Events and Programs at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

Events and Programs at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC

Take a Tour

Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery
Thursday & Friday, Noon
Saturday & Sunday, 11:45 a.m. & 3:15 p.m.

Docent’s Choice
Thursday & Friday, 2:30 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday, 1:30 & 4:30 p.m.

Featured Programs

Thursdays at Noon: 3 in 30
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Noon
G St. Lobby
Join us to discuss three self-portraits by Berenice Abbott, Elaine de Kooning, and Alice Neel in Eye to I: Self-Portraits from 1900 to Today.

Conversation Circles
Friday, December 14, 2018
10 a.m.  –  noon
G St. Lobby
Practice English in small groups while learning more about American history through portraiture.

Open Studio: Drawing Trees
Friday, December 14, 2018
1 – 5 p.m.
Education Center
Learn a unique technique for drawing beautiful holiday trees this Friday at Open Studio.

Portrait Discovery Kits
Saturday, December 15, 2018
Sunday, December 16, 2018
1 –  4 p.m.
Education Center
Pick up an activity kit that guides you through the museum and learn more about influential figures from U.S. history.

Portrait Story Days: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Saturday, December 15, 2018
Sunday, December 16, 2018
1 – 4 p.m.
Education Center
Listen to a story and create an abstract collage inspired by painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.

“We Choose to Go to the Moon”
Dec. 12, 15, & 18, 2018
6:30 p.m.
The National Portrait Gallery will present “We Choose to Go to the Moon,” a performance created by the museum’s choreographer in residence, Dana Tai Soon Burgess. Inspired by the Portrait Gallery’s exhibition “One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey,” which includes a portrait of the Apollo 8 astronauts, it reflects on America’s idealism about the space race, the mystery of the cosmos, and the fragility of life.

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For more information on this museum, visit our National Portrait Gallery page.