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Art
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
About
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. is one of the world's great art museums and free to the public. Its collection of over 150,000 works traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci outside Europe — Ginevra de' Benci. The museum's East Building, designed by I.M. Pei, is a masterpiece of modern architecture.
Highlights & Things Not to Miss
Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci
The only Leonardo da Vinci painting in the Americas
I.M. Pei East Building
A masterpiece of modern museum architecture
Dutch and Flemish Masters
Rembrandt, Vermeer, and their contemporaries in depth