Washington, United States

Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Smithsonian American Art Museum is the nation's first collection of American art, with roots reaching back to 1829. Today it shares the historic Old Patent Office Building in Washington, D.C. with the National Portrait Gallery — joined since 2007 by a Norman Foster glass canopy over the Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard. Its holdings of more than 45,000 works trace the artistic story of the United States across three centuries, with significant collections of folk and self-taught art, American Impressionism, African American art, Latino art, photography, and contemporary craft and video.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art made in the United States from the colonial period to the present. More than 7,000 artists are represented in the museum's collection. Most exhibitions are held in the museum's main building, the Old Patent Office Building, while craft-focused exhibitions are shown in the Renwick Gallery. Source: Wikipedia