Smithsonian American Art Museum

Browse American art from the colonial era to today, watch conservators at work, and wander thousands of objects in open storage.

8th and G Streets NW · Washington, DC

About Smithsonian American Art Museum

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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