given to Paul after the death of the early women’s suffrage crusader. Paul is said to have used it as part of her workspace and for inspiration.