Experts' Choice Award The Phillips Collection
What the experts agree on
America's first modern art museum, set in a gracious Dupont Circle mansion. Experts love its intimate, unhurried feel and top-tier collection—Renoir, Matisse, Picasso—housed in a residential setting rather than a sprawling institution.
“The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded in 1921 by Duncan and Marjorie Phillips.”
– On the Grid
Concierge "The nation's first contemporary-art museum, the personal collection of Duncan and Marjorie Phillips is housed in a Georgian Revival mansion near Dupont Circle."
Frommer's "Pieces from the permanent collection are on display in the 1897 building, which retains the feel of a gracious home, with its leaded- and stained-glass windows." Full review
Lonely PlanetTop choice
"Immaculately designed and dappled with some of the best creativity you’ll ever see for free." Full review
Travel + Leisure "The nearly 100-year-old Phillips Collection showcases modern art and impressionist paintings." Full review
Michelin Guide 3 Stars
"The Phillips Collection, the nation's first museum of modern art, maintains a choice collection of some 3,000 outstanding works by prominent American and European artists." Full review
Where "The country’s first museum of modern art (1921) provides an intimate setting for a renowned collection: Renoir, Cézanne, Bonnard, Matisse, Daumier, Manet, El Greco, Miró, Monet, O’Keeffe and Picasso." Full review
Fodor's "With its setting on a quiet residential street and its low-key elegance, the Phillips Collection offers unhurried access to its first-rate collection of masterpieces from the 19th century and later." Full review
