A list of Museums and Art Galleries in the United States
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A list of Museums and Art Galleries in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. - Museums and Art Galleries in Washington, D.C., including non-profit art centers and galleries, government entities, and private businesses.
| NAME | LOCATION | TELEPHONE & WEBSITE | SUMMARY |
| American University Museum | 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016 | Telephone: 202-885-1300 http://www.american.edu/ |
Part of American University. Regional, national, and international contemporary art. Style ensures constantly changing, highly relevant and provocative programming. |
| Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) | 201 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20006 | Telephone: 202-370-0147 http://museum.oas.org/ |
Founded by the Organization of American States as a museum for modern and contemporary Latin American and Caribbean art. |
| Corcoran Gallery of Art | 500 17th St NW, Washington, DC 20006 | Telephone: 202-994-1700 http://www.corcoran.org/ |
Part of the Corcoran College of Art and Design. American and European art from early days up to the present. Contemporary Art |
| DAR Museum | 1776 D St NW, Washington, DC 20006 | Telephone: 202-628-1776 http://www.dar.org/museum |
Owned by Daughters of the American Revolution, features 30 period rooms of decorative arts including furniture, silver, paintings, ceramics, textiles, toys, quilts |
| Freer Gallery of Art | 1050 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20560 | Telephone: 202-633-1000 http://www.asia.si.edu/ |
The world's most important holdings of Asian art. In the Freer, you'll also find late nineteenth-century works by James McNeill Whistler and his American contemporaries, while the Sackler hosts contemporary art from Asia. |
| George Washington University Art Galleries | 805 21st Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20052 | Telephone: 202-994-1525 https://www2.gwu.edu/ |
Two galleries (Luther W. Brady Art Gallery and Dimock Gallery), includes painting, sculpture, and photographs, ranging from rare historic pieces to Washingtoniana and Americana to modern art. |
| Georgetown University Art Galleries | 1221 36th St NW, Washington, DC 20007 | Telephone: 202-687-7010 https://art.georgetown.edu/ |
The Art Galleries of the Department of Art and Art History, located in the Walsh building and around the Georgetown campus, provide a teaching gallery environment to students, working artists, and the general public. |
| Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20024 | Telephone: 202-633-4674 http://hirshhorn.si.edu/ |
Contemporary and modern art - painting, photography, and mixed-media assemblage to cinema in the round and immersive Light and Space environments. Sculpture Garden |
| Howard University Gallery of Art | 2455 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059 | Telephone: 202-806-7070 galleryofart.howard.edu |
Part of the Howard University. Contemporary arts and crafts available for visitation and study to students, exhibition of oil paintings, water colors, and drawings |
| Kreeger Museum | 2401 Foxhall Rd NW, Washington, DC 20007 | Telephone: 202-337-3050 kreegermuseum.org |
The Kreeger collection is mainly comprised of works from the 1850s to the present. The Impressionists (Monet, Renoir, Sisley), American artists, Sculpture, Sculpture Garden, art from west and central Africa and Asia. |
| Meridian International Center | 1630 Crescent Place, NW, Washington, DC 20009 | Telephone: 202-667-6800 http://www.meridian.org/ |
Exhibitions of paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, and crafts that reflect various aspects of American culture to encourage foreign understanding. |
| O Street Museum Foundation | 2016 O St NW, Washington, DC 20036 | Telephone: 202-496-2070 http://www.omuseum.org/ |
The collection rotates and changes daily and includes art, music, architecture, memorabilia, manuscripts, sculpture and other items that promote exploration of the creative process. |
| National Gallery of Art | 6th & Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC 20565 | Telephone: 202-737-4215 http://www.nga.gov/ |
The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder. |
| National Museum of African Art | 950 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20560 | Telephone: 202-633-4600 https://africa.si.edu/ |
African art and culture, includes paintings, musical instruments, sculpture, jewelry, regalia, textiles, pottery. |
| National Museum of Women in the Arts | 1250 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20005 | Telephone: 800-222-7270 https://nmwa.org/ |
The women artists working today, the museum directly addresses the gender imbalance in the presentation of art in the U.S. and abroad, thus assuring great women artists a place of honor now and into the future |
| National Portrait Gallery | 8th St NW & F St NW, Washington, DC 20001 | Telephone: 202-633-8300. http://npg.si.edu/ |
Visual arts, performing arts, and new media, the Portrait Gallery presents poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and activists whose lives form national identity. |
| Phillips Collection | 1600 21st St NW, Washington, DC 20009 | Telephone: 202-387-2151 phillipscollection.org |
The Phillips Collection is an exceptional collection of modern and contemporary art in a dynamic environment for collaboration, innovation, engagement with the world, scholarship, and new forms of public participation. |
| Salve Regina Gallery | 620 Michigan Ave., N.E. Washington, DC 20064 | Telephone: 202-319-5000 http://art.cua.edu/ |
Part of the The Catholic University of America. |
| Smithsonian American Art Museum | 8th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC 20004 | Telephone: 202-633-1000 http://americanart.si.edu/ |
One of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world. American visual culture, including photography, modern folk and self-taught art, African American art, Latino art, and video games. |