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The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is a historic 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 famous Americans. Along with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the museum is housed in the historic Old Patent Office Building .
National Portrait Gallery. / 51.5094; -0.1281. The National Portrait Gallery ( NPG) is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. When it opened in 1856, it was arguably the first national public gallery in the world that was dedicated to portraits.
The museum and the National Portrait Gallery reopened their combined building, renamed as the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, on July 1, 2006. [45] The Smithsonian American Art Museum's main building is shared with the National Portrait Gallery, as seen from G Street NW in 2011
July 12, 2024 at 11:22 AM. WASHINGTON - The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery welcomes a new exhibition in honor of James Baldwin. "This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and ...
January 25, 2023 at 3:52 PM. The National Portrait Gallery will reopen later this year with an exhibition of previously unseen photographs by Sir Paul McCartney from his early days in The Beatles ...
July 30, 2024 at 4:01 PM. The Elizabeth Line and National Portrait Gallery are among the projects up for a top architecture prize awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba). Six ...
The National Gallery ( Greek: Εθνική Πινακοθήκη, Ethniki Pinakothiki) is an art museum located on Vasilissis Sofias avenue in the Pangrati district, Athens, Greece. It is devoted to Greek and European art from the 14th century to the 20th century. The newly renovated building reopened after an 8 year refurbishment, on 24 March ...
National Portrait Gallery. / -35.3; 149.133889. The National Portrait Gallery ( NPGA) in Canberra is a public art gallery containing portraits of prominent Australians. It was established in 1998 and moved to its present building on King Edward Terrace in December 2008.