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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
The
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
is an
art museum
beside the
National Mall
, in
Washington, D.C.
, the
United States
. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of
Joseph H. Hirshhorn
. It was designed by
architect
Gordon Bunshaft
and is part of the
Smithsonian Institution
. It was conceived as the United States' museum of
contemporary
and
modern art
and currently focuses its collection-building and exhibition-planning mainly on the post–
World War II
period, with particular emphasis on art made during the last 50 years.
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