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
Temporarily closed
Free Admission
American art museum featuring works from the colonial era to the present
8th and G Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20004
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Renwick Gallery
Temporarily closed
Free Admission
Branch museum featuring contemporary craft and decorative arts
Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
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Featured Exhibitions
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¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now
Reopening 2021
Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and G Streets, NW)In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today. Many artists came of age during the civil rights, labor, anti-war, feminist and LGBTQ+ movements and channeled the period’s social activism into assertive aesthetic statements that announced a new political and cultural consciousness among people of Mexican descent in the United States. ¡Printing the Revolution! explores the rise of Chicano graphics within these early social movements and the ways in which Chicanx artists since then have advanced innovative printmaking practices attuned to social justice. -
Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020
Reopening 2021
Renwick Gallery (Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW)Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 features artists Lauren Fensterstock, Timothy Horn, Debora Moore, and Rowland Ricketts. Representing craft media from fiber to mosaic to glass and metals, these artists approach the long history of art’s engagement with the natural world through unconventional and highly personal perspectives.
Today's Events
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Handi-hour Online
Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 7pm EDTSOLD OUT Free | Registration required via Eventbrite