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The National Gallery houses an extensive collection of European and American art in two spectacular buildings. In the grand, neoclassical West Building, Rembrandt, Rubens and Gainsborough are well-represented. The permanent collection includes works from the 13th to 20th Centuries including a section devoted to Impressionism. An underground concourse with a cafeteria, an excellent gift shop and a walled-in waterfall takes you to the East Building. Designed by I.M. Pei, this triangular building is a key city landmark and home to 20th-century art works and temporary exhibitions.

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Address: Constitution Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20004

City: Washington

State: District Of Columbia (DC)

Country: United States

Phone 1: +1 202 737 4215

Email: gallery-archives@nga.gov

Official site: www.nga.gov

Opening hours: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. Sun 11am-6pm

Exceptionally closed: Closed on December 25th and January 1st

Entrance fee: Free admission

Access by subway: Metro Archives/Navy Memorial, Gallery Place/Verizon Center (Arena/7th and F sts. exit)

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National Gallery of Art, {CATEGORY}

This museum is such a treasure. Housing one of the world's foremost collections of Western paintings, sculpture, and graphic arts, from the Middle Ages into the 21st century, the National Gallery has a dual personality. The original West Building, designed by John Russell Pope (architect of the Jefferson Memorial and the National Archives), is a neoclassical marble masterpiece with a domed rotunda over a colonnaded fountain and high-ceilinged corridors leading to delightful garden courts. At its completion in 1941, the building was the largest marble structure in the world. It was a gift to the nation from financier/philanthropist Andrew W. Mellon, who also contributed the nucleus of the collection, including 21 masterpieces from the Hermitage, two Raphaels among them. The modern East Building, designed by I. M. Pei and opened in 1978, is composed of two adjoining triangles with glass walls and lofty tetrahedron skylights. The pink Tennessee marble from which both buildings were constructed was taken from the same quarry, it forms an architectural link between the two structures. Only a small percentage of the National Gallery's collection of 109,000 works is on display at one time. The Gallery's permanent collection offers reason enough to visit, but its mounted exhibitions make this museum a further must, they're always fantastic. The West Building: From the Mall entrance, you can stop first at the Art Information Room to design your own tour on a computer, if you like. But don't spend too much time here. Step into the gorgeous Rotunda, which leads right and left of you to light-filled halls punctuated with sculpture, off these long corridors stem intimate painting galleries organized by age and nationality. To your left, as you face away from the Mall, are works by the older masters, from 13th-century Italians to 16th-century Germans. To your right are their younger counterparts, from 18th- and 19th-century French and Spanish artists to later works by British and American artists. These are creations by El Greco, Bruegel, Poussin, Vermeer, Van Dyck, Rubens, Fra Angelico, Gilbert Stuart, Winslow Homer, Constable, Turner, Mary Cassatt - you name it. The only Leonardo da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere hangs here, his Ginevra de' Benci, just another masterpiece among this bevy of masterpieces. Descend the grand marble staircase to the ground floor, where the museum's sculpture galleries are columned, vaulted, and filled with light. Highlights here range from Chinese porcelain to Renaissance decorative arts to 46 wax statuettes by Degas to Honoré Daumier's entire series of bronze sculptures, including all 36 of his caricatured portrait busts of French government officials. The National Gallery Sculpture Garden, just across 7th Street from the West Wing, takes up 2 city blocks and features open lawns, a central pool with a spouting fountain (the pool turns into an ice rink in winter), an exquisite glassed-in pavilion housing an excellent cafe, 17 sculptures by renowned artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Ellsworth Kelly (and Scott Burton, whose Six-Part Seating you're welcome to sit upon) and a Paris Metro sign, and informally landscaped shrubs, trees, and plants. It continues to be a hit, especially in warm weather, when people sit on the wide rim of the pool and dangle their feet in the water while they eat their lunch. Friday evenings in summer, the gallery stages live jazz performances here. The East Building: This wing is a showcase for the museum's collection of 20th-century art, including works by Picasso, Miró, Matisse, Pollock, and Rothko, for an exhibit called Small French Paintings, which I love, and for the gallery's special exhibitions. But chances are, the first thing you'll notice in this wing is the famous, massive aluminum Alexander Calder mobile dangling in the seven-story sky-lit atrium. And here's a tip that lots of people don't know: If you make your way to the tippy-top of the East Wing, whether by elevator or stairs, you reach a level that's actually named the "Tower", the tiny setting for the gallery's ongoing series of shows highlighting artistic developments since 1970. In 2009, the Tower featured the comics- and politics-influenced paintings and drawings by American artist Philip Guston. (For anyone who remembers that the Tower was the longtime home for four Matisse cutouts, no worries, you will now find the cutouts displayed on the Concourse level of the East Wing, Mon-Sat 10am-3pm and Sun 11am-4pm).. Altogether, you should allow at least 2 hours to tour the gallery, but you won't see everything here. Pick up a floor plan and calendar of events at an information desk to find out about National Gallery exhibits, films, tours, lectures, and concerts. Immensely popular is the gallery's Sunday concert series, now in its 68th year, with concerts performed most Sunday evenings, October through June, at 6:30pm in the beautiful garden court of the West Building. Admission is free and seating is on a first-come basis, my suggestion is to tour the gallery in late afternoon, lingering until 6pm, when the galleries close and the queuing begins in the Rotunda. The concerts feature chamber music, string quartets, pianists, and other forms of classical music performances. Call tel. 202/842-6941. The gallery conducts school tours, wide-ranging introductory tours, and tours in several languages. The gift shop is a favorite. You'll also find several pleasing dining options - among them the concourse-level Cascade Café, which has multiple food stations, the Garden Café, on the ground floor of the West Building, and best of all, the sculpture garden's Pavilion Café.

