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We’re back! Innovative and engaging learning experiences are the hallmark of our reimagined offerings. Check out our program overviews. Visit our new NPG Education Center: this expansive first floor space is the perfect place for a culminating activity after interactive tours, Saturday art sessions, teacher workshops, and youth and family activities. Please revisit this Web site often for updates.
We look forward to seeing you!
Carol Wyrick
Education Program Director
Gallery Educators
Gallery Educators are vibrant and dedicated people who make significant contributions to the National Portrait Gallery’s mission of education. They work within NPG’s Education Department, which is a vital link between the Gallery and its diverse public. We call our approach to programming “walk, talk, think, and do.” As the face of the Education Department, Gallery Educators facilitate this approach, engaging and exciting young visitors through the medium of portraiture while relaying pertinent historical, biographical, and cultural information about images on display at NPG.
 Learn more about becoming a Gallery Educator
Internships
The National Portrait Gallery, as a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution, offers formal internships to qualified applicants. A Smithsonian internship is a prearranged, structured learning experience that takes place within a specific time period, usually two to three months. The experience should be relevant both to the intern's academic and professional goals and to the professional disciplines represented at the Smithsonian.
Learn more about internships at NPG
 Portraits of Character
(elementary, middle, and high school levels)
The Office of Education produces Portraits of Character as a newspaper feature in partnership with the Washington Times. This biographical feature includes a portrait from the permanent collection and a related story about the sitter. Portraits of Character can be viewed and printed online or downloaded as PDF files.
Learn more about this program
Exhibition Resources
The Portrait Gallery has a variety of resources for school and community audiences that have been developed to complement our exhibitions. Resources can be viewed and printed online or downloaded as PDF files.
Learn more about this program
 George Washington: A National Treasure
(all grade levels)
For the first time in history, the National Portrait Gallery is taking its famous and iconic 1796 portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart on the road. The educational component of the tour includes a website—which offers a curriculum guide for all grade levels—a quality reproduction of the painting, and copies of The Patriot Papers, an NPG-developed classroom newspaper and teaching tool.
Visit http://www.georgewashington.si.edu for ordering information
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CONTACT US
 Phone: (202) 275-1824
FAX: (202) 275-1904
 E-mail: NPGEducation@si.edu
Mailing Address:
Office of Education
National Portrait Gallery
P.O. Box
37012
Washington, D.C. 20013-0712
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EDUCATION AT THE SMITHSONIAN
The Smithsonian has twenty five education offices through out its museums, offices and centers. Each office coordinates with educators to enhance teaching with museum education and give direct access to primary sources.
Smithsonian Education
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