National Portrait Gallery & Smithsonian American Art Museum: Small-Group Tour

About This Experience

Explore a former Civil War hospital where Walt Whitman once cared for soldiers. Since 1829, this building has hosted art exhibits and is now a full-time museum. Discover the National Portrait Gallery, featuring portraits of influential Americans, including presidents, first ladies, and Civil War heroes like Grant and Sherman. See 19th-century daguerreotypes and early photographs of the Robber Barons and Suffragettes. Visit the American Art Museum to view works by Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, David Hockney, and Georgia O’Keeffe. Also, look at the unique portrait of former President Obama at the museum.