National Gallery of Art, {CATEGORY}

This museum is such a treasure. Housing one of the world's foremost collections of Western paintings, sculpture, and graphic arts, from the Middle Ages into the 21st century, the National Gallery has a dual personality. The original West Building, designed by John Russell Pope (architect of the Jefferson Memorial and the National Archives), is a neoclassical marble masterpiece with a domed rotunda over a colonnaded fountain and high-ceilinged corridors leading to delightful garden courts. At its completion in 1941, the building was the largest marble structure in the world. It was a gift to the nation from financier/philanthropist Andrew W. Mellon, who also contributed the nucleus of the collection, including 21 masterpieces from the Hermitage, two Raphaels among them. The modern East Building, designed by I. M. Pei and opened in 1978, is composed of two adjoining triangles with glass walls and lofty tetrahedron skylights. The pink Tennessee marble from which both buildings were constructed was taken from the same quarry, it forms an architectural link between the two structures. Only a small percentage of the National Gallery's collection of 109,000 works is on display at one time. The Gallery's permanent collection offers reason enough to visit, but its mounted exhibitions make this museum a further must, they're always fantastic. The West Building: From the Mall entrance, you can stop first at the Art Information Room to design your own tour on a computer, if you like. But don't spend too much time here. Step into the gorgeous Rotunda, which leads right and left of you to light-filled halls punctuated with sculpture, off these long corridors stem intimate painting galleries organized by age and nationality. To your left, as you face away from the Mall, are works by the older masters, from 13th-century Italians to 16th-century Germans. To your right are their younger counterparts, from 18th- and 19th-century French and Spanish artists to later works by British and American artists. These are creations by El Greco, Bruegel, Poussin, Vermeer, Van Dyck, Rubens, Fra Angelico, Gilbert Stuart, Winslow Homer, Constable, Turner, Mary Cassatt - you name it. The only Leonardo da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere hangs here, his Ginevra de' Benci, just another masterpiece among this bevy of masterpieces. Descend the grand marble staircase to the ground floor, where the museum's sculpture galleries are columned, vaulted, and filled with light. Highlights here range from Chinese porcelain to Renaissance decorative arts to 46 wax statuettes by Degas to Honoré Daumier's entire series of bronze sculptures, including all 36 of his caricatured portrait busts of French government officials. The National Gallery Sculpture Garden, just across 7th Street from the West Wing, takes up 2 city blocks and features open lawns, a central pool with a spouting fountain (the pool turns into an ice rink in winter), an exquisite glassed-in pavilion housing an excellent cafe, 17 sculptures by renowned artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Ellsworth Kelly (and Scott Burton, whose Six-Part Seating you're welcome to sit upon) and a Paris Metro sign, and informally landscaped shrubs, trees, and plants. It continues to be a hit, especially in warm weather, when people sit on the wide rim of the pool and dangle their feet in the water while they eat their lunch. Friday evenings in summer, the gallery