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The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and 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, from the colonial period to the ...
Added to NRHP. March 24, 1969. The Renwick Gallery is a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum located in Washington, D.C. that displays American craft and decorative arts from the 19th to 21st century. The gallery is housed in a National Historic Landmark building that was opened in 1859 on Pennsylvania Avenue and originally housed the ...
The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is an art museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., focusing on Asian art. The Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art together form the National Museum of Asian Art in the United States. [ 1 ] The Freer and Sackler galleries house the largest Asian art research library in the country.
Bead Museum, closed December 2008, [ 8] museum website. Black Fashion Museum, founded 1979, moved to Washington in 1994, closed in 2007 and collection donated to the National Museum of African American History and Culture [ 9][ 10] Corcoran Gallery of Art, open 1869–2014.
The Smithsonian Institution Building (also known as "The Castle") was completed in 1855 to house an art gallery, a library, a chemical laboratory, lecture halls, museum galleries, and offices. [3] During this time the Smithsonian was a learning institution concerned mainly with enhancing science and less interested in being a museum.
June 23, 1969. The Freer Gallery of Art is an art museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. focusing on Asian art. The Freer and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery together form the National Museum of Asian Art in the United States. [ 2 ] The Freer and Sackler galleries house the largest Asian art research library in the country and ...
Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian Institution ( / smɪθˈsoʊniən / smith-SOH-nee-ən ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge."
Retired Senior Chief Aviation Machinist's Mate Scott Wood carefully restores a Saturn V F-1 rocket engine to its original condition. The Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility, also known colloquially as "Silver Hill" [citation needed], is a storage and former conservation and restoration facility of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, located in Suitland ...