Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft and is part of the Smithsonian Institution. It was conceived as the United States' museum of contemporary and modern art and currently focuses its collection-building and e... More

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  • Oct 4, 1974

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  • Hirshhorn Museum

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Gordon Bunshaft

Gordon Bunshaft (May 9, 1909 – August 6, 1990) was an architect educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1988, Gordon Bunshaft nominated himself for the Pritzker Prize and eventually won it. Born in Buffalo, New York to Russian immigrant parents of a Jewish decent, where he...

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Address

Seventh Street SW and Independence Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20560

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  • Nov 20, 1997
  • Feb 22, 1998
  • No
  • May 13, 2006
  • Oct 4, 2006
  • Sep 14, 2000
  • Mar 14, 2001
  • No
  • Nov 16, 2000
  • Feb 19, 2001
  • No
  • Nov 14, 2002
  • Mar 2, 2003
  • No
  • Feb 14, 2008
  • May 11, 2008
  • No
  • Apr 28, 2008
  • Aug 17, 2008
  • No
  • Aug 23, 2006
  • Dec 10, 2006
  • Feb 16, 2006
  • May 14, 2006
  • Nov 17, 1999
  • Feb 23, 2000
  • 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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