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Smithsonian Celebrates the 2009 Presidential Inauguration with Exhibits and Programs
- January 12, 2009
National Zoo Has a New Baby Gorilla
- January 12, 2009
- National Zoo & SCBI
National Museum of African Art Hosts Programs and Exhibits to Commemorate Inauguration
- January 9, 2009
- African Art Museum
National Portrait Gallery Acquires Shepard Fairey’s Portrait of President-elect Barack Obama
- January 7, 2009
- Portrait Gallery
National Museum of American History to Open “Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life”
- January 5, 2009
- American History Museum
“The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise” Photography Exhibition Opens at the Smithsonian Jan. 30
- January 5, 2009
- African American Museum
- American History Museum
The Nature Conservancy and the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Present “Design for a Living World”
- December 22, 2008
- Cooper Hewitt
“A Thousand Kisses: Love Letters from the Archives of American Art”
- December 19, 2008
- Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition of Avedon’s Photographs of President-elect Kennedy and Family Coming to Riverside, Calif.
- December 19, 2008
- American History Museum
- Traveling Exhibition Service
National Portrait Gallery to Present President and Mrs. Bush’s Portraits
- December 18, 2008
- Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian National Postal Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian Launch a New Online Collection
- December 18, 2008
- American Indian Museum
- Postal Museum
Tony Bennett Donates Painting of Duke Ellington to the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
- December 17, 2008
- Portrait Gallery
“Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake” Opens Feb. 7 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History
- December 16, 2008
- Natural History Museum
Freer and Sackler Galleries Launch First Online Collection Catalogue about Mainland Southeast Asian Ceramics
- December 16, 2008
Smithsonian Craft Show Announces Artists Selected for 27th Annual Exhibition and Sale: “Telling America’s Story through the Art of Craft”
- December 15, 2008
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Marks the Fifth Anniversary of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
- December 15, 2008
- Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Scientists Rearrange Hawaii’s Bird Family Tree
- December 11, 2008
- National Zoo & SCBI
- Natural History Museum
Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum Presents “Jubilee: African American Celebration”
- December 10, 2008
- Anacostia Community Museum
“Puerto Rican Art Now—with Antonio Martorell” Presented at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum Dec. 12
- December 10, 2008
- American Latino Museum
- Public Programs
Endangered Bird Dies at Smithsonian’s National Zoo
- December 10, 2008
- National Zoo & SCBI
Original Site-specific Works by Artists from Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo Go on View in “Artists in Dialogue” at National Museum of African Art
- December 8, 2008
- African Art Museum
2008 Shimada Prize Winner Patricia Berger Presents “Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China” at Freer Meyer Auditorium
- December 8, 2008
“First Ladies at the Smithsonian” Exhibition Opens at National Museum of American History
- December 8, 2008
- American History Museum
Smithsonian Celebrates the 2009 Presidential Inauguration with a Series of Exhibitions
- December 8, 2008
- American Art Museum
- American History Museum
- American Indian Museum
- Portrait Gallery
- Postal Museum
- American Art Museum

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