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Home>Plan Your Visit>Tours, Guides, and Maps>Self-Guided Tours

# Self-Guided Tours

Bring your phone and explore collection highlights on your own with easy-to-use audio tours on your mobile device. Don't have a mobile device? Self-guided collection brochures are also available at all information desks.

## Audio Tours

Be your own guide as you tour the campus with your mobile device. Select tours are available in English, Español,한국어, and 中文.

West Building Tour: Featured Selections
An artist, an ecologist, a poet, a chef, a ballet dancer – and more! Discover notable people exploring the many stories revealed in art from the National Gallery’s rich collections.
Listen NowKids West Building Tour: Featured Selections
Join us as we get up close and personal with some of the world's greatest paintings. Move at your own pace and choose from a works by such masters as Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, and Winslow Homer.
Listen NowEast Building Tour: Featured Selections
Explore a wide range of works from the turn of the 20th century to today through the voices of artists, our curators, and East Building architect, I.M. Pei.
Listen Now

## Accessible Tours

Learn about accessibility at the National Gallery

We also offer verbal description audio tours and American Sign Language video tours.

Verbal Description Tour: East Building
This tour offers vivid descriptions of specific works on view in the East Building. Though designed for people with vision loss, this tour is a useful tool for guided looking for all visitors.
Verbal Description Tour: West Building
This tour offers vivid descriptions of specific works on view in the West Building. Though designed for people with vision loss, this tour is a useful tool for guided looking for all visitors.
ASL Video Tour: East Building
Discover 35 essential works in the collection of the National Gallery of Art through a video tour conducted in ASL.
ASL Video Tour: West Building
Discover 26 essential works in the collection of the National Gallery of Art through a video tour conducted in ASL. 

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