The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
is an art museum alongside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United
States. The museum was originally gifted during the 1960s with the permanent
art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was developed by architect Gordon
Bunshaft and is part of the Smithsonian Institution. It was designed as the
United States' museum of contemporary and modern art and presently concentrates
its selection building and exhibition preparing mainly on the post–World War II
time, with specific emphasis on art made during the last 50 years.
The Hirshhorn is located accurately halfway
in between the Washington Monument and the US Capitol, anchoring the
southernmost end of the so called L’Enfant axis. The National Archives or National
Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden across the Mall, and the National Portrait
Gallery, Smithsonian American Art building several blocks to the north, also
indicate this critical axis.
The building itself is an interest,
compared by some to a large spacecraft parked on the National Mall. The
building is an open cylinder elevated on four massive legs, with a large water
fountain taking up the central courtyard.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Timings
Museum: 10.00am – 05:30pm
Plaza: 07:30am – 05:30pm
Garden: 07:30–DUSK
Open daily, except December 25th
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Fee
Free
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location
700 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC
20560, United States
Museum offices: 202-633-4674
Fax: 202-633-8835
Museum shop: 202-633-0126
Information: 202-633-1000
Website: www.hirshhorn.si.edu
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