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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, 한국어, and 中文.

West Building Tour: Featured Selections

An artist, an ecologist, a poet, a chef, a ballet dancer – and more! Discover notable people exploring the many stories revealed in art from the National Gallery’s rich collections.

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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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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