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Self-Guided Tours

Bring your phone and explore collection highlights on your own with easy-to-use audio tours on your mobile device. Don't have a mobile device? Self-guided collection brochures are also available at all information desks.

Audio Tours

Be your own guide as you tour the campus with your mobile device. Select tours are available in English, Español, Français, Pусский, 中文, 日本語, and 한국어

A man looks up in despair as he holds his hands clasped in front of his face. He's sitting in a cave and next to him are two large lions. One is roaring with an open mouth and large fangs while the other stares at us.

West Building Tour: Featured Selections

First time visiting? The works on this audio guide capture some of the greatest artistic expression of the last 500 years. From Van Gogh to Goya to Raphael, it's a marvel to behold.

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a man's face looks out at us. He has golden hair and a beard, which is contrasted with the deep blue swirls in the background

Kids West Building Tour: Featured Selections

Join us as we get up close and personal with some of the world's greatest paintings. Move at your own pace and choose from a works by such masters as Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, and Winslow Homer.

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We look at a still life of various objects on a table: a jug, two apples, a knife, a folded newspaper that had

East Building Tour: Featured Selections

Explore a wide range of works from the turn of the 20th century to today through the voices of artists, our curators, and East Building architect, I.M. Pei.

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Accessible Tours

Learn about accessibility at the National Gallery

We also offer verbal description audio tours and American Sign Language video tours.

Sail, boat, clouds, boy’s slacks white. Mast boom, gaff, edge of hatch 1 & rim of boat yellow, pillar orange. Buoy dark, bluey green with brown seaweed on buoy. Boys very tanned. Red headkerchief & halter on girl & dark slacks. Sky & water blue, water darkest at horizon. Touch of green on water reflected by dark green waterline of boat.

Verbal Description Tour: East Building

This tour offers vivid descriptions of specific works on view in the East Building. Though designed for people with vision loss, this tour is a useful tool for guided looking for all visitors.
We hover over the bottle-green surface of a river as it rushes toward a horseshoe-shaped waterfall that curves away from us in this horizontal landscape painting. The water is white and frothy right in front of us, where the shelf of the riverbed changes levels near the edge of the falls. Across from us, the water is also white where it falls over the edge. A thin, broken rainbow glints in the mist near the upper left corner of the painting and continues its arc farther down, between the falls. The horizon line is just over halfway up the composition. Plum-purple clouds sweep into the composition at the upper corners against a lavender-colored sky. Tiny trees and a few buildings line the shoreline to the left and right in the deep distance.

Verbal Description Tour: West Building

This tour offers vivid descriptions of specific works on view in the West Building. Though designed for people with vision loss, this tour is a useful tool for guided looking for all visitors.
A dark skinned man with glasses and a white shirt gestures in front of a picture of the East Building. There is text overlaid that reads

ASL Video Tour: East Building

Discover 35 essential works in the collection of the National Gallery of Art through a video tour conducted in ASL.
A dark skinned man with glasses and a white shirt gestures in front of a picture of the East Building. A text overlay reads

ASL Video Tour: West Building

Discover 26 essential works in the collection of the National Gallery of Art through a video tour conducted in ASL.

A hand holds a mobile device with a view of the Gallery's floorplan

Download Our Mobile App

Discover the backstory to 1,000-plus works of art on our campus. Meet your personal companion.

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