Native American Heritage Month
Join us for vibrant performances, lectures, family activities, and exhibitions.
What’s On
Featured events and exhibitions
Featured Exhibitions
With more than two hundred exhibitions to choose from,
we've highlighted select exhibitions from across our museums and zoo.
What's New
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Making Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial
November 2, 2024 – August 10, 2025 Cooper Hewitt
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Japanese Art from the Collection
October 26, 2024 – Ongoing Freer Gallery of Art
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return
October 18, 2024 – July 6, 2025 Portrait Gallery
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NASA’s Earth Information Center @ NMNH
October 8, 2024 Through 2028 Natural History Museum
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OSGEMEOS: Endless Story
September 29, 2024 – August 3, 2025 Hirshhorn
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Basquiat × Banksy
September 29, 2024 – October 26, 2025 Hirshhorn
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An Epic of Kings: The Great Mongol Shahnama
September 21, 2024 – January 12, 2025 Sackler Gallery
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Sublime Light: Tapestry Art of DY Begay
September 20, 2024 – July 13, 2025 American Indian Museum
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Dazzling Diversity
September 10, 2024 – December 16, 2025 Natural History Museum
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Sightlines: Chinatown and Beyond
September 7, 2024 – November 20, 2025 American Art Museum
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Voting by Mail: Civil War to Covid-19
August 24, 2024 – February 23, 2025 Postal Museum
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Island
August 16, 2024 – May 4, 2025 American Art Museum
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Glenn Kaino: Bridge
July 26, 2024 – Ongoing American Art Museum
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Road Warriors/Guerreros de la carretera
July 23, 2024 – Fall/Winter 2026 American History Museum
Opening Soon
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The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture
November 8, 2024 – September 14, 2025 American Art Museum
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Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo
November 15, 2024 – August 17, 2025 American Art Museum
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The Print Generation
November 16, 2024 – April 27, 2025 Sackler Gallery
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In Slavery's Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World
December 13, 2024 – June 8, 2025 African American History and Culture Museum
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Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen
April 4, 2025 – January 3, 2027 Hirshhorn
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The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today
May 3, 2025 – March 1, 2026 Portrait Gallery
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Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight
Anticipated to Open in 2025 – Permanent Air and Space Museum
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Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall
Anticipated to Open in 2025 – Permanent Air and Space Museum
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Amy Sherald: American Sublime
September 19, 2025 – February 22, 2026 Portrait Gallery
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Flight and the Arts Center
Anticipated to Open in 2026 – Indefinitely Air and Space Museum
Closing Soon
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Commissioned Portrait of Oprah Winfrey
December 13, 2023 – December 15, 2024 Portrait Gallery
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Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women
May 31, 2024 – January 5, 2025 Renwick Gallery
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Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of Life
July 14, 2023 – January 5, 2025 Hirshhorn
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Baseball: America's Homerun
April 9, 2022 – January 5, 2025 Postal Museum
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From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson
April 29, 2023 – January 6, 2025 African Art Museum
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An Epic of Kings: The Great Mongol Shahnama
September 21, 2024 – January 12, 2025 Sackler Gallery
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Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross
June 21, 2024 – January 21, 2025 African Art Museum
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Voting by Mail: Civil War to Covid-19
August 24, 2024 – February 23, 2025 Postal Museum
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Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939
April 26, 2024 – February 23, 2025 Portrait Gallery
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Bold and Beautiful Vision: A Century of Black Arts Education in Washington, DC, 1900–2000
March 23, 2024 – March 2, 2025 Anacostia Community Museum
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Artists at Work
March 20, 2024 – March 21, 2025 S. Dillon Ripley Center
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Music HerStory: Women and Music of Social Change
June 22, 2022 – March 24, 2025 American History Museum
Don't Miss
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Sightlines: Chinatown and Beyond
September 7, 2024 – November 20, 2025 American Art Museum
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Benin Bronzes
June 3, 2024 – Indefinitely African Art Museum
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Cellphone: Unseen Connections
June 23, 2023 Through 2026 Natural History Museum
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Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery
April 19, 2023 – June 8, 2025 Renwick Gallery
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One World Connected
October 14, 2022 – Permanent Air and Space Museum
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The Peacock Room Comes to America
September 3, 2022 – Indefinitely Freer Gallery of Art
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Music HerStory: Women and Music of Social Change
June 22, 2022 – March 24, 2025 American History Museum
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¡Presente! A Latino History of the United States
June 18, 2022 – Indefinitely American History Museum
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The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room
March 5, 2022 – Ongoing Sackler Gallery
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Laurie Anderson: Four Talks
September 24, 2021 – Ongoing Hirshhorn
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Americans
January 18, 2018 – Indefinitely American Indian Museum
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Mark Bradford: Pickett's Charge
November 8, 2017 – Ongoing Hirshhorn
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America's Presidents
September 22, 2017 – Permanent Portrait Gallery
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American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
June 28, 2017 – Permanent American History Museum
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Musical Crossroads
September 24, 2016 – Permanent African American History and Culture Museum
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Slavery and Freedom
September 24, 2016 – Permanent African American History and Culture Museum
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Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations
September 21, 2014 – January 17, 2028 American Indian Museum
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The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem
November 21, 2008 – Permanent American History Museum
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Cold War Aviation
December 15, 2003 – Permanent Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center
Kids' Favorites
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Really BIG Money
April 8, 2022 – Indefinitely American History Museum
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The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time
June 8, 2019 – Permanent Natural History Museum
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Explore! with the National Portrait Gallery
January 28, 2017 – Indefinitely Portrait Gallery
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Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
September 24, 2016 – Indefinitely African American History and Culture Museum
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Wegmans Wonderplace
December 9, 2015 – Indefinitely American History Museum
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African Elephant
September 4, 2015 – Permanent Natural History Museum
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Patrick F. Taylor Foundation Object Project
July 1, 2015 – Permanent American History Museum
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Spark!Lab
July 1, 2015 – Indefinitely American History Museum
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American Trail
September 1, 2012 – Permanent National Zoo
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As We Grow: Traditions, Toys, Games
August 22, 2012 – Permanent American Indian Museum
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Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt
November 17, 2011 – Permanent Natural History Museum
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Sant Ocean Hall
September 27, 2008 – Permanent Natural History Museum
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Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution
Natural History Museum
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Human Spaceflight
November 1, 2004 – Permanent Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center
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Kids' Farm
June 12, 2004 – Permanent National Zoo
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America on the Move
November 22, 2003 – Permanent American History Museum
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Kenneth E. Behring Family Hall of Mammals
November 15, 2003 – Permanent Natural History Museum
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Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
September 20, 1997 – Permanent Natural History Museum
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Insect Zoo, O. Orkin
September 10, 1993 – Permanent Natural History Museum
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Moving the Mail
July 30, 1993 – Permanent Postal Museum
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The Dolls' House
Opened 1951 – Indefinitely American History Museum
