Collection Tours
Choose a tour by school or medium and explore the National Gallery's collections of painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and graphic arts. Many guides are available as PDF (Portable Document Format) files and can be downloaded in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

In-Depth Study Tours
Explore an artist, a specific work of art, or a theme in-depth in these specially designed features.

American Art: Explore 10 Themes American Impressionism and Realism American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection Art for the Nation Art Nouveau, 1890-1914 Jacopo Bassano Valentin de Boulogne Alexander Calder Julia Margaret Cameron John Singleton Copley: "Watson and the Shark" Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya Edgar Degas Fauves William Harnett Index of American Design Jasper Johns Edouard Manet: "The Dead Toreador" and "The Bullfight"

Edouard Manet: "The Railway" Thomas Moran Pablo Picasso: "The Tragedy" Jackson Pollock: "Number 1, 1950, (Lavender Mist)" The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt Rembrandt Frederic Remington Revelations from Reproductions: Fifteenth-century Italian Paintings Mark Rothko Edward Ruscha: "Lisp" The Shaw Memorial Edward Steichen Small French Paintings Still Life Johannes Vermeer: "Woman Holding a Balance" Claude Joseph Vernet Johannes Verspronck Edouard Vuillard

Architecture Tours

West Building

Sculpture Garden

East Building

Virtual Exhibition Tours
As you "walk" through these QuickTime VR tours of NGA exhibitions, you can select specific works of art for larger image views, close-up details, streaming audio commentary, and information about the object.

Van Gogh's Van Goghs     QuickTime VR tour     non-plugin tour Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory     QuickTime VR tour	Alexander Calder: 1898-1976     QuickTime VR tour Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press     QuickTime VR tour