National Portrait Gallery

8th and G Streets, NW
Washington, DC

11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily
Closed Dec. 25

Admission is free

npg.si.edu

About

With visual arts, performing arts, and new media, the Portrait Gallery introduces you to the people who have shaped the country—poets, presidents, actors, activists, visionaries, villains...and everyone in between. Its collection weaves together story and biography from precolonial times to the present to tell the American story.

Highlights

America’s Presidents, the nation’s only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House including the Obama portraits; workshops and programs for young people; Portrait Discovery Kits for kids and families; the Kogod Courtyard.

Getting Here

Metro Station: Gallery Place-Chinatown (9th St. exit)

Parking

There is no public parking facility for the museum. City-operated metered parking and commercial lots are available.

View a map of accessible parking spaces.

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Dining and Shopping

Dining

Courtyard Café
The Café offers a fresh and seasonal menu of American-inspired dishes, as well as coffee drinks, wine, beer, and desserts. Specialty sandwiches, soups, pastries, organic salads, wraps, antipasti, and organic options are all on the menu at this gorgeous, all-seasons location.
11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Shopping

The Museum Shop features a variety of distinctive objects inspired by popular works from the museum’s permanent collection as well as works from special exhibitions. If you can't or don't feel like coming in person, shop online!