Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

See modern and contemporary art in a drum-shaped Smithsonian museum on the National Mall, with a sunken sculpture garden beside it.

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

About Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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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