Smithsonian American Art Museum
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4.8 (3,851)Spanning colonial painting to new media, centuries of American art surround a soaring, glass-canopied courtyard.
Description
Housed in Washington's historic Patent Office Building, the museum shares the glass-canopied Kogod Courtyard with the National Portrait Gallery. Its holdings rank among the world’s largest collections of American art, branching into folk art, sculpture, and photography. The institution also features specialized research facilities, including the Lunder Conservation Center and the Nam June Paik Archive, and houses the Renwick Gallery.