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Portrait InSight: Verbal Description Tour

Sun, Oct 18 · 10:30 AM National Portrait Gallery · Penn Quarter

This educator-guided gallery talk combines detailed verbal description with multisensory engagement and group conversation. We'll explore select portraits in the America's Presidents exhibition, including tactile reproductions of President Abraham Lincoln's face masks.

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