National Gallery of Art

A $321.8 million award ledger for a federal museum

The National Gallery of Art on the National Mall is a federally administered museum. USAspending does not appraise paintings. It records awards the Gallery made. $321,844,777.68 through FY2026 is that obligation stock. Building systems, art handling, information technology, and visitor-service contracts can all sit inside the same total. Acquisition prices for works of art are not automatically the same rows; only awards that entered the USAspending warehouse appear.

Eight hundred twenty-one awards is a substantial operations book for a single museum campus. It is denser than a handful of giant facilities vehicles and thinner than a high-volume national grant catalog. The Gallery’s public identity is the collection; this table’s identity is the 821 award records.

Average obligation near $392,000

Dividing $321,844,777.68 by 821 produces about $392,016 per award. Facilities and security vehicles can be large; small conservation purchases sit in the other tail. Without a median in the packet, the ratio is the only summary statistic available. Readers who need a single contractor’s ceiling have to open award-level USAspending records.

Place of performance will often resolve to the District of Columbia because the campus is there. The state table can still show other jurisdictions when vendors, warehouses, or traveling-exhibition partners are tagged elsewhere. That is a location-field result, not a second museum.

Questions

How much has the National Gallery of Art obligated on USAspending?

USAspending.gov shows $321,844,777.68 in National Gallery of Art obligations through FY2026 across 821 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 3302 is the filter. The total is not a valuation of the art collection. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 3302 is the source for the current 821-award book.

What is the average Gallery award?

Dividing $321,844,777.68 by 821 awards yields about $392,016. The packet has no median. Large facilities or security contracts can raise the mean above many smaller purchase orders. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What does agency code 3302 mean?

3302 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the National Gallery of Art. SpendingVault’s /agencies/3302/ path uses that code. The Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian are separate awarding agencies. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Does $321.8 million include private donations to the Gallery?

Only if those funds were issued as federal awards in the USAspending extract. Private gifts that never become federal awards are outside the 821-row total. The packet does not split trust versus appropriated dollars. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.