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With more than two hundred exhibitions to choose from, we've highlighted selections from across our museums and zoo. 

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    How Can You Forget Me: Filipino American Stories Added

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    How Can You Forget Me: Filipino American Stories

    Explore the overlooked history of a trailblazing Filipino community in California from the 1910s to the 1970s.

    December 23, 2025 – November 28, 2027

    American History Museum

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    Big Things for Big Rooms Added

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    Big Things for Big Rooms

    This presentation of 10 artworks traces the development of immersive, large-scale artworks since the late 1960s.

    December 20, 2025 – July 4, 2027

    Hirshhorn Museum

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    Devon Turnbull: HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3 Added

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    Devon Turnbull: HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3

    The listening room installation presents a large scale, handmade, audio system by multi-disciplinary artist Devon Turnbull.

    December 12, 2025 – July 19, 2026

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

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    Made In America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne Added

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    Made In America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne

    See more than 70 large-format photographs that celebrate the combination of human skill and mechanical precision that transform raw materials into objects.

    December 12, 2025 – October 4, 2026

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

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    Portrait of a Nation: 2025 Honorees Added

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    Portrait of a Nation: 2025 Honorees

    See the most recent recipients of the Portrait of a Nation Awards, which honors extraordinary individuals who have made transformative contributions to the United States and its people.

    December 12, 2025 – November 15, 2026

    Portrait Gallery

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    Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass Added

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    Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass

    Explore glass art as a medium for Indigenous stories, designs, and contemporary issues through 120 artworks by 29 Indigenous artists.

    November 28, 2025 – May 29, 2026

    American Indian Museum New York

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    Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work Added

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    Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work

    This exhibition introduces “Grandma” Moses to new generations and examines her legacy in the context of America today.

    November 25, 2025 – July 12, 2026

    American Art Museum

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    Water's Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe Added

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    Water's Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe

    Lowe’s elegant sculptures evoke the rivers, streams, and waterfalls of the Wisconsin woodlands where he was raised and the canoes used to traverse them.

    November 25, 2025 – January 1, 2027

    American Indian Museum DC

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    Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared Added

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    Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared

    Spanning ancient times to the present, the works featured in this exhibition embody the depth and diversity of Korea’s artistic legacy.

    November 15, 2025 – February 1, 2026

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

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    The Peacock Room in Blue and White Added

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    The Peacock Room in Blue and White

    Immerse yourself in the Peacock Room as it would have looked 150 years ago.

    September 27, 2025 – Ongoing

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

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    Corazón y vida: Lowriding Culture Added

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    Corazón y vida: Lowriding Culture

    This vibrant, bilingual exhibition showcases the unique car-making tradition of lowriding culture with photos, graphics, and two classic cars.

    September 26, 2025 – TBD

    American History Museum

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    American Winners: Athletes and Entertainers Who Shaped the Nation Added

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    American Winners: Athletes and Entertainers Who Shaped the Nation

    This exhibition salutes a diverse array of athletes and entertainers by presenting more than fifty works from the permanent collection.

    September 26, 2025 – September 7, 2026

    Portrait Gallery

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    At the Vanguard

    At the Vanguard weaves together stories of ingenuity, artistry and resistance—through collections from five Historically Black Colleges and Universities partners.

    January 16, 2026 – July 19, 2026

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art Added

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    Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art

    Explore how LGBTQ+ artists from Africa and its diaspora are part of a larger, joyful story of African art history.

    January 23, 2026 – August 23, 2026

    African Art Museum

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    The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today Added

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    The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today

    The Outwin 2025 features 35 portraits (by 36 artists) from the museum’s seventh triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.

    January 24, 2026 – August 30, 2026

    Portrait Gallery

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    Teen Portrait Competition, 2025 Added

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    Teen Portrait Competition, 2025

    A video presentation of photographs from the 19 finalists in the 2025 Teen Portrait Competition.

    January 24, 2026 – August 30, 2026

    Portrait Gallery

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    Nick Cave: Mammoth Added

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    Nick Cave: Mammoth

    Nick Cave envisions a world animated by the power of the past and the transformative possibilities of the imagination.

    February 13, 2026 – January 3, 2027

    American Art Museum

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    Art of Noise Added

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    Art of Noise

    An exploration of how design has transformed people’s relationship to music over the past 100 years.

    February 13, 2026 – July 19, 2026

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

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    Carlotta Corpron: Light Is a Plastic Medium Added

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    Carlotta Corpron: Light Is a Plastic Medium

    Corpron's investigations into the poetics of light and form and innovative use of technology supported the establishment of photography as fine art.

