National Portrait Gallery

This Smithsonian Institution museum features portraits of famous Americans, including presidents, colonial figures and important people from the American Revolution. Temporary exhibitions visit the museum, but there are ample permanent portraits to spend many hours at the National Portrait Gallery.

When the National Portrait Gallery, located in the former Patent Office Building in Penn Quarter, emerged from a six-year, $283-million renovation in July 2006, it gained 57,000 square feet of additional space for its extensive collections. There are portraits of every American president (including Gilbert Stuart's Lansdowne portrait of George Washington and Pat Oliphant's caricatures of Lyndon...

The National Portrait Gallery documents the people who have influenced or are influencing the United States and its culture. You can see a complete collection of portraits of every American president, or learn more about notable Americans including Martin Luther King Jr., Maryilyn Monroe, George Gershwin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gertrude Stein and Babe Ruth.

The National Portrait Gallery is an historic art museum located at 8th and F Streets NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Founded in 1962 and opened to the public in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous Americans. The museum is housed in the historic Old Patent Office Building.The National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian...

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