stages live jazz performances here. The East Building: This wing is a showcase for the museum's collection of 20th-century art, including works by Picasso, Miró, Matisse, Pollock, and Rothko, for an exhibit called Small French Paintings, which I love, and for the gallery's special exhibitions. But chances are, the first thing you'll notice in this wing is the famous, massive aluminum Alexander Calder mobile dangling in the seven-story sky-lit atrium. And here's a tip that lots of people don't know: If you make your way to the tippy-top of the East Wing, whether by elevator or stairs, you reach a level that's actually named the "Tower", the tiny setting for the gallery's ongoing series of shows highlighting artistic developments since 1970. In 2009, the Tower featured the comics- and politics-influenced paintings and drawings by American artist Philip Guston. (For anyone who remembers that the Tower was the longtime home for four Matisse cutouts, no worries, you will now find the cutouts displayed on the Concourse level of the East Wing, Mon-Sat 10am-3pm and Sun 11am-4pm).. Altogether, you should allow at least 2 hours to tour the gallery, but you won't see everything here. Pick up a floor plan and calendar of events at an information desk to find out about National Gallery exhibits, films, tours, lectures, and concerts. Immensely popular is the gallery's Sunday concert series, now in its 68th year, with concerts performed most Sunday evenings, October through June, at 6:30pm in the beautiful garden court of the West Building. Admission is free and seating is on a first-come basis, my suggestion is to tour the gallery in late afternoon, lingering until 6pm, when the galleries close and the queuing begins in the Rotunda. The concerts feature chamber music, string quartets, pianists, and other forms of classical music performances. Call tel. 202/842-6941. The gallery conducts school tours, wide-ranging introductory tours, and tours in several languages. The gift shop is a favorite. You'll also find several pleasing dining options - among them the concourse-level Cascade Café, which has multiple food stations, the Garden Café, on the ground floor of the West Building, and best of all, the sculpture garden's Pavilion Café.

National Gallery of Art, {CATEGORY}

The National Gallery houses an extensive collection of European and American art in two spectacular buildings. In the grand, neoclassical West Building, Rembrandt, Rubens and Gainsborough are well-represented. The permanent collection includes works from the 13th to 20th Centuries including a section devoted to Impressionism. An underground concourse with a cafeteria, an excellent gift shop and a walled-in waterfall takes you to the East Building. Designed by I.M. Pei, this triangular building is a key city landmark and home to 20th-century art works and temporary exhibitions.

National Gallery of Art, {CATEGORY}

The National Gallery houses an extensive collection of European and American art in two spectacular buildings. In the grand, neoclassical West Building, Rembrandt, Rubens and Gainsborough are well-represented. The permanent collection includes works from the 13th to 20th Centuries including a section devoted to Impressionism. An underground concourse with a cafeteria, an excellent gift shop and a walled-in waterfall takes you to the East Building. Designed by I.M. Pei, this triangular building is a key city landmark and home to 20th-century art works and temporary exhibitions.