Experience D.C.
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The Nation's capital is the ideal destination for art lovers to explore, home to numerous artistic museums, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Freer Gallery of Art, American University Museum, Kreeger Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, O Street Museum Foundation, Meridian International Center, Art Museum of the Americas, National Gallery of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Phillips Collection, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Museum of African Art, and National Portrait Gallery.
The National Gallery of Art is a popular favorite, with a collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals and decorative arts that span from the development of Western Art to the Middle Ages and to the present. Notable works include the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile ever created by Alexander Calder.
The National Gallery of Art is located on the National Mall and is free to the public as part of the Smithsonian Institute. A museum particularly iconic to Washington, D.C. is the National Portrait Gallery, which focuses on individual Americans and includes portraits of our nation's leaders in the Hall of Presidents.
The last stop on Washington, D.C.'s list of not-to-miss art museums is the Corcoran Gallery of Art. This private museum is the largest privately sponsored institution in the district. The permanent collection includes works by Rembrandt, Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Edward Hopper and many others. There are always multiple exhibitions on display, featuring contemporary work on the second floor with modern and early American work on the first floor. The Corcoran's mission is to be "dedicated to art and used solely for the purpose of encouraging the American genius."
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