Smithsonian American Art Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum is a museum in Washington, DC, part of the Washington DC guide. Cost: free.

8th and G Streets NW · Washington, DC

Why you should go…

The Smithsonian American Art Museum presents art made in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present, with more than 7,000 artists represented. In the Luce Foundation Center you browse more than 3,300 objects in glass cases, and at the Lunder Conservation Center you watch conservators at work through floor-to-ceiling glass. The museum shares the Old Patent Office Building and its glass-roofed Kogod Courtyard with the National Portrait Gallery.

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