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Make thousands of new acquaintances! Featuring scientists, statesmen, and film stars, glimpsed through rare nineteenth-century daguerreotypes or year-old digital video, the National Portrait Gallery collections bring you face to face with America. Get to know us better. Browse, search, explore, and visit.
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is a historic art museum between 7th, 9th, F, and G Streets NW in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded in 1962 and opened in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous Americans.
National Portrait Gallery, London. Open daily from 10.30. Free admission. We look after the world’s greatest collection of portraits.
The CAP maintains records of historically significant American portraits, i.e., portraits of notable American subjects or by notable American artists. New material is added regularly from various sources, including an ongoing survey of portraits held in public and private collections across the country and abroad.
Current Exhibitions. Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939 April 26, 2024 – February 23, 2025 Portrait Gallery. Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell March 1, 2024 – January 5, 2025 Portrait Gallery.
Getting Here. The National Portrait Gallery is situated between 7th and 9th Streets, Northwest, and F and G Streets, Northwest, in the heart of the vibrant Penn Quarter neighborhood in downtown Washington, DC.
the Presidents. National Portrait Gallery. 8th and F Streets NW. Washington, DC 20001. Map/directions. 11:30 AM - 7:00 PM daily. Closed December 25. Smithsonian NPG exhibition: the nation's only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House.
