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  • Laurie Anderson: The Weather

    Laurie Anderson: The Weather is the largest-ever U.S. exhibition of artwork by celebrated multimedia artist Laurie Anderson. 

    September 24, 2021 – August 7, 2022

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Heroes: Principles of African Greatness

    Heroes features a selection of masterworks from the the museum's permanent collection in a new, dynamic installation that tells the story of key heroic principles and people in Africa’s arts and history.

    November 16, 2019 – August 1, 2022

    African Art Museum

  • Sophia Crownfield: Drawn from Nature

    From the 1890s to the 1920s, Sophia Crownfield designed prints for some of the most prominent silk and wallpaper manufacturers in the United States.

    February 4, 2022 – July 31, 2022

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Celebrate Smokey: 75 Years of Fighting Wildfires

    A new Smokey Bear outdoor exhibit at Smithsonian’s National Zoo invites visitors to look back at the legacy of one of the most famous residents in the Zoo’s 130-year history.

    May 23, 2019 – July 31, 2022

    National Zoo

  • Abigail DeVille: Light of Freedom

    Abigail DeVille's 13-foot-tall sculpture responds to the Black Lives Matter movement within the larger context of America's long relationship to the idea of liberty itself.

    October 15, 2021 – July 26, 2022

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Mind Over Matter: Zen in Medieval Japan

    This exhibition showcases the breadth of the museum’s medieval Zen collections, highlighting rare and striking works from Japan and China to illustrate the visual, spiritual, and philosophical power of Zen.

    March 5, 2022 – July 24, 2022

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • Falcons: The Art of the Hunt

    A selection of paintings and objects from ancient Egypt to China offer a glimpse into the fascinating world of falcons.

    January 15, 2022 – July 17, 2022

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • FUTURES

    Part exhibition, part festival, FUTURES presents nearly 32,000 square feet of new immersive site-specific art installations, interactives, working experiments, inventions, speculative designs, and “artifacts of the future,” as well as historic objects and discoveries from the Smithsonian.

    November 20, 2021 – July 6, 2022

    Arts and Industries Building

  • Marcel Duchamp: The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection

    This exhibition features the recent gift of over 50 major historical artworks, including more than 35 seminal works by Duchamp, promised to the museum by Washington, D.C., collectors Barbara and Aaron Levine.

    November 9, 2019 – June 5, 2022

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • The Peacock Room in Blue and White

    The Peacock Room in Blue and White fills the room’s shelving with blue-and-white Chinese porcelains, inspired by room’s appearance in 1876 when it was the dining room of Frederick Leyland, a shipping magnate in London.

    May 18, 2019 – June 1, 2022

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands, 1968-2020

    The National Portrait Gallery presents the first major large-scale retrospective of work by Hung Liu, the internationally acclaimed Chinese-born American artist.

    August 27, 2021 – May 30, 2022

    Portrait Gallery

  • Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

    This exhibition focuses on a selection of extraordinary seventeenth-century textiles and full-length portraits from Safavid Iran. Fine illustrated manuscript folios from our collections are also included in the exhibition.

    December 18, 2021 – May 15, 2022

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

  • Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano

    Experience the spectacle of Venice and its rich history as a glassmaking capital through Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano.

    October 8, 2021 – May 8, 2022

    American Art Museum

  • Baseball Legend Jackie Robinson's Jersey

    Baseball legend Jackie Robinson’s jersey is on display in commemoration of the 75th anniversary Robinson integrating Major League Baseball. 

    April 7, 2022 – May 1, 2022

    African American History and Culture Museum

  • Orchids: Hidden Stories of Groundbreaking Women

    Orchids: Hidden Stories of Groundbreaking Women unearths stories of women who have enriched our understanding and appreciation of orchids.

    January 29, 2022 – April 24, 2022

    Smithsonian Gardens

  • Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer

    The largest-ever exhibition of works by graphic design pioneer E. McKnight Kauffer (American, 1890–1954) traces the designer’s transformative role in integrating avant-garde style into modern life.

    September 10, 2021 – April 10, 2022

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Dewing's Poetic World

    Exploring Dewing’s social connections reveals how his art was influenced by his friendships with Charles Lang Freer, who encouraged him to pursue Japonisme, and with architect Stanford White, who designed the elaborate frames for many of his paintings on view in this intriguing exhibition.

    November 27, 2019 – April 3, 2022

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory

    The exhibition features a recent body of work in the form of a monumental cycle of 40 large-scale, monochromatic drawings that chronicle a myth conceived by the artist.

    November 19, 2021 – April 3, 2022

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Biomes: Life in the Balance

    Visit deserts, rainforests, grasslands, wetlands, and tundra without leaving the National Mall in this Smithsonian Garden's exhibit.

    May 10, 2019 – March 31, 2022

    Ripley Center

  • Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall

    This exhibition celebrates some of the most significant airplanes, rockets, and spacecraft in history. They tell tales of ingenuity and courage, war and peace, politics and power, as well as society and culture.

    July 1, 2016 – March 27, 2022

    Air and Space Museum

  • The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age

    This exhibition presents the Wrights' technical achievements and examines the cultural impact of early powered flight.

    October 11, 2003 – March 27, 2022

    Air and Space Museum

  • Moving Beyond Earth

    Explore the achievements and challenges of human spaceflight in the United States during the space shuttle and space station era.

    November 19, 2009 – March 27, 2022

    Air and Space Museum

  • Explore the Universe

    Learn what scientists think our universe is like, how the present scientific view of the universe came to be, how our universe is being shaped today, and what mysteries remain.

    September 21, 2001 – March 27, 2022

    Air and Space Museum

  • Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There

    This exhibition reveals why a good clock is crucial to navigation and how increasingly accurate timekeeping has influenced how we find our way.

    April 12, 2013 – March 27, 2022

    Air and Space Museum

  • #IfThenSheCan - The Exhibit

    #IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit is he largest collection of statues of women ever assembled together, to be installed on and around the National Mall.

    March 5, 2022 – March 27, 2022

    Smithsonian Gardens


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