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  • American Bison

    See American bison—the animal that inspired the founding of the National Zoo.

    August 30, 2014 – September 13, 2024

    National Zoo

  • 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

  • Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice

    William H. Johnson's Fighters for Freedom series is a tribute to African American activists, scientists, teachers, and performers as well as international heads of state working to bring peace to the world.

    March 8, 2024 – September 10, 2024

    American Art Museum

  • Objects of Wonder

    Explore the breadth, scope, and splendor of the world’s most extensive natural history research collection—more than 145 million artifacts and specimens.

    March 10, 2017 – September 8, 2024

    Natural History Museum

  • Sea Monsters Unearthed, Life in Angola's Ancient Seas

    This exhibition explores how these marine reptiles livedin the Cretaceous Period, and immerses visitors in an ancient ocean ecosystem.

    November 9, 2018 – September 3, 2024

    Natural 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

  • Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism

    View some of the key people whose work has influenced attitudes toward the environment in the United States from the late 19th century until today.

    October 20, 2023 – September 2, 2024

    Portrait Gallery

  • Staff Picks: Our Favorite Things from the Collection

    This exhibition introduces staff members from the Archives of American Art and items they find special, sometimes for very personal reasons.

    June 1, 2023 – September 1, 2024

    Archives of American Art

  • Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women

    Explore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States.

    March 28, 2024 – August 26, 2024

    American Art 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

  • Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols

    Give Me a Sign examines the fascinating histories behind many of the symbols that instruct, protect, entertain, empower, and connect people.

    May 13, 2023 – August 11, 2024

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • An Atlas of Es Devlin

    An Atlas of Es Devlin features over 300 sketches, paintings, illuminated paper cuts, and projection-mapped rotating miniature sculptures that form the seeds of some of the most iconic, cultural congregations of music, poetry, art, and activism in recent times.

    November 18, 2023 – August 11, 2024

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas

    This exhibition provides an intimate view of Thomas’ evolving artistic practices during her most prolific period from 1959 to her death in 1978.

    September 15, 2023 – August 4, 2024

    American Art Museum

  • Carrie Mae Weems: Looking Forward, Looking Back

    This focused exhibition pairs two projects by Carrie Mae Weems that explore the relationship of memory to history and of memory.

    September 22, 2023 – July 7, 2024

    American Art Museum

  • Robert Houle: Red Is Beautiful

    Red Is Beautiful, the first major retrospective of his work, celebrates more than fifty years of this singular artist’s remarkable career.

    May 25, 2023 – June 2, 2024

    American Indian Museum DC

  • Duty, Honor, Country: Antebellum Portraits of West Pointers

    This exhibition features early camera portraits of individuals drawn exclusively from the Portrait Gallery’s collection of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes.

    June 23, 2023 – May 19, 2024

    Portrait Gallery

  • Anyang: China's Ancient City of Kings

    Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings features over two hundred remarkable artifacts from the museum’s permanent collection. 

    February 25, 2023 – April 28, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

  • The Future of Orchids: Conservation and Collaboration

    The 28th annual orchid exhibition fills the entire Kogod Courtyard of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery.

    January 27, 2024 – April 28, 2024

    Smithsonian Gardens

  • One Life: Frederick Douglass

    This exhibition illuminates the legacy of Frederick Douglass through prints, photographs, and ephemera.

    June 16, 2023 – April 21, 2024

    Portrait Gallery

  • Mirror, Mirror for Us All: Disney Parks and the American Narrative / Experience

    Through objects, images, maps and more, this exhibit looks at how Disney and the public are in conversation to create the national narrative of today and the future.

    April 28, 2023 – April 14, 2024

    American History Museum

  • Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America

    Adéagbo invites each of us to consider our individual reflections of Abraham Lincoln and the unfinished journey toward emancipation for all.

    November 18, 2023 – April 1, 2024

    African Art Museum

  • Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023

    Sharing Honors and Burdens focuses on fresh and nuanced visions by six Native American or Alaska Native artists.

    May 26, 2023 – March 31, 2024

    Renwick Gallery

  • Simone Leigh

    The first comprehensive survey of the richly layered work of Simone Leigh, among the most respected artists of her generation.

    November 3, 2023 – March 3, 2024

    Hirshhorn Museum


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