- The location of the National Gallery of Art is situated on the spot where a former railroad station once stood called the “Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station.”
- If you are intrigued, let’s know these some very interesting and amazing facts about this Gallery of Art: National Art Gallery Washington Image: c2.staticflickr.com.
- Opened in 1941 as an art gallery “for the nation”, Washington D.C.’s National Gallery of Art boasts one of the country’s largest collections of Western art and...
- Along with the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the National Gallery of Art...
- Ranked among the nation's largest museums, the National Gallery of Art offers free admission and exhibits some of the world's most renowned pieces of art.
- Outside is a sunken sculpture garden that parallels the National Gallery of Art sculpture garden, which is on the opposite side of the National Mall.
- In 1936 Mellon offered to both fund the National Gallery of Art and donate his personal collection to get it started. Mellon is the real MVP!
- You'll love I.M. Pei's East Wing of the National Gallery. You can't have all that open space and lots of art too.
- The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC has one of the finest collections of Dutch and Flemish art in the world.
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