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.
Closed December 25
Free Admission
American art museum featuring works from the colonial era to the present
8th and F Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20004
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Renwick Gallery
Open daily
10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Closed December 25
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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Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
October 20, 2017 – January 28, 2018
Renwick Gallery (Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW)Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962) crafted her extraordinary “Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death”–exquisitely detailed miniature crime scenes–to train homicide investigators to “convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell.”
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Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light
October 6, 2017 – January 7, 2018
Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light restores Thomas Wilfred (1889–1968) to his rightful place in the history of modern art.
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Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
October 13, 2017 – March 11, 2018
Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)This exhibition of prints from SAAM’s collection features the artist’s provocative take on the Civil War.