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Detail of Laure Tixier's Plaid Houses maquettes: an in-focus blue felt house with visible stitches and coarse texture beside an out-of-focus orange one.

National Museum of Women in the ArtsDowntown

The NMWA Collection

Now showingPermanent collection$16

Thousands of works by women artists from the 16th century to today, including Lavinia Fontana, Vigee Le Brun, Mary Cassatt, Frida Kahlo and Laure Tixier's felt Plaid Houses.

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On nowAll of October 2026

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Still from Shahzia Sikander's digital animation The Last Post (2010)

Shahzia Sikander: The Last Post

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Installation view of Nick Cave: Mammoth at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Nick Cave: Mammoth

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Ted Wathen, Former Company Houses, Jenkins, Letcher County, Kentucky, 1975, gelatin silver print

Much Here Is Beautiful: Photography Surveys of the U.S. Bicentennial

Smithsonian American Art Museum

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The Greek Revival portico and columned facade of the Old Patent Office Building, home of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC

Smithsonian American Art Museum

ArtFree7 min walk
The Greek Revival south (F Street) portico of the Old Patent Office Building, home of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC

National Portrait Gallery

ArtFree7 min walk
The red brick and sandstone Second Empire facade of the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC, with mansard roofs and "Dedicated to Art" carved above the entrance

Renwick Gallery

ArchitectureFree10 min walk
The neoclassical National Archives Building with its Corinthian colonnade, seen from Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC

National Archives Museum

ArchitectureFree12 min walk

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