National Museum of Women in the Arts

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts.

The museum building is a renovated Masonic Temple. The building was built in 1908. In 1983 the Masons sold the building and it was bought by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. It recieved National Register of Historic Places landmark status in 1987.

Important women artists in the museum's collection include Louise Bourgeois, Mary Cassatt, Judy Chicago, Frida Kahlo, Shirin Neshat, Faith Ringgold, Pipilotti Rist, Amy Sherald and Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun. The museum owns art work from the 16th century through to the present. More than 1,000 women artists are in the collection.

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