National Portrait Gallery Washington DC

Usually when I choose a lens for a camera, my preference is for a wide angle or a telephoto. With the wide angle, I get the big picture, the sense of place. With the telephoto, I focus on something or someone in particular. And the beauty of a camera is that you have a fraction of a second to capture whatever it is that got your attention. I try to …

One of the best parts of being in the Nation's Capitol is the many museums you can visit. The Smithsonian complex has a huge variety of museums from the Air and Space to the Smithsonian Castle, where James Smithson himself is entombed. Lucky for tourists, almost all of the museums are free so you can wander in and out any day you want. Many of the …

This is a museum I had always wanted to visit. I was not disappointed; actually I was surprised. In my mind, I assumed this museum was just portraits, mainly of our presidents. That is so far from the case.

I imagine this museum is not visited as much as some of the other Smithsonian museums because it is not located right on the Mall. One …

... had an hour before we had to get my sister, Jenn, to the bus, we checked out the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery which is across the street from the Spy museum.  There were many beautiful paintings of former presidents and ...

... could actually read- so used to them being in latin or another language.  Next stop was the National Portrait Gallery.  This was a surprisingly impressive collection of portraits of influential Americans.  Each picture ...

... have a cigar and a drink sometimes to get out of the White House.  Can you imagine? Close to our hotel was the National Portrait Gallery which to my surprise was open til 7.  We had time….lets go check out some paintings.  Great work ...

... cemetery. We caught a train back into city and had crepes for lunch whilst sitting on the steps of the National Portrait Gallery (which was closed....a large portion of the national museums etc were closed today due to the hurricane), watching the ...

... besuchte Cloeidi noch Spy- und Holocaust-Museum. Zusammen sahen wir das Museum for American Art und die National Portrait Gallery sowie das Historische. Leider sind einige der Museen ein bischen "amerikanisch" gestaltet. Also fokussiert auf ...

... Tussaud's, who had a buy one get one free offer on entry.  Before the day was up we also headed to the National Portrait Gallery/Museum of American Art, one of the free Smithsonian museums.  They had a collection of folk art which I liked as ...

... Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. After some lunch I had a look around the National Portrait Gallery at portraits of the American Presidents, 20th Century Americans, Champions and an exhibition of Norman ...

... the carbs had been removed). Back on the Metro we took the slow train to Gallery-China Town and walked thru the National Portrait Gallery and American Folk Art Museum. They are managed by the Smithsonian and we found a couple of interesting pieces of Art ...

... art. We popped into the National Art Gallery, focusing on the Impressionist paintings. We then wandered up to the National Portrait Gallery & Museum of American Art as it was open till later. I was very excited to see the exhibiton of ...

... away and 20 minutes later, we walked out with new shoes for Kevin...on sale!!!  $20!!!   We headed to the National Portrait Gallery...thinking not too many kids would be at the gallery, and we were right.  Got in right away and headed for ...