Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel

Area Sights

National Portrait Gallery (37 of 44)

This museum's collection of nearly 20,000 works ranges from paintings and sculpture, photographs and drawings, and performing arts and new media that tell the American story through the lives of poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and activists. The Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library is also located here, offering a collection of more than 100,000 books, catalogues, and periodicals on American art, history, and biography.