About this vendor
The National Museum of Women in the Arts venue in Washington, DC, offers the perfect setting to make your wedding or event unforgettable. The museum's special events staff will happily advise you on how best to use the space. This beautiful Renaissance Revival building and the collection of art make for a memorable space.
The National Museum of Women in the Arts has four main spaces, including the Great Hall and Mezzanine, the Elisabeth A. Kasser Board Room, the Third Floor Gallery, and the Performance Hall. Each of these rooms boasts stunning interiors and opulent chandelier lighting that exudes elegance and refinement. With the largest space accommodating over 300 guests, it is the perfect location for lavish occasions. They also have a dance floor, entertainment space, and wheelchair access, allowing everyone to enjoy your special day to the fullest.
Amenities + details
Ceremony Area
Dressing Room
Handicap Accessible
Indoor Event Space
Liability Insurance
Reception Area
Wireless Internet
Covered Outdoors Space
On-Site Accommodations
Outdoor Event Space
Ceremony Types
- Civil Union
- Commitment Ceremony
- Elopement
- Interfaith Ceremony
- Non-Religious Ceremony
- Religious Ceremony
Settings
- Museum
Venue Service Offerings
- Planning
Reviews
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The venue is stunning and the whole team was fantastic to work with. Very responsive, worked great with us and our planners. We loved having the cocktail hour in the 3rd floor gall...
ery. Dinner on the mezzanine with dancing on the ground floor worked super well. Absolutely loved it!
We looked at several venues before deciding on NMWA. We loved the grandeur of the great hall combined with the cool and weird art. Our guests were blown away by the beauty of the s...
pace and loved being able to explore the third floor gallery during cocktail hour.
Becca was great to work with. She was responsive to emails and joined us on our visits to the museum. Because it's a museum, there are a number of rules and restrictions, but we didn't feel that they impeded our ability to create an amazing wedding. We had to pick some vendors off their preferred vendor list, but they all turned out to be great to work with, as well.
We fell in love with NMWA museum the second we saw it. We had been struggling to find a place in DC that met all of our needs and budget. NMWA was worth every penny. The staff was ...
super helpful in answering our questions throughout the process. They also have a long list of recommended vendors with different price points. Our friends and family were blown away by how beautiful everything was.
When choosing wedding reception venues in DC there are a lot of great options, but I couldn't be happier that we went with the National Museum of Women in the Arts. A truly elegant...
and gorgeous space, the Women's Museum was the perfect size and definitely a unique spot with the art galleries and second floor mezzanine. Guests couldn't get over the beautiful chandeliers and had so much fun taking photos there. We choose to have our cocktail hour on the mezzanine level followed by dinner/ dancing on the first floor. The staff here were very helpful in the planning process and providing their recommended vendors. The night felt like a fairy tale!
The National Museum of Women in the Arts was the perfect venue for us! The space itself is stunning, and the staff incredibly professional. We couldn’t have asked for more.
The ...
Museum is gorgeous. The pictures hint at it, but it is a beautiful collection of marble and light, with fantastic chandeliers and open spaces. (When we were touring venues, we snapped a few casual pictures on our phone, and they turned out fantastic. That was a hint at just how wonderful the space looks, and how easy it was to photograph.) We had our wedding ceremony on the ground floor, and it was just perfect. Plenty of room for our guests to sit comfortably, a grand staircase to walk down, and absolutely beautiful views and acoustics. We then moved to the cocktail hour on the mezzanine, where our guests had plenty of space to walk around and enjoy. Finally, we moved back downstairs for dinner and dancing. Again, there was plenty of space, and such a beautiful setting.
The Museum staff was also great to work with. Meredith was our main contact, and she was constantly responsive, professional, and easy to work with. The security staff and other contacts were also great to work with - present without being obtrusive.
We couldn’t have asked for a better venue or staff.
We loved the NMWA as our wedding venue! It is a beautiful space and is one of the aspects our guests have complimented the most. We had the ceremony in the great hall, cocktails in...
the third floor gallery, dinner on the mezzanine, and dancing again in the great hall. Our guests loved cocktails in the gallery to enjoy the art; it was special and a great way to move around the space since the ceremony and reception were in the same place. Dinner on the mezzanine was elegant. One of the things we loved most about the space is you're always around all of your guests, in the same space.
Katie and Lori at the museum were also fabulous to work with - super responsive and professional.
Dream wedding! You can't ask for a more beautiful space. It's an awesome way to experience DC, without any stress of weather, and to accommodate over 150 people (hard to find in DC...
). We had our ceremony in the main ballroom, cocktail hour in the 3rd floor art gallery, dinner on the mezzanine and dancing back in the main ballroom. The museum did a flawless job. Allowed me to walk through the space anytime leading up to the wedding. Answered all questions immediately. Book as soon as you can!
SUCH A BEAUTIFUL VENUE! The ballroom was so beautiful on it's own that it really saved me a lot of money on decorations! So much better than a boring hotel ballroom! Also they gav...
e me a military discount which was fantastic!
The NMWA is probably the best, most impressive, beautiful, and centrally-located wedding venue in the DC area. Although we had to wait almost 2 years to lock down a date for our we...
dding, I don't regret our choice to have our wedding at the NMWA FOR A SECOND. It's such a beautiful space that you have to do very little to make it picture perfect for the wedding. And our guests were so impressed by having cocktail hour on the 3rd floor gallery. Thank you to the entire NMWA team for your help!
We knew as soon as we walked in that we had to have our wedding here. We chose a Friday night in November to make it more affordable and did not use the main art gallery for our c...
ocktail hour to save some money, too. But we did pay for extra security to allow our guests to walk around both the permanent collection and the traveling Women That Rock exhibit, which was priceless and loved by our guests. I can't say enough about this space. Uniquely Washington, and walking down the marble staircase with my parents toward my future husband was truly a dream come true. It was the perfect, classy, Old Hollywood venue. Location in Metro Center can't be beat, either. Worth every penny.
The Women's Museum is stunning and I am so happy to have had our wedding there. It provides a great backdrop for a wedding and our friends loved posing with the artwork. All of o...
ur guests said how beautiful they thought it was.
We had our wedding here in August and I couldn't have been happier. I looked at over 50 places and as soon as I saw this place I fell in love. We had our ceremony downstairs, the...
cocktail hour on the mezzanine, and then dinner and dancing back downstairs. The place is more on the expensive side but it's definitely worth it [some of the cost is also tax deductible :)] And unlike some of the other museums in DC, they didn't have a ton of restrictions. I worked with Elise and Lori and they were both great and very responsive to all my emails and questions. Highly, highly recommend!!
Contact
1250 New York Avenue Nw, Washington, DC
National Museum of Women in the Arts