Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is a museum in Washington, DC, part of the Washington DC guide. Cost: free.

Independence Ave SW at 7th St SW · Washington, DC

Why you should go…

Gordon Bunshaft designed the Hirshhorn as an open cylinder raised on four massive legs, opened in 1974 on the National Mall. Three floors of galleries show modern and contemporary art from a collection of more than 12,000 works, with the focus on the decades since World War II. The 1.3-acre sunken sculpture garden, home to Rodin's The Burghers of Calais, has been redesigned by Hiroshi Sugimoto and is scheduled to reopen on October 31, 2026.

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