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The institution began calling its collection the National Gallery of Art in 1906. Congress granted the National Collection of Fine Arts a home in 1958, and the museum opened in this new space on the 6th of May 1968 after renovation work began in 1964.
The museum occupies the Old Patent Office Building which was about to be vacated by the U.S. Civil Service Commission. The building is situated next to the Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C., United States.
More than 7,000 artists are represented within the museum's permanent collection today with holdings spanning all regions and art movements found throughout the United States. SAAM contains the world's largest collection of New Deal art available anywhere alongside significant collections of contemporary craft and American impressionist paintings.
The six-year restoration cost $283 million total. Plans broadened during construction to restore much of the building's original elegance including porticos modeled after the Parthenon in Athens and curving double staircases.
The Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture reopened on the 1st of July 2006. This reopening followed a three-year closure that began in January 2000 for a $60-million renovation project.