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  • One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection

    Building on the Hirshhorn’s blockbuster 2017 exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, this new exhibition affirms Kusama’s legacy within the Museum’s collection and art history with new acquisitions.

    April 1, 2022 – July 16, 2023

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Baseera Khan: The Liberator

    Baseera Khan’s sculpture The Liberator (2022) points to ongoing and global struggles for justice, as well as the complicated relationships between Western museums, capital, and cultural identity.

    May 4, 2023 – July 16, 2023

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Family Ties: Daguerreotype Portraits

    The portraits in this exhibition reflect the range of familial relationships documented by the camera during the daguerreian era.

    July 1, 2022 – June 11, 2023

    Portrait Gallery

  • Outbreak DIY: Epidemics in a Connected World

    Join epidemiologists, veterinarians, public health workers, and citizens as they rush to identify and respond to infectious diseases.

    November 3, 2022 – June 4, 2023

    Natural History Museum

  • Nature by Design: Botanical Lessons

    Botanical Lessons explores nature in the Smithsonian collections through thirteen botanical models on loan from the National Museum of American History, and a selection of illustrated books and periodicals from Smithsonian Libraries.

    June 8, 2019 – May 29, 2023

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits

    Multimedia artist Iké Udé celebrates the luminescent beauty and mystique of African visionaries.

    February 5, 2022 – May 29, 2023

    African Art Museum

  • Deconstructing Power: W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World's Fair

    Decorative arts from Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection in dialogue with 20 innovative data visualizations created for the 1900 Paris World’s Fair by W. E. B. Du Bois to explore how design can both reveal and mask dynamics of power and equity.

    December 9, 2022 – May 29, 2023

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Hector Guimard: How Paris Got Its Curves

    This exhibition invites a new understanding of France’s most famous art nouveau architect, Hector Guimard (1867–1942).

    November 18, 2022 – May 21, 2023

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Discovery and Revelation: Religion, Science, and Making Sense of Things

    This exhibition tells stories concerning intersections of religion and science from three centuries of American history, beginning with a 1721 controversy concerning smallpox and Puritan notions of divine judgement, and ending with encounters of technology and belief in the digital age.

    March 18, 2022 – April 30, 2023

    American History Museum

  • One Life: Maya Lin

    One Life: Maya Lin is the first biographical exhibition of the architect, sculptor, and environmentalist.

    September 30, 2022 – April 16, 2023

    Portrait Gallery

  • Jeffrey Veregge: Of Gods and Heroes

    This site-specific work includes an epic battle between Marvel characters and aliens invading the streets of New York City.

    November 19, 2021 – April 9, 2023

    American Indian Museum New York

  • Sculpture Garden

    The Sculpture Garden offers visitors a contemplative haven in the heart of our nation’s capital.

    October 4, 1974 – April 7, 2023

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Feathered Ink

    Across three galleries, Feathered Ink explores how Japanese artists have experimented over several centuries with different brush techniques in their depictions of avian subjects. 

    August 27, 2022 – April 2, 2023

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • Rinpa: Creativity Across Time and Space

    We invite you to explore a selection of paintings and ceramics by several generations of Rinpa artists from our collection.

    October 1, 2022 – April 2, 2023

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World

    This Present Moment highlights the role that artists play in our world to spark essential conversations, stories of resilience, and methods of activism.

    May 13, 2022 – April 2, 2023

    Renwick Gallery

  • We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection

    We Are Made of Stories traces the rise of self-taught artists in the twentieth century and examines how, despite wide-ranging societal, racial, and gender-based obstacles, their creativity and bold self-definition became major forces in American art.

    July 1, 2022 – March 26, 2023

    American Art Museum

  • Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics

    This exhibition features the work of designers, artists, doctors, engineers, and neighbors who asked, “How can I help?”

    December 10, 2021 – March 19, 2023

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field

    Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field features photo essays by Native photojournalists Donovan Quintero, Tailyr Irvine, and Russel Albert Daniels

    November 3, 2022 – March 12, 2023

    American Indian Museum New York

  • The Utopia Project

    This interactive gallery is a space to learn the art of activism and to unlock the creativity in each of us to transform our world.

    November 1, 2022 – March 1, 2023

    Anacostia Community Museum

  • Teen Portrait Competition, 2022

    The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is proud to present the winners and finalists of the 2022 Teen Portrait Competition!

    July 29, 2022 – February 26, 2023

    Portrait Gallery

  • The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today

    Every three years, artists living and working in the United States are invited to submit one of their recent portraits to a panel of experts chosen by the museum.

    April 30, 2022 – February 26, 2023

    Portrait Gallery

  • Face Values

    Face Values is an immersive installation that explores the pervasive but often hidden role of facial-detection technology in contemporary society.

    September 20, 2019 – February 13, 2023

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World

    Focusing on Native cosmology and organized around one solar year, this exhibition explores the annual ceremonies of Native peoples as a window on their ancestral teachings.

    September 21, 2004 – February 12, 2023

    American Indian Museum DC

  • Smithson Crypt

    The final resting place of the Institution's benefactor, James Smithson (1765-1829), is a small chapel-like room located at the north entrance to the Castle.

    March 6, 1905 – January 31, 2023

    Smithsonian Castle

  • Welcome to Your Smithsonian

    This exhibition looks at the history of the Smithsonian, focusing on its research; museums; and public programs in art, culture, history, and science, and the role of the American public in the Smithsonian's museums and research. The Smithsonian is a partnership between its specialist staff and the American people.

    March 20, 2015 – January 31, 2023

    Smithsonian Castle


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