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American Art/Portrait Gallery Library

Smithsonian American Art Museum/ National Portrait Gallery Library
Victor Building, Suite 2100
750 9th St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. DC 20560-0975
USA
Telephone: 202.633.8230
Fax: 202.633.8232
Email:libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/aapg/ (launches new window)
The collection of 150,000 books, exhibition catalogs, catalogues raisonnes, serials and dissertations is concentrated in the area of American art, history, and biography with supportive materials on European art.

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Library (New York, N.Y.)

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Branch
2 E. 91st Street
New York, NY 10128-9990
Tel: 212.849.8330
Fax: 212.849.8339
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/chm/ (launches new window)
The Library, known since 1976 as The Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Study Center, contains 60,000 volumes which document and support the Museum's collection of 250,000 objects in decorative arts including textiles, wall coverings, metalwork, furniture, ceramics, glass, jewelry, and prints and drawings.

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library

Freer and Sackler Library
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
1050 Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20560-0112
USA
Telephone: 202.633.0477
Fax: 202.786.2936
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.asia.si.edu/visitor/library.htm (launches new window)
Today, the library is the finest Asian art library in the United States. It contains approximately 80,000 monograph volumes and 1,400 serials titles. Almost half of its printed resources are in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. The library's collection is especially strong in research materials on Japanese ceramics, painting, and woodblock prints.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
7th Street at Independence Avenues, S.W.
Washington, DC 20560
Telephone: 202.633.2773
Fax: 202.786.2682
E-mail: hmsglibmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.hmsg.si.edu/education/research.html (launches new window)
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library, founded in 1969, is a research collection devoted to modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, and to a lesser degree photography, video, and emerging art forms. The Library has books and related materials (exhibition catalogs, auction catalogs, serials, and ephemeral material) from 1880 to the present, reflecting the artists in the museum collection and its exhibition program.

Warren M. Robbins Library, National Museum of African Art

National Museum of African Art Library
National Museum of African Art, Rm. 2138
950 Independence Avenue SW
Washington, D.C. 20560-0708
USA
Telephone: 202.633.4680
Fax: 202.357.4879
Email: libmail@si.edu
Website: http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/nmafa/ (launches new window)
The Warren M. Robbins Library, National Museum of African Art has more than 27,000 volumes and covers all aspects of African visual arts, including sculpture, painting, printmaking, pottery, textiles, crafts, popular culture, photography, architecture, rock art, and archaeology.