I really want to go to an art museum. I haven't been to one for a while and I think I'm having a museum withdrawl. Anyways, I decided to share one the most famous art museums around the World. " The Smithsonian" museum in Washington, DC. This museum is said to be the world's largest with 16 other complex and research organized museums under it's roof. It has the African Art Museum which showcases "the finest examples of traditional and contemporary art from the entire continent of Africa." These are two examples of African Art at The Smithsonian Museum.
Another museum under the Smithsonian Museum is the American Art Museum. This museum has artworks including: paintings, sculpture, photographs, folk art, and decorative arts from the colonial period to today. Amazing! The Freer Gallery of Art holds Asian art from the neolithic times to the early 20th century, as well as world most important artwork collection of work by James McNeil Whistler. For example: chinese paintings, Indian Sculptures, Islamic painting and metalware, Japanese lacquer, Korean Ceramics, etc. Whew!
If all of this art doesn't convince you that your next trip should inclue "The Smithsonian" I don't know what will. There are several other departments of museums that make up The Smithsonian, which are seperately put to provide the rich history of these art museums I've mentioned to the public because there is too much to cover in one museum. I think It will definitley be worth it! 
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