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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: Design history New York City Museum Mile: 1897 [67] Freer Gallery of Art (affiliated with the Sackler Gallery) Asian art: Washington, D.C. National Mall 1923 [65] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Contemporary and modern art: Washington, D.C. National Mall 1974 [68] National Air and Space Museum
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: Design history New York City Museum Mile: 1897 [11] Freer Gallery of Art (affiliated with the Sackler Gallery) Asian art: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1923 [9] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Contemporary and modern art: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1974 [12] National Air and Space Museum
The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress.
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. DC-141, "Smithsonian Institution Building, 1000 Jefferson Drive, between Ninth & Twelfth Stre, Washington, District of Columbia, DC", 128 photos, 4 color transparencies, 27 measured drawings, 7 data pages, 11 photo caption pages
The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), colloquially known as the Blacksonian, is a Smithsonian Institution museum located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in the United States. [4] It was established in 2003 and opened its permanent home in 2016 with a ceremony led by President Barack Obama.
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States.Founded in 1962 and opened in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution.Its collections focus on images of American artists, politicians, scientists, inventors, activists, and performers who have contributed to the nation's history, development, and culture.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM; formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution.Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art made in the United States from the colonial period to the present.
The Arts and Industries Building is the second oldest (after The Castle) of the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Initially named the National Museum, it was built to provide the Smithsonian with its first proper facility for public display of its growing collections. [3]