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Self Guided Tours

Explore collection highlights on your own with easy-to-use audio and video tours accessible 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. All audio tours are available in English, Español, Français, Pусский, 中文, and 日本語.

West Building Tour: Featured Selections

Discover 26 works from the Gallery’s collection.

Family Tour: West Building Highlights

This tour offers children and their adult companions an opportunity to get "up close and personal" with more than 45 of the world's greatest paintings. Move at your own pace and choose from a list of works by such masters as Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, and Winslow Homer.

East Building Tour: Featured Selections

This tour explores a wide range of works from the turn of the 20th century to the present day through the voices of several National Gallery of Art curators, artists, and building architect I.M. Pei.

West Building Highlights Audio Tour in Other Languages

Français

갤러리 컬렉션에서 26개의 작품들을 감상해 보세요.

Accessible Tours

Learn about accessibility at the Gallery

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.

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.

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.

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