National Portrait Gallery

The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in Washington, D.C., administered by the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous individual Americans. It resides in the National Historic Landmarked Old Patent Office Building (now renamed the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture), located just south of Chinatown in the Penn Quarter district of downtown Washington. The third oldest federal building i... More
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Also known as:

  • Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery,
  • Old Patent Office,
  • National Collection of Fine Arts

Architecture

Address

National Portrait Gallery Address

Eighth and F Streets NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
United States of America

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Exhibition venue

Exhibitions at this venue:

Exhibition Opened on Closed on Admission fee?
  • Jul 1, 2011
  • May 28, 2012
  • No
  • Apr 29, 2011
  • Mar 18, 2012
  • No
  • Mar 5, 2010
  • Sep 25, 2011
  • No
  • Apr 8, 2011
  • Sep 5, 2011
  • No
  • Mar 11, 2011
  • Aug 14, 2011
  • No
  • Jul 20, 2010
  • Jul 10, 2011
  • No
  • Oct 1, 2010
  • May 30, 2011
  • No
  • Oct 30, 2010
  • Feb 13, 2011
  • No
  • Oct 23, 2010
  • Jan 23, 2011
  • No
  • Feb 12, 2010
  • Sep 26, 2010
  • No
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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a federal district to become the national capital as permitted by...

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From the U.S. National Register of Historic Places base

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Significant Year:

  • 1840
  • 1850
  • 1867
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