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  • Meeting Tessai: Modern Japanese Art from the Cowles Collection

    Meeting Tessai highlights a transformative gift of early modern and modern Japanese paintings and calligraphy from the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection.

    August 13, 2022 – January 28, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • Palace Life Unfolds: Conserving a Chinese Lacquer Screen

    On display for the first time since 1976 after a major conservation project, this Chinese lacquer screen dated to 1672 is a delight, featuring newly revealed intricate details that had been obscured by centuries of wear and use. 

    July 15, 2023 – January 28, 2024

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

  • A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China

    A Window Suddenly Opens is the Hirshhorn’s first survey of photography by leading multigenerational Chinese artists made between the 1990s and 2000s.

    November 4, 2022 – January 7, 2024

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Kinship

    Kinship presents more than forty artworks by eight contemporary artists whose work explores the notion of “kinship” and the closeness that bonds us.

    October 28, 2022 – January 7, 2024

    Portrait Gallery

  • To Live and Breathe: Women and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C.

    Explore how women of color draw on a long history of activism and advance environmental justice efforts.

    May 19, 2023 – January 7, 2024

    Anacostia Community Museum

  • John Akomfrah: Purple

    An enveloping, hour-long symphony of image and sound, Purple (2017) weaves together original film with archival footage against a hypnotic score to address themes related to climate change

    November 23, 2022 – January 7, 2024

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • In Memoriam: Rosalynn Carter, 1927–2023

    Rosalynn Carter was the first lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

    November 21, 2023 – January 3, 2024

    Portrait Gallery

  • Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch

    Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch celebrates more than a half century of Shelley Niro’s paintings, photographs, mixed-media works, and films.

    May 27, 2023 – January 1, 2024

    American Indian Museum New York

  • Highlights of the NMAAHC Library Collection

    Eleven objects are featured in this exhibition of highlights from the National Museum of African American History and Culture Library.

    September 12, 2022 – December 31, 2023

    African American History and Culture Museum

  • Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces

    Why We Serve honors the generations of Native Americans who have served in the armed forces of the United States—often in extraordinary numbers—since the American Revolution.

    November 11, 2020 – November 30, 2023

    American Indian Museum New York

  • Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces

    Why We Serve honors the generations of Native Americans who have served in the armed forces of the United States since the American Revolution.

    November 10, 2021 – November 30, 2023

    American Indian Museum DC

  • Portrait of a Nation: 2022 Honorees

    This intimate exhibition features the portraits of the seven individuals who have been selected to receive one of the museum’s 2022 Portrait of a Nation Awards.

    November 10, 2022 – October 22, 2023

    Portrait Gallery

  • Block by Block: Naming Washington

    Explore the namesakes of Washington, D.C.’s streets, avenues, neighborhoods, and other public spaces.

    July 30, 2021 – October 22, 2023

    Portrait Gallery

  • A Perfect Harmony: American Art

    Juxtaposing American and Asian art is a legacy of the founder of our museum, Detroit industrialist Charles Lang Freer. He believed in a universal language of beauty that resonated across time, space, and cultural diversity.

    November 27, 2019 – October 8, 2023

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

  • A More Perfect Union: American Artists and the Currents of Our Time

    In celebration of its 60th anniversary, Art in Embassies’ traveling exhibition, A More Perfect Union: American Artists and the Currents of Our Time, will be on view at the National Museum of American History September 19–October 1, 2023.

    September 19, 2023 – October 1, 2023

    American History Museum

  • Ay-Ō's Happy Rainbow Hell

    Immerse yourself in Ay-Ō’s world of sensory experience, exploration, and fun. This exhibition contains material not appropriate for all audiences. Parental discretion is advised.

    March 25, 2023 – September 10, 2023

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

  • I Dream a World: Selections from Brian Lanker's Portraits of Remarkable Black Women: Part II

    The Portrait Gallery recently acquired all 75 portraits from the Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer’s series and is celebrating the acquisition with a two-part exhibition.

    February 10, 2023 – September 10, 2023

    Portrait Gallery

  • Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection

    Put It This Way is devoted to the work of nearly 50 women and nonbinary artists in the Hirshhorn’s collection.

    August 2, 2022 – September 4, 2023

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Designing Peace

    Designing Peace explores the unique role design can play in pursuing peace. 

    June 10, 2022 – August 6, 2023

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Places of Invention

    Discover what can happen when the right mix of inventive people, ready resources, and inspiring surroundings come together.

    July 1, 2015 – July 30, 2023

    American History Museum

  • Inventive Minds

    Inventive Minds, a gallery within the Lemelson Hall of Invention and Innovation, will introduce visitors to the mission and work of the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, particularly its efforts to document invention.

    July 1, 2015 – July 30, 2023

    American History Museum

  • Reconstructing ‘Weatherbreak’ in an Age of Extreme Weather

    This month-long exhibitions will display the reconstruction of Weatherbreak—the first large-span geodesic dome to be erected in North America.

    July 5, 2023 – July 27, 2023

    American History Museum

  • 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

  • Unstill Waters: Contemporary Photography from India

    Through still and moving image, seriality, and portraiture, five leading contemporary artists explore rapidly changing natural and built environments in India, from riverbanks, ancient forests, and city streets to surreal symbolic settings.

    December 10, 2022 – June 11, 2023

    Asian Art Museum, East Building


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