Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is the Smithsonian’s principal museum of modern and contemporary art, prominently situated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Created by Congress in 1966 from a long-developing Mall museum plan and the collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, it opened in 1974 after a 1969 groundbreaking. Gordon Bunshaft designed its distinctive elevated concrete cylinder around an open courtyard, with a sunken sculpture garden across Jefferson Drive. The collection ranges from French Impressionism and American modernism to post-World War II and recent art, and the institution remains a major national center for exhibiting painting, sculpture, performance, and other newer forms.

Washington, District of Columbia · United States