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# National Portrait Gallery

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11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. dailyClosed Dec. 25

Admission is free

npg.si.edu

## About

With visual arts, performing arts, and new media, the Portrait Gallery introduces you to the people who have shaped the country—poets, presidents, actors, activists, visionaries, villains...and everyone in between. Its collection weaves together story and biography from precolonial times to the present to tell the American story.

## Highlights

*America’s Presidents*, the nation’s only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House including the Obama portraits; workshops and programs for young people; Portrait Discovery Kits for kids and families; the Kogod Courtyard.

## Getting Here

### Metrorail

**Metro station:** Gallery Place/Chinatown (9th Street exit); Red, Green, or Yellow line

**Nearest Accessible Metrorail Entrance:**Gallery Place/ChinatownNE side of 7th St., NW, between F and G St.

Check Metrorail's Elevator and Escalator Service Status page for service disruptions.

### MetroAccess

To provide an address for MetroAccess Paratransit, please use 800 G St, NW. Please note this address is located directly across the street from the museum’s entrance.

### Parking

There is **no public parking facility** for the museum. City-operated metered parking and commercial lots are available.

View a map of accessible parking spaces.

Reserved parking near the museums can be purchased in advance through ParkWhiz.Note: *ParkWhiz is a third-party vendor (ParkWhiz Privacy Policy).*

## Dining and Shopping

### Dining

**Courtyard Café**The Café offers a fresh and seasonal menu of American-inspired dishes, as well as coffee drinks, wine, beer, and desserts. Specialty sandwiches, soups, pastries, organic salads, wraps, antipasti, and organic options are all on the menu at this gorgeous, all-seasons location.11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

For assistance with/information on group dining, please visit Group Sales.

### Shopping

The Museum Shop features a variety of distinctive objects inspired by popular works from the museum’s permanent collection as well as works from special exhibitions. If you can't or don't feel like coming in person, shop online!

## Accessibility

See **Getting Here**for information on accessible parking and public transportation.

**Accessibility Information and Programs**
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**Disability access service requests:**NPGAccess@si.edu or call 202.633.8300

                - Exhibitions
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                        -  **  Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell				              March  1, 2024 – January  5, 2025														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  Commissioned Portrait of Oprah Winfrey				              December  13, 2023 – October  20, 2024														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass				              December  8, 2023 – December  6, 2026														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  Recent Acquisitions, 2023				              November  3, 2023 – October  27, 2024														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism				              October  20, 2023 – September  2, 2024														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  Duty, Honor, Country: Antebellum Portraits of West Pointers				              June  23, 2023 – June  9, 2024														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  One Life: Frederick Douglass				              June  16, 2023 – April  21, 2024														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  Abraham Lincoln by W.F.K. Travers				              February  10, 2023 – December  31, 2027														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  Powerful Partnerships: Civil War-Era Couples				              July  1, 2022 – May  18, 2025														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  Former President Barack Obama by Artist Kehinde Wiley				              February  13, 2018 – Indefinitely														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  Former First Lady, Michelle Obama by Artist Amy Sherald				              February  13, 2018 – Indefinitely														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  America's Presidents				              September  22, 2017 – Permanent														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  Explore! with the National Portrait Gallery				              January  28, 2017 – Indefinitely														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  The Four Justices				              October  28, 2013 – Indefinitely														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  The Struggle for Justice				              February  12, 2010 – Permanent														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  Bravo!				              July  1, 2006 – Indefinitely														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  Champions				              July  1, 2006 – Indefinitely														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900				              July  1, 2006 – Permanent														              Portrait Gallery										 
                        -  **  Twentieth-Century Americans				              July  1, 2006 – Permanent														              Portrait Gallery										 

View all Portrait Gallery exhibitions

View all exhibitions

                          -          National Portrait Gallery        George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        John Brown 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Billie Holiday 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Pocahontas 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Alexander Hamilton 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Kurt Cobain 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Dolores Huerta 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Red Deb 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Jimi Hendrix 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Shaun White 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Abraham Lincoln 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Venus and Serena Williams 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Chuck Close Self-Portrait 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        John Waters 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Anna May Wong 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Mae West 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Marilyn Monroe 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Barack Obama 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Shawn Carter, or Jay-Z 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Duke Ellington 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Kicking Bird 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Barbra Streisand 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Isamu Noguchi 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Thelonious Monk 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Martin Luther King, Jr. 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Marian Anderson 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        W. E. B. Du Bois 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        LeBron James 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Samuel Clemens 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Jacqueline Kennedy, the King of Hearts - Stop Action Reaction 
                          -          National Portrait Gallery        Steve Jobs 

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