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Gallery Place-Chinatown |website = (americanart.si.edu ) }}The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C. which has one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art, from the colonial period to the present, made in the United States. The museum has more than 7,000 artists represented in the collection, which contains the largest collection of New Deal art; a collection of contemporary craft, American impressionist paintings, and masterpieces from the Gilded Age; photography, modern folk art, works by African American and Latino artists, images of western expansion, and realist art from the first half of the twentieth century. Most exhibitions take place in the museum's main building, the old Patent Office Building, while craft-focused exhibitions are shown in the museum's Renwick Gallery. The museum provides electronic resources to schools and the public through its national education program, including ''Artful Connections'', real-time video conference tours. It maintains seven online research databases with more than 500,000 records, including the Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture that document more than 400,000 artworks in public and private collections worldwide. Since 1951, the museum has maintained a traveling exhibition program; as of 2013, more than 2.5 million visitors have seen the exhibitions. ==Overview== The American Art's main building, a National Historic Landmark located in Washington, DC's downtown cultural district, has been renovated with expanded permanent-collection galleries and public spaces.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.americanart.si.edu/visit/about/ )〕 The Luce Foundation Center for American Art is a visible art storage and study center, which allows visitors to browse more than 3,300 works of the collection.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.americanart.si.edu/visit/about/ )〕 The Lunder Conservation Center is "the first art conservation facility to allow the public permanent behind-the-scenes views of the preservation work of museums."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.americanart.si.edu/visit/about/ )〕 In 2008, the American Alliance of Museums awarded reaccreditation to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.americanart.si.edu/pr/facts/museum_fact_sheet.pdf )〕 As of 2014, Elizabeth Broun is Director of the museum. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Smithsonian American Art Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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