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Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Smithsonian American Art Museum is a museum in , part of the . Together with its branch museum, the , SAAM holds one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art made in the from the colonial period to the present.
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  • Opening hours: 11:30 AM—7:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: fine arts museum in Washington, D.C., a division of the Smithsonian Institution
  • Also known as: “American Art”, “American Art Museum Smithsonian Institution”, “N.M.A.A.”, “National Collection of Fine Arts”, “National Museum of American Art”, “National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution”, “NMAA”, “S.A.A.M.”, “SAAM”, and “Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American Art”
  • Address: Washington, DC 20001

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Mall and National Portrait Gallery.

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The , a national park, is a famous 2-mile-long tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly boulevard in stretching from the Capitol Building in the east to the Lincoln Memorial and Potomac River on the west.

Museum
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The is an art museum in , United States. Founded in 1962 and opened in 1968, it is part of the . is situated 350 feet east of Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Government building
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is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in , it has served as the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800 when the national capital was moved from . is situated 3,700 feet west of Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East End and Logan Circle.

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is D.C.'s old downtown quarter, east of 15th St, and includes the neighborhoods of Chinatown, Penn Quarter, Judiciary Square, and Mount Vernon Square. Most D.C. natives simply call this area Downtown.

Neighborhood
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is a historic roundabout park and neighborhood of , located in Northwest D.C. The majority of is primarily residential, except for the highly-commercialized 14th Street corridor that passes through the western part of the neighborhood.

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is a neighborhood in north-central Washington D.C. just east of and south of and . Although it has a diverse population, is distinctive from the adjacent areas due to its African-American heritage.

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Latitude
38.89787° or 38° 53′ 52″ north
Longitude
-77.02359° or 77° 1′ 25″ west
Operator
Smithsonian Institution
Open location code
87C4VXXG+4H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 611558742
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q1192305
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Smithsonian American Art Museum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف سميثسونيان للفنون الأمريكية”
  • Armenian: “Ամերիկյան արվեստի Սմիթսոնյան թանգարան”
  • Armenian: “Սմիթսոնյան ամերիկյան արվեստի թանգարան”
  • Bashkir: “Смитсон американ сәнғәте музейы”
  • Belarusian: “Сьмітсанаў музэй амэрыканскага мастацтва”
  • Belarusian: “Сьмітсанаўскі музэй амэрыканскага мастацтва”
  • Catalan: “Museu Smithsonian d’Art Americà”
  • Catalan: “SAAM”
  • Catalan: “Smithsonian American Art Museum”
  • Chinese: “史密森尼美國藝術博物館”
  • Chinese: “美國藝術館”
  • Czech: “Smithsonian American Art Museum”
  • Czech: “Smithsonianské americké umělecké muzeum”
  • Dutch: “American Art Museum”
  • Dutch: “National Museum of American Art”
  • Dutch: “SAAM”
  • Dutch: “Smithsonian American Art Museum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف الفن الامريكى فى سميثسونيان”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo Smithsonian de Usona Arto”
  • Finnish: “Smithsonian American Art Museum”
  • French: “National Museum of American Art”
  • French: “SAAM”
  • French: “Smithsonian American Art Museum”
  • Galician: “Museo Smithsoniano de Arte Americana”
  • Georgian: “სმითსონის ამერიკული ხელოვნების მუზეუმი”
  • German: “National Museum of American Art”
  • German: “NMoAA”
  • German: “SAAM”
  • German: “Smithsonian American Art Museum”
  • Greek: “Μουσείο Αμερικανικής Τέχνης Σμιθσόνιαν”
  • Hebrew: “המוזיאון לאומנות אמריקאית”
  • Hebrew: “המוזיאון לאמנות אמריקאית”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון סמית’סוניאן לאמנות אמריקאית”
  • Hungarian: “Smithsonian American Art Museum”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Seni Amerika Smithsonian”
  • Italian: “Smithsonian American Art Museum”
  • Japanese: “スミソニアン・アメリカンアート美術館”
  • Japanese: “スミソニアン・アメリカ美術館”
  • Korean: “스미스소니언 미술관”
  • Macedonian: “Смитсонов музеј на американската уметност”
  • Malayalam: “സ്മിത്സോണിയൻ അമേരിക്കൻ ആർട്ട് മ്യൂസിയം”
  • Mazanderani: “اسمیتسون آمریکایی هنرون موزه”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Smithsonian American Art Museum”
  • Norwegian: “Smithsonian American Art Museum”
  • Persian: “موزه هنر آمریکایی اسمیتسونیان”
  • Polish: “Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery”
  • Portuguese: “Museu Smithsonian de Arte Americana”
  • Portuguese: “Museu Smithsoniano de Arte Americana”
  • Russian: “Смитсоновский музей американского искусства”
  • Russian: “Художественный музей Смитсоновского института”
  • Slovenian: “SAAM”
  • Slovenian: “Smithsonian American Art Museum”
  • Slovenian: “Smithsonov muzej ameriške umetnosti”
  • Spanish: “Museo Smithsoniano de Arte Americano”
  • Spanish: “Smithsonian American Art Museum”
  • Swedish: “Smithsonian American Art Museum”
  • Turkish: “Smithsonian American Art Museum”
  • Turkish: “Smithsonian Amerikan Sanat Müzesi”
  • Ukrainian: “S.A.A.M.”
  • Ukrainian: “SAAM”
  • Ukrainian: “Смітсонівський музей американського мистецтва”
  • Urdu: “سمتھسونین امریکن آرٹ میوزیم”
  • Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng Nghệ thuật Hoa Kỳ Smithsonian”
  • Western Panjabi: “سمتھسونین امریکن آرٹ میوزیم”

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Highlights include Old Patent Office Building and Vaquero Statue.

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