Museums
There are 4 museums starting with the letter N:
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art serves as a center of visual art, education, and culture. Its collection of more than 150,000 paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, photographs, prints, and drawings spans the history of Western art. For the breadth, scope, and magnitude of its collections, the National Gallery is widely considered to be one of the greatest museums in the U.S., often ranking alongside the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Of the top three art museums in the United States by annual visitors, it is the only one that has no admission fee. In 2021, it attracted more than 1,700,000 visitors, and ranked fifth on the list of most visited art museums in the world.
Spanish artists include Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Diego Velázquez, El Greco, Francisco Antonio Ruiz Gijón, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Jusepe de Ribera, Juan de Flandes, Juan Gris, Juan van der Hamen y León, Luis Meléndez, Luisa Roldán (La Roldana), Mariano Fortuny and Master of the Catholic Kings
National Museum of Women in the Arts
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) is the world’s first museum solely dedicated to championing women through the arts. Through its collections, exhibitions, programs, and online content, the museum fosters discussions about art and ideas. NMWA advocates for better representation of women artists and serves as a vital center for thought leadership, community engagement and social change. By showcasing significant women artists from the past and present, NMWA addresses gender imbalances in art presentation. The collection features diverse works in various mediums by artists such as Rosa Bonheur, Louise Bourgeois, Lalla Essaydi, Lavinia Fontana, Frida Kahlo, Hung Liu, Zanele Muholi, Faith Ringgold, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Amy Sherald.
Spanish artists include Elena Brockmann and Remedios Varo
Norton Simon Museum
The Norton Simon Museum, located in Pasadena, California, is renowned worldwide for its private art collection. Situated just steps away from the Old Pasadena district, known for its shops and restaurants, and only ten miles from downtown Los Angeles, the museum showcases an assortment of European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century, as well as South and Southeast Asian art spanning 2,000 years. Approximately 1,000 works from the permanent collection of 12,000 objects are on view in the Norton Simon Museum’s galleries and sculpture garden throughout the year.
Spanish artists include Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Francisco de Zurbarán, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Jusepe de Ribera, Juan Gris, Juan Rexach and Pedro Fernando
NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale
Originating in 1958 as the Fort Lauderdale Art Center, The NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is located in a 75,000-square-foot modernist building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. The current building was constructed in 1986, with a 10,000-square-foot wing added in 2001. The museum, unlike major museums in nearby Miami and Palm Beach emphasizes contemporary (20th century) projects. Among its 6,200 pieces are a significant collection of ceramics by Pablo Picasso, a collection of contemporary Cuban art representing the contributions of more than 125 artists, and North America’s largest exhibition of work from the Northern European CoBrA avant-garde movement.
Spanish artists include Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Juan Genovés, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí