Best National Gallery Of Art Day Trips & Things to Do

The free art museum located in Washington, D.C.'s National Mall has the only Leonardo da Vinci painting in North and South America. National Gallery of Art originated in 1937 with a donation of the large art collection of banker Andrew Mellon and today has more than 130,000 paintings, photographs, drawings, sculptures and furniture. Its campus has an amazing 6.1-acre Sculpture Garden among its Neo-classical style West Building and Modern style East Building. The Sculpture Garden has a pool and fountain during the summer and an ice skating rink during the winter.