Collection Spotlights

View curated sets of collection items. Many of the collection items feature stories from our experts and curators.

Embroidery of the alphabet above a house with trees and a partially fenced lawn.

American Samplers

Yellow Calla

American Women Artists

photograph of Dorothea Lange

American Women Photographers and Selected Works

Zora Neale Hurston stamp

American Women Writers—and Readers

Nellie Bly on 37 cent postage stamp

American Women in Journalism and Media

kids in garden

Anacostia Community Museum 50th Anniversary

A painting of children playing on a street in Anacostia

Anacostia, Our Neighborhood

Andy Warhol @Smithsonian

tall bronze vessel with mold pieces around it

Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings

Apollo 11 Object Group

Apollo 11

Apollo 11 Crew Hatch

Apollo 11

3 children in a wicker baby carriage with an American flag.

Arab American Heritage Month

Dissected wooden sphere laid flat, taking the form of an 8-pointed star.

Arithmetic Teaching Apparatus

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird at the National Air and Space Museum

Art of Aerial Spying

Art of Frank Gasparro: 10th United States Mint Chief Engraver

Soldiers on the telephone.

Art of Soldiers and War

tabby cat illustration

Artful Cats: Feline-Inspired Art and Artifacts

Artists' Books

Arts and Industries Building

Arts and Industries Building in the Collections

Video Flag

Asian American Artists and Selected Works

Shimomura Crossing the Delaware

Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage in the Collections

grid image of 4 garments

Asian Pacific American Collection

Seiji Ozawa

Asian Pacific American Heritage and Music Collections Sampler

Autumn woods painting.

Autumn Views: Art That Captures the Mood, Color, and Light of the Fall Season

School bus in front of the American History Museum.

Back to School Days

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