Washington, United States

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is the Smithsonian's museum of international modern and contemporary art. Opened on the National Mall in 1974 in a distinctive cylindrical concrete building by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it was founded around the collection of immigrant financier Joseph H. Hirshhorn. The museum holds more than 12,000 works, with strengths in postwar painting and sculpture, large-scale outdoor works in its sunken sculpture garden, and a sustained program of media, light, and immersive installation by contemporary artists from around the world.

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft and is part of the Smithsonian Institution. It was conceived as the United States' museum of contemporary and modern art and currently focuses its collection-building and exhibition-planning mainly on the post–World War II period, with particular emphasis on art made during the last 50 years. Source: Wikipedia