The Charles Willson Peale Family Papers, a historical editing project established in 1974, is an integral part of the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. The project has collected ...

Moreover, the National Portrait Gallery only takes up half of the building and shares the space with the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This museum showcases rotating exhibits, which have ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced that it will honor four prominent Americans with the prestigious ...

When planning exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, our historians and curators carefully select what will be displayed in the galleries, considering hundreds of possible images for each ...

The official portrait of former President Barack Obama was moved from its position in the Grand Foyer of the White House on ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will add four new portraits to its permanent collection later this year, continuing its tradition of honoring the artistic, cultural, and ...

The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery collection reflects many faces of Lincoln that chart his passage from a fresh-faced Illinois congressman to his grizzled isolation as president. National ...

FILE - The Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, home of the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is seen, March 28, 2025, in Washington.

The Smithsonian now operates a broad range of cultural centers in Washington and beyond, including the Air and Space Museum, the Portrait Gallery, the National Zoo and the Smithsonian Gardens.

Portraits of the honorees, who have made “transformative contributions to the United States,” will be added to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Martha S.

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, which provides ...