Visit the Museums

Two historic locations

The Smithsonian American Art Museum shares its collections, programs, and exhibitions in two locations in Washington, DC. SAAM’s main building is located at the heart of a vibrant downtown cultural district, while its recently renovated branch museum for contemporary craft and decorative art, the Renwick Gallery, is located nine blocks west, near the White House.

SAAM

Open Daily 11:30 A.M.–7:00 P.M.

Free Admission

American art museum featuring works from the colonial era to the present

8th and F Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20004

More on Visiting SAAM

Renwick Gallery

Open Daily 10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

Free Admission

Branch museum featuring contemporary craft and decorative arts

Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20006

Featured Exhibitions

Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery

March 29, 2019 - Ongoing

Renwick Gallery (Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW)

Connections is the Renwick Gallery’s dynamic ongoing permanent collection presentation, featuring more than 80 objects celebrating craft as a discipline and an approach to living differently in the modern world. The installation includes iconic favorites alongside new acquisitions.
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975

March 15, 2019–August 18, 2019

Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)

Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 makes vivid an era in which artists endeavored to respond to the turbulent times and openly questioned issues central to American civic life.
Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue

March 15, 2019–September 2, 2019

Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)

Through maps, videos, and paintings that highlight the voices and stories of former Vietnamese refugees, Tiffany Chung probes the legacies of the Vietnam War and its aftermath.
Orchids: Amazing Adaptations

February 16–April 28, 2019

Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)

Orchids: Amazing Adaptations is a joint collaboration with SAAM, the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Gardens, and the U.S. Botanic Garden. This installation fills the museums’ courtyard with hundreds of orchids of stunning variety.