The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden, located on the National Mall between Third and Ninth Streets at Constitution Avenue. Admission to the National Gallery of Art is free. The National Gallery of Art posseses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present. The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery together form the national museum of asia art at the Smithsonian Institution. The galleries are located on the National Mall.
Admission is free.
The Sackler Gallery is connected by an underground exhibition space to the neighboring Freer Gallery of Art. Admission is free. The Hirshhorn has one of the most comprehensive collections of modern sculpture in the United States or abroad. The collection's other strengths include contemporary art, European painting since World War II and American painting since the late l9th century. The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. is currently undergoing renovation and will be closed until 2004.