National Gallery of Art

Overview

The mission of the National Gallery of Art is to serve the United States of America in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and fostering the understanding of works of art at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards.

Contact Information

6th and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, District Of Columbia 20565
United States

view phone (202) 737-4215 view fax (202) 842-2356

view website https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb.html

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Description

Every work of art in the collections of the National Gallery of Art has been privately donated or purchased with privately donated funds. To encourage others to give, Andrew Mellon insisted that the museum he founded should not bear his name but should be called the National Gallery of Art. By the time the museum opened to the public in March 1941, Mellon

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