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 Downtown
Washington, DC Arts Museums:
- Art
Museum of the Americas, OAS, Washington, DC:
201 18th St. NW, Washington 202/458-6016 (cross st. Virginia
Avenue)
- Black
Fashion Museum: 2007 Vermont Ave. NW, Washington 202/667-0744
(cross st. V Street)
- The
Corcoran Museum: 500 17th Street NW, Washington,
DC 20006, Tel: 202-639-1700, fax 202-639-1768
- Fondo
del Sol Visual Arts and Media: 2112 R Street NW, Washington
DC 20009, tel 202.483.2777, Artist Run Alternative Museum (Dupont
Circle area)
- Freer
Gallery: Jefferson Drive and 12st Street, SW, Washington,
DC, 202-357-2700
- Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden: Independence Avenue at Seventh
Street, SW, Washington, D.C. 20560, 202-357-2700
- Inter-American
Development Bank's Cultural Center: 1300 New York Ave.
NW, Washington, 20577, 202-623-3774, idbcc@iadb.org
- Library
of Congress Exhibitions:
- National
Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution: Smithsonian
Institution, Constitution Avenue, NW,between Third and Seventh
Streets, Washington, DC, 202-737-4215
- National
Gallery of Art / East Building: Pennsylvania Avenue, between
3rd and 4th Streets, NW, Washington, DC, 202-737-4215
- National
Museum of African Art: 950 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington,
DC, 20003, 202-357-2700
- National
Museum of the American Indian: 900 Jefferson Dr
SW, Washington, DC, 20560-0004, (202)357-1300 (currently under
construction)
- National
Museum of Women in the Arts: 1250 New York Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC, 20005-3920, 202-783-5000
- National
Portrait Gallery: F Street at 8th, NW, Washington, DC,
20004-1404, 202-357-1915
- Phillips
Collection: 21st and Q Streets, NW, Washington,
DC, 20009-1090, 202-387-0961
- Renwick
Gallery: 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC, 202-357-2700
- S.
Dillon Ripley Center (International Gallery): The Smithsonian
International Gallery, 1100 Jefferson Drive, S.W., Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, (202) 357-4880 (voice), (202)
786-2374 (TTY)
- Sackler/Freer
Galleries: Smithsonian Institution: 1050 Independence
Avenue, between 10th and 11th Streets, SW, Washington, DC, 202-357-2700
- Smithsonian
American Art Museum: 8th and G Streets, NW, Washington,
DC, 20560-1047, 202-357-2700 (currently under renovation)
- Textile
Museum: 2320 S St NW, Washington, DC 20008-4088, (202)667-0441,
Hand Made Textile Art from Antiquity to the Present (Dupont Circle
area.
- White
House Art:
Maryland
Arts Museums:
- African
Art Museum of Maryland: 5430
Vantage Point Road, Columbia, 410-730-7105
- American
Visionary Art Museum: Baltimore Inner Harbor, 800
Key Highway, Baltimore, MD 21230, (410) 244-1900 Fax (410) 244-5858,
email: avam@avam.org
- Baltimore
Museum of Art 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218-3898,
Baltimore, MD, 410-396-7100
- The
Contemporary (Museum for Contemporary Art): 601. North
Howard St. Baltimore, MD 21201-4589, (410)333-8600 Fax: (410)
333-8602 E-mail: thecontemporar@softaid.net
- Historic
Houses of The Johns Hopkins University:
- Jewish
Museum of Maryland:
- National
Museum of Ceramic Art and Glass: 2406 Shelleydale Dr, Baltimore,
MD, 21209-3242, (410)764-1042 (doesn't currently have their own
site)
- Reginald
F. Lewis Maryland Museum of African American History and Culture:
- Strathmore
Hall: 10701 Rockville Pike North Bethesda, MD 20852 Phone:
301-530-0540 Ticket Office Phone: 301-581-5100, Visual arts exhibitions
and musical performances
- Walters
Art Gallery: 600 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201-5185,
(410)547-9000
Northern
Virginia Arts Museums:
There are several
fine arts museums in Virginia, however, none are in Northern Virginia,
in the metropolitan, DC area. While not strictly a museum the Torpedo
Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA houses art studios
and gallery spaces for several hundred local professional artists.
Depending on where you
are traveling in Virginia, you may want to visit the Virginia
Association of Museums page to determine what else is available.
For your information,
while visiting other parts of the state, more arts museums:
- Abby
Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, VA
- Chrysler
Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
- Contemporary
Arts Center of Virginia, Virgina Beach, VA
- DeWitt
Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Williamsburg, VA
- Kluge-Ruhe
Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA
- Mariners'
Museum, Newport News, VA
(arts related to the sea)
- Muscarelle
Museum of Art , Williamsburg, VA
- Peninsula
Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA (in the Hampton Roads
area)
- University
of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
- Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
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