National Portrait Gallery
About
With visual arts, performing arts, and new media, the National Portrait Gallery introduces you to the people who have shaped the country—poets, presidents, actors, activists, visionaries, villains...and everyone in between. Its collection weaves together story and biography from precolonial times to the present to tell the American story. The National Portrait Gallery shares its magnificent National Historic Landmark building with the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Highlights
America’s Presidents, the nation’s only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House; workshops and programs for young people; the Kogod Courtyard.
MetroAccess
To provide an address for MetroAccess Paratransit, please use 800 G St, NW. Please note this address is located directly across the street from the museum’s entrance.
Metrorail
Metro station: Gallery Place/Chinatown (9th Street exit); Red, Green, or Yellow line
Nearest Accessible Metrorail Entrance:
Gallery Place/Chinatown
NE side of 7th St., NW, between F and G St.
Check Metrorail's Elevator and Escalator Service Status page for service disruptions.
Parking
There is no public parking facility for the museum. City-operated metered parking and commercial lots are available.
View a map of accessible parking spaces.
Reserved parking near the museums can be purchased in advance through ParkWhiz.
Note: ParkWhiz is a third-party vendor (ParkWhiz Privacy Policy).
Dining
Courtyard Café
The Café offers a fresh and seasonal menu of American-inspired dishes, as well as coffee drinks, wine, beer, and desserts. Specialty sandwiches, soups, pastries, organic salads, wraps, antipasti, and organic options are all on the menu at this gorgeous, all-seasons location.
11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
For assistance with/information on group dining, please visit Group Sales.
Shopping
The Museum Shop features a variety of distinctive objects inspired by popular works from the museum’s permanent collection as well as works from special exhibitions. If you can't or don't feel like coming in person, shop online!
See Getting Here for information on accessible parking and public transportation.
Accessibility Information and Programs
Disability access service requests: NPGAccess@si.edu or call 202.633.8300