    February 27, 2026 – January 31, 2027

    Hirshhorn Museum

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    Vishnu’s Cosmic Ocean Added

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    Vishnu’s Cosmic Ocean

    See the largest bronze ever cast in Southeast Asia, a depiction of the Hindu god Vishnu reclining on a coiled serpent floating in the primordial ocean. 

    March 7, 2026 – September 7, 2026

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

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    Into the Waters with Senju and Bingyi: Two Contemporary Paintings Added

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    Into the Waters with Senju and Bingyi: Two Contemporary Paintings

    Feel the power and beauty of water in this exhibition featuring contemporary artists Hiroshi Senju and Bingyi. 

    April 2, 2026 – August 23, 2026

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

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    Of the Hills: Pahari Paintings from India’s Himalayan Kingdoms Added

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    Of the Hills: Pahari Paintings from India’s Himalayan Kingdoms

    Discover the extraordinary beauty and unique history of paintings made for Hindu kings in India’s Pahari (hill) region between the 1620s and 1830s.

    April 18, 2026 – July 26, 2026

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

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    ¡Puro Ritmo! The Musical Journey of Salsa Added

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    ¡Puro Ritmo! The Musical Journey of Salsa

    The National Museum of the American Latino presents its second major exhibition on the origins of salsa music.

    Spring 2026 – TBA

    American History Museum

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    In Pursuit of Life, Liberty & Happiness Added

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    In Pursuit of Life, Liberty & Happiness

    An immersive exhibition exploring the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

    May 14, 2026 – September 2026

    American History Museum

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    Breaking Down Walls: Art as a Portal for the Incarcerated Added

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    Breaking Down Walls: Art as a Portal for the Incarcerated

    This exhibition highlights the efforts of artists to create transformative experiences in carceral facilities.

    September 5, 2025 – January 18, 2026

    Archives of American Art

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    Basquiat × Banksy Added

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    Basquiat × Banksy

    Basquiat’s Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump (1982) and Banksy’s response, Banksquiat, are placed in dialogue.

    September 29, 2024 – January 19, 2026

    Hirshhorn Museum

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    Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains Added

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    Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains

    This exhibition celebrates the full expression of narrative art among Native nations of the Great Plains.

    June 1, 2024 – January 20, 2026

    American Indian Museum DC

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    Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell Added

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    Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell

    George Hurrell created definitive, timeless images of many of the most glamorous figures of filmdom’s golden era.

    March 1, 2024 – January 25, 2026

    Portrait Gallery

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    Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared Added

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    Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared

    Spanning ancient times to the present, the works featured in this exhibition embody the depth and diversity of Korea’s artistic legacy.

    November 15, 2025 – February 1, 2026

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

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    Cut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs Added

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    Cut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs

    Cut + Paste showcases seventeen Japanese artists who pushed the limits of printmaking and photography and whose experimental works blur reality, memory, and even how we perceive space and time.

    June 21, 2025 – February 22, 2026

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

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    Reasons to Gather: Japanese Tea Practice Unwrapped Added

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    Reasons to Gather: Japanese Tea Practice Unwrapped

    Reasons to Gather presents eleven historic tea utensils and accessories that demonstrate accrued layers of historical and cultural meaning.

    April 12, 2025 – April 26, 2026

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

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    Dazzling Diversity Added

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    Dazzling Diversity

    Celebrate the vast and varied insect world through the pages of early natural history books from the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.

    September 10, 2024 – May 11, 2026

    Natural History Museum

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    Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass Added

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    Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass

    Explore glass art as a medium for Indigenous stories, designs, and contemporary issues through 120 artworks by 29 Indigenous artists.

    November 28, 2025 – May 29, 2026

    American Indian Museum New York

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    From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography’s Formative Years Added

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    From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography’s Formative Years

    This exhibition traces the evolution of the grand-scale, whole-plate photograph format from the high-end daguerreotype to the more affordable tintype.

    June 20, 2025 – June 14, 2026

    Portrait Gallery

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    Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work Added

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    Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work

    This exhibition introduces “Grandma” Moses to new generations and examines her legacy in the context of America today.

    November 25, 2025 – July 12, 2026

    American Art Museum

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    Shahzia Sikander: The Last Post Added

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    Shahzia Sikander: The Last Post

    Through precisely inked and animated scenes, this video artwork critically considers the legacy of British colonialism in Asia.

