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. Portrait of a Nation is an initiative of the National Portrait Gallery while the museum's home in Washington, DC, is remodeled. This initiative is composed of four major exhibitions, which will tour nationally and internationally for the next four years, as well as a number of smaller exhibitions that will remain at a particular venue for the duration of the renovation.