Museum Hours

Tuesday to Sunday

10 am to 5 pm

Evening Hours: Stay late from 5 to 8 pm on the third Wednesday of the month.

Holiday Closures: NMWA is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.

Library Hours

Tuesday to Friday

10 am to 4:30 pm

The Library and Research Center will be closed Friday, December 1st.

Café Hours

The Mezzanine Café will reopen soon. Please check back for updates.

Community Days

Enjoy free admission on the first Sunday and second Wednesday of every month.

Tickets

Adult: $16
Adult 70+: $13
DC Resident: $13
Member: Free
21 and Under: Free
Visitor with Disabilities and Personal Care Attendant: Free

Buy Tickets

NMWA members at the Advocate level and above visit for free!

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Getting Here

Link to google maps. Map of the streets surrounding the museum in Washington D.C. A purple icon indicates the location of the museum.

Museum Address

1250 New York Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20005

Use the goDCgo interactive map to plan your trip via bus, metro, bicycle rental, and more.

Transportation Options

The closest Metro stations to the museum are Metro Center (Red, Blue, Orange, and Silver lines) or Gallery Place-Chinatown (Red, Green, and Yellow lines). Visit the WMATA website for detailed maps, schedules, and the latest updates.

Travel by bus routes 80, G8, S2, S4, X2, D6, D3, 68, D1, and 42 to the corner of H and 13th Streets, NW. Visit the WMATA website for detailed maps and schedules.

Since metered street parking is minimal, reserve your parking with SpotHero, the nation’s leading parking reservation app. Visitors can purchase guaranteed parking at nearby parking garages with rates up to 50% off drive-up. Once purchased, present your purchase confirmation at the selected location (this serves as your payment). Parking is guaranteed even if the location is otherwise filled.

Museum Guide

View floor-by-floor information showing highlights of the museum.

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Abstract painting composed of brightly colored, lozenge-shaped brushstrokes in vertical stripes of navy, purple, turquoise, yellow, orange and red.The overall effect is as if the painting was collaged out of torn pieces of paper, with the white of the canvas showing through. — Alma Woodsey Thomas, *Iris, Tulips, Jonquils, and Crocuses* (detail), 1969; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay; © Estate of Alma Woodsey Thomas; Photo by Cameron Robinson

Additional Visitor Information

Tips for Your Visit

To help make sure your visit to the museum is a positive experience, we’ve compiled a list of helpful information.

Visitor Guidelines

A modern museum gallery is photographed at a wide angle. It features several inset bays in which art of various sizes and mediums is hung. Visitors walk through the galleries and observe the works.

Accessibility

As you plan your visit to NMWA, check out our on-site accessibility offerings.

Accessibility at NMWA

Two people look up at a large peach, tan, and ivory art installation in a gallery. The person with medium skin tone and tattoos on their right arm sits in a wheelchair and wears a red t-shirt, gray pants, gray-and-black striped winter hat, and black face mask. A person with medium skin tone, long curly black hair stands behind, wearing a burnt orange tank top, black jeans, and a black face mask. A large checkered blue artwork unfolds onto the gallery floor behind the pair.

Things to Do

Calendar

Check out our wide range of program offerings both at the museum and online.

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Exhibitions

An etching of a Chinese woman working at a wooden loom. Three colorful birds sit in the foreground of the print in front of the loom. Above the loom hovers a dream-like figure of a Chinese person wearing a long yellow robe. The figure is riding on a mystical red bird.

Discover exhibitions showcasing work by established and emerging women artists from around the world.

View Exhibitions

Collection

A horizontal canvas combines collaged paper, such as a scrap of a U.S. map, comic strip, and pictographs; cloth swatches; scrawled and dripped paint; and phrases like “It takes hard work to keep racism alive” and “Oh! Zone.” The work’s title appears in red paint right of center.

Explore highlights from the museum’s collection, spanning more than 5,500 works from the Renaissance through today.

Explore the Collection

Tours

Learn about the contributions of women artists and the museum’s unique mission on engaging, interactive tours for visitors of all ages.

Book a Tour

Shop & Eat

Three clear glass shelves, packed with colorful products on display. The top two shelves are full of Frida Kahlo-themed items—books, dolls, cards, and more. The bottom shelf is full of Louise Bourgeois-themed items—teapots, a sleep mask, books, mugs, and more.

Shop a curated collection of creative products from women-owned businesses in our Museum Shop.

Learn about the Shop

Library

Two books, Fired Up! Ready to Go and I Was Their American Dream, rest on a tabletop, along with a small vase of pink and lavender flowers.

The Library and Research Center holds a special collection of books and exhibition catalogues, artist files, manuscript collections, and more materials on women artists.

Learn about the Library

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