    July 3, 2025 – July 12, 2026

    American Art Museum

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    NASA’s Earth Information Center @ NMNH Added

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    NASA’s Earth Information Center @ NMNH

    Explore high-resolution data visualizations, interactive experiences, and videos that share how scientists collect and interpret data.

    October 8, 2024 Through 2028

    Natural History Museum

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    The Wright Brothers & the Invention of the Aerial Age Added

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    The Wright Brothers & the Invention of the Aerial Age

    Explore who Wilbur and Orville Wright were, what they achieved and how they did it, and how the world reacted. 

    October 14, 2022 – Indefinitely

    Air and Space Museum

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    Destination Moon Added

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    Destination Moon

    The gallery shows how an extraordinary combination of things made it possible for humans to walk on the Moon—and how we are going back.

    October 14, 2022 – Indefinitely

    Air and Space Museum

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    The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room Added

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    The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room

    The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room includes more than two hundred bronzes, paintings, silk hangings, and carpets that were created in Tibet, China, and Mongolia between the thirteenth and early twentieth centuries.

    March 5, 2022 – Ongoing

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

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    Laurie Anderson: Four Talks Added

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    Laurie Anderson: Four Talks

    Laurie Anderson has painted directly on the walls of the Hirshhorn in a stream-of-consciousness manner without preparatory sketches.

    September 24, 2021 – Ongoing

    Hirshhorn Museum

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    Americans Added

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    Americans

    American Indians represent less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, yet names and images of Indians are everywhere. Americans invites visitors to ask why.

    January 18, 2018 – Indefinitely

    American Indian Museum DC

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    Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts Added

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    Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts

    Visionary offers broad thematic connections between works from across the spectrum of times, places, and media represented in the museum’s holdings.

    November 4, 2017 – Permanent

    African Art Museum

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    America's Presidents Added

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    America's Presidents

    The nation’s only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House tells the American story through the individuals who have shaped it.

    September 22, 2017 – Permanent

    Portrait Gallery

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    American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith Added

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    American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith

    Presents national treasures that represent American democracy—based on the bold American experiment to create a government “of the people, by the people and for the people.”

    June 28, 2017 – Permanent

    American History Museum

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    Greensboro Lunch Counter Added

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    Greensboro Lunch Counter

    The sit-in of four African American college students at this Woolworth counter helped ignite a youth-led movement to challenge inequality throughout the South.

    June 28, 2017 – Indefinitely

    American History Museum

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    Musical Crossroads Added

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    Musical Crossroads

    This exhibition tells the story of African American music from the arrival of the first Africans to today’s hip-hop.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Slavery and Freedom Added

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    Slavery and Freedom

    This exhibition explores the complex story of slavery and freedom, a story standing at the core of our national experience.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    American Enterprise Added

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    American Enterprise

    Learn how business and innovation helped the United States develop from a small dependent agricultural nation to one of the world's largest economies.

    July 1, 2015 – Permanent

    American History Museum

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    Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations Added

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    Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations

    Learn about the treaties that lie at the heart of the relationship between Indian nations and the United States.

    September 21, 2014 – January 17, 2028

    American Indian Museum DC

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    Experience America Added

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    Experience America

    Through New Deal programs, the federal government paid artists to paint and sculpt and urged them to look to the nation’s land and people for subjects.

    August 14, 2014 – Ongoing

    American Art Museum

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    Gems of American Philately Added

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    Gems of American Philately

    Examine a 1918 Inverted Jenny and 12 other philatelic gems that are rarely on view.

    September 22, 2013 – Permanent

    Postal Museum

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    The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem Added

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    The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem

    The sight of those “broad stripes and bright stars” inspired Francis Scott Key to write a song that eventually became the United States national anthem.

    November 21, 2008 – Permanent

    American History Museum

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    Cold War Aviation Added

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    Cold War Aviation

    The role of aircraft in the post-World War II competition between superpowers is explored.

    December 15, 2003 – Permanent

    Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center

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    Binding the Nation Added

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    Binding the Nation

    This gallery provides an overview of mail service in America from colonial times through the 19th century.

    July 30, 1993 – Permanent

    Postal Museum

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    Futures in Space Added

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    Futures in Space

    Explore the potential near- and long–term futures that may emerge with advances in space exploration technology and enterprise.

    July 28, 2025 – Indefinitely

    Air and Space Museum

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    Really BIG Money Added

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    Really BIG Money

    Artifacts and activities help young visitors understand that money can be a powerful and memorable way to learn about the world.

