Art
Renwick Gallery
Washington, D.C.
About
The Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C. is the Smithsonian American Art Museum's dedicated gallery for American craft and decorative arts. Housed in a magnificent French Second Empire building completed in 1874 — the first purpose-built art museum in Washington — the Renwick presents major installations and rotating exhibitions that celebrate the power of human making in all its forms.
Highlights & Things Not to Miss
Grand Salon
Monumental contemporary installations fill the historic ballroom
American Craft
Masterworks of craft from glass to fiber to ceramics
Historic Building
Washington DC's first purpose-built art museum, c. 1874