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National Gallery of Art
A free national museum of Western art on the Mall, holding the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas.
- Editor's score
- 4.7
- Visit
- 2 h 30
- Price
- Free
About
Founded in 1937 with a gift from the financier Andrew Mellon, the gallery occupies a neoclassical West Building and a sharp-angled East Building designed by I. M. Pei. The collection runs from Italian Renaissance masterpieces, including Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci, to Impressionism and modern art. A sculpture garden sits beside the Mall.
Best time to go: Start in the West Building for the old masters, then cross underground to the modern works in the East Building.
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