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  • Bold and Beautiful Vision: A Century of Black Arts Education in Washington, DC, 1900–2000

    Traces the story of the teachers and students who made Washington, D.C., a truly unparalleled center for Black arts education.

    March 23, 2024 – January 4, 2026

    Anacostia Community Museum

  • Sightlines: Chinatown and Beyond

    Sightlines: Chinatown and Beyond highlights the imprint of Asian Americans on the physical and cultural terrain of Washington, D.C.

    September 7, 2024 – November 30, 2025

    American Art Museum

  • My Computing Device

    My Computing Device showcases the complex story of how Americans came to use and own computers.

    August 28, 2019 – August 25, 2025

    American History Museum

  • John Akomfrah: Five Murmurations

    Five Mumurations considers Akomfrah’s insights into post-colonialism, diasporic experience, and memory.

    October 14, 2023 – August 24, 2025

    African Art Museum

  • ¡De última hora!: Latinas Report Breaking News

    Working in the fast-paced, ever-changing environment of broadcast news, these women shaped and shape the narrative for major historical events.

    September 15, 2023 – August 17, 2025

    American History Museum

  • ¡Presente! A Latino History of the United States

    The inaugural exhibition of the Molina Famliy Gallery, ¡Presente! A Latino History of the United States, reveals how Latinos have shaped the nation since before its founding.

    June 18, 2022 – July 20, 2025

    American History Museum

  • Sublime Light: Tapestry Art of DY Begay

    Sublime Light celebrates more than three decades of innovation by DY Begay and showcases 48 of her most remarkable tapestries.

    September 20, 2024 – July 13, 2025

    American Indian Museum DC

  • Forensic Science on Trial

    Explore historic cases where science has entered the courtroom and see how forensic science is used in the pursuit of justice.

    June 28, 2024 – July 6, 2025

    American History Museum

  • Picturing the Presidents: Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes from the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection

    To mark the presidential election of 2024, this exhibition presents daguerreotype and ambrotype portraits of eight men–from John Quincy Adams to Chester Arthur–who held the nation’s highest office during the nineteenth century.

    May 31, 2024 – June 8, 2025

    Portrait Gallery

  • In Slavery's Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World

    In Slavery's Wake examines how we think about, talk about, and represent the history of slavery, race, and globalization.

    December 13, 2024 – June 8, 2025

    African American History and Culture Museum

  • Powerful Partnerships: Civil War-Era Couples

    This exhibition sheds light on the stories and faces of five couples whose work and lives shaped the nation around them during tumultuous times.

    July 1, 2022 – May 18, 2025

    Portrait Gallery

  • Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces

    This poignant exhibition tells personal stories of Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Alaska Native veterans who have served in the armed forces of the United States.

    June 17, 2024 – April 29, 2025

    American Indian Museum DC

  • This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance

    Viewing Baldwin in the context of his community reveals how his sexuality, faith, artistic curiosities, and notions of masculinity helped define his writing and long-lasting legacy.

    July 12, 2024 – April 20, 2025

    Portrait Gallery

  • Music HerStory: Women and Music of Social Change

    Music HerStory explores the countless contributions of women changemakers, groundbreakers, and tradition-bearers.

    June 22, 2022 – March 24, 2025

    American History Museum

  • Voting by Mail: Civil War to COVID-19

    The presidential election year is the appropriate time to reflect on past examples of national voting by mail.

    August 24, 2024 – February 23, 2025

    Postal Museum

  • Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939

    Brilliant Exiles illuminates the accomplishments of sixty unconventional women who pursued their personal and professional aspirations in Paris.

    April 26, 2024 – February 23, 2025

    Portrait Gallery

  • Inauguration 2025: Donald J. Trump

    A photograph of President-elect Donald J. Trump is displayed to coincide with the 60th presidential inauguration Jan. 20.

    January 13, 2025 – February 11, 2025

    Portrait Gallery

  • Gunboat Philadelphia

    Built in 1776, the gunboat Philadelphia is the oldest American fighting vessel in existence.

    July 3, 1965 – January 6, 2025

    American History Museum

  • Baseball: America's Homerun

    The National Postal Museum presents a blockbuster exhibition exploring America’s national pastime.

    April 9, 2022 – January 5, 2025

    Postal Museum

  • Reckoning with Remembrance: History, Injustice, and the Murder of Emmett Till

    This display of the defaced historical marker helps preserve the memory of Emmett Till while demonstrating the contested nature of racism’s violent legacy in America.

    April 6, 2024 – September 15, 2024

    American History Museum

  • Picturing Women Inventors

    Featuring stories of contemporary and historic women, this display of photos and graphics is dominated by lively, larger-than-life images of woman inventors.

    May 21, 2021 – September 11, 2024

    American History Museum

  • Nature of the Book

    Nature of the Book explores books of the hand-press era from the use of moveable type in Europe in about 1450 to the rise of mechanization in the 19th century.

    November 11, 2022 – September 3, 2024

    Natural History Museum

  • Dave's Dream

    Dave’s Dream is a modified 1969 Ford LTD known as a “lowrider” and named for David Jaramillo of Chimayo, New Mexico, who began customizing this car in the 1970s.

    May 27, 2022 – August 26, 2024

    American History Museum

  • Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection

    Learn how Cooper Hewitt acquires new work to shape the collection to better reflect current issues and design’s evolving role in daily interactions.

    March 16, 2024 – August 25, 2024

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures

    This exhibition explores and reveals Afrofuturism’s historic and poignant engagement with African American history and popular culture.

    March 24, 2023 – August 18, 2024

    African American History and Culture Museum


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