Travel Journal 07: Washington DC - Interior Details of the American Art Museum

I was not willing to be let down by a lousy museum on my last day in DC. So, we tried a museum that clearly was “out of the way” – the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This is a new extension of the Smithsonian and clearly when you enter the building – what was once the US Patent Office – you will see corridors and open floors with modular High Density Movable Shelving on wheels. Like a filing room of a law firm. The filing cabinets are all upright, from ceiling to floor. But this one had paintings and various artwork stored in cabinets.

I was fascinated by the cupola, tilework, floor pattern and painstaking restoration they made to the interior of this building. It was just beautiful.