    April 8, 2022 – Indefinitely

    American History Museum

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    The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time Added

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    The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time

    Learn how life on Earth evolved and see highlights from the museum's unrivaled collection of 46 million fossils.

    June 8, 2019 – Permanent

    Natural History Museum

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    Explore! with the National Portrait Gallery Added

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    Explore! with the National Portrait Gallery

    Explore! is a space where kids (ages 18 months to 8 years old accompanied by an adult) can experiment with portraiture hands-on. Hours are subject to change.

    January 28, 2017 – Indefinitely

    Portrait Gallery

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    Sports: Leveling the Playing Field Added

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    Sports: Leveling the Playing Field

    Learn how African Americans have contributed to sports in American and how sports have helped people respond to injustice.

    September 24, 2016 – Indefinitely

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Wegmans Wonderplace Added

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    Wegmans Wonderplace

    Wegmans Wonderplace welcomes curious kids ages 0–6 and their grownups. Please also note that children may not visit Wegmans Wonderplace without an adult. Please check our events calendar for the latest hours.

    December 9, 2015 – Indefinitely

    American History Museum

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    Patrick F. Taylor Foundation Object Project Added

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    Patrick F. Taylor Foundation Object Project

    In Object Project, visitors consider the impact of innovative things on everyday life in the past.

    July 1, 2015 – Permanent

    American History Museum

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    Spark!Lab Added

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    Spark!Lab

    Open Wednesday–Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Spark!Lab reveals the real story behind inventors’ work through hands-on activities that help kids and families learn about the history and process of invention. Hours are subject to change.

    July 1, 2015 – Indefinitely

    American History Museum

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    American Trail Added

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    American Trail

    American Trail is where Zoo visitors can learn about animals native to the U.S. and Canada, many of which have come back from the brink of extinction and are thriving thanks to conservation efforts.

    September 1, 2012 – Permanent

    National Zoo

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    As We Grow: Traditions, Toys, Games Added

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    As We Grow: Traditions, Toys, Games

    The toys, games, and clothing displayed offer children ways of learning traditions of families and people and represent many tribes and time periods.

    August 22, 2012 – Permanent

    American Indian Museum DC

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    Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt Added

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    Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt

    Learn about Egyptian burial ritual and cosmology and what they reveal about life in ancient Egypt.

    November 17, 2011 – Permanent

    Natural History Museum

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    Sant Ocean Hall Added

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    Sant Ocean Hall

    Dive in with Phoenix—a model of an actual North Atlantic right whale—and discover how the ocean is a global system essential to all life.

    September 27, 2008 – Permanent

    Natural History Museum

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    Human Spaceflight Added

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    Human Spaceflight

    Learn how the United States, Soviet Union/Russia, and other nations have made human spaceflight a reality.

    November 1, 2004 – Permanent

    Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center

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    Kids' Farm Added

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    Kids' Farm

    At the Kids’ Farm, children of all ages have an opportunity to meet and greet cows, alpacas, hogs, donkeys, goats, chickens, and fish.

    June 12, 2004 – Permanent

    National Zoo

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    America on the Move Added

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    America on the Move

    This exhibition examines how transportation—from 1876 to 1999—has shaped our American identity.

    November 22, 2003 – Permanent

    American History Museum

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    Kenneth E. Behring Family Hall of Mammals Added

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    Kenneth E. Behring Family Hall of Mammals

    Travel to four continents to see some 274 mammals in lifelike poses in their natural habitat.

    November 15, 2003 – Permanent

    Natural History Museum

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    Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals Added

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    Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals

    This hall features 2,500 minerals and gems, including the Hope Diamond, Hooker Emerald Brooch, and a sample from the Bennu asteroid.

    September 20, 1997 – Permanent

    Natural History Museum

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    Insect Zoo, O. Orkin Added

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    Insect Zoo, O. Orkin

    The Insect Zoo features many species of live insects, a "nursery" room where visitors can peek at insect larvae and pupae.

    September 10, 1993 – Permanent

    Natural History Museum

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    Moving the Mail Added

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    Moving the Mail

    Faced with the challenge of moving the mail quickly, the postal service looked to trains, automobiles, airplanes, and buses to deliver the mail.

    July 30, 1993 – Permanent

    Postal Museum

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    The Dolls' House Added

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    The Dolls' House

    This dollhouse and its 800 miniature furnishings represent a romantic view of the life of a large and affluent American family in the early 1900s.

    Opened 1951 – Indefinitely

    American History Museum

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