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    Tsedaye Makonnen: Sanctuary :: መቅደስ :: Mekdes

    Explore sculptures that explore the dehumanization of Black women and themes related to the power of motherhood and sisterly solidarity.

    December 13, 2024 – Ongoing

    African Art Museum

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    Japanese Art from the Collection

    This exhibition highlights both iconic and lesser-known aspects of Japanese culture through paintings and ceramics from the Freer Gallery of Art Collection.

    October 26, 2024 – Ongoing

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

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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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    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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    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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    Glenn Kaino: Bridge Added

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    Glenn Kaino: Bridge

    Glenn Kaino’s powerful aerial sculpture Bridge is comprised of 200 golden arms hanging from the ceiling of SAAM’s Luce Foundation Center. 

    July 26, 2024 – Ongoing

    American Art Museum

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    Road Warriors/Guerreros de la carretera Added

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    Road Warriors/Guerreros de la carretera

    This robotic vehicle demonstrates promising research advances in artificial intelligence and driverless vehicles. 

    July 23, 2024 – Fall/Winter 2026

    American History Museum

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    Forces for Change: Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women’s Activism Added

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    Forces for Change: Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women’s Activism

    Learn about renowned educator and reformer Mary McLeod Bethune and other Black women social change agents, past and present. 

    July 19, 2024 – Ongoing

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Ruffled Feathers: Creating Whistler’s Peacock Room Added

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    Ruffled Feathers: Creating Whistler’s Peacock Room

    Ruffled Feathers offers visitors a chance to explore the Peacock Room’s tangled history and the personal and global forces that shaped it.

    July 13, 2024 – January 31, 2027

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

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    Shifting Boundaries: Perspectives on American Landscapes Added

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    Shifting Boundaries: Perspectives on American Landscapes

    This exhibition explores the views of New England portrayed by American painters William Metcalf, Dwight Tryon, Winslow Homer, and Abbott Thayer and how they have evolved and been reshaped over time.

    July 13, 2024 – July 26, 2026

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

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    Benin Bronzes Added

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    Benin Bronzes

    These artworks were some of the 29 pieces that were legally transferred to their country of origin, Nigeria, in fall 2022.

    June 3, 2024 – December 31, 2026

    African Art 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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    Reclaiming My Time Added

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    Reclaiming My Time

    Works by contemporary Black designers engage ideas about cultural heritage, bodies at rest, and histories of labor and leisure.

    May 31, 2024 – January 2026

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Do Ho Suh: Public Figures Added

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    Do Ho Suh: Public Figures

    A special edition of Do Ho Suh's work Public Figures is the first new sculpture installed outside the historic Freer Gallery of Art in over three decades.

    April 27, 2024 – April 29, 2029

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

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    Zen And the Open Road Added

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    Zen And the Open Road

    In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the author's 1966 Honda Super Hawk motorcycle is on display.

    April 15, 2024 – Ongoing

    American History Museum

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    Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960 Added

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    Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960

    A major survey of artwork made during a transformative period characterized by new currents in science and philosophy, and ever-increasing mechanization.

    March 22, 2024 – November 29, 2026

    Hirshhorn Museum

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    Change YOUR Game

    A family-friendly, interactive exhibition on the intersection of invention, sports, and technology.

    March 15, 2024 – Ongoing

    American History Museum

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    Striking Objects: Contemporary Japanese Metalwork Added

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    Striking Objects: Contemporary Japanese Metalwork

    Contemporary Japanese metalworking breathes life into traditional methods that have been passed down and practiced over generations. The artists featured in Striking Objects create masterpieces that combine tradition with creativity and innovation.

    March 2, 2024 – January 11, 2026

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

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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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    Knotted Clay: Raku Ceramics and Tea Added

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    Knotted Clay: Raku Ceramics and Tea

    This exhibition features tea bowls, water containers, and other vessels in the museum’s permanent collection that demonstrate the glazes and forms unique to Raku ware.

    December 9, 2023 – 2026

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

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    Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass

    Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass.

    December 8, 2023 – August 9, 2026

    American Art Museum

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    Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass

    Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of Frederick Douglass.

    December 8, 2023 – August 9, 2026

    Portrait Gallery

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    Human/Nature: Why People Are Drawn to Living Things Added

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    Human/Nature: Why People Are Drawn to Living Things

    Bringing plants and other elements from nature into our living spaces can help people stay connected to natural cycles. 

    September 30, 2023 – Summer 2026

    Ripley Center

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    Galleries for Modern and Contemporary Art

    The museum's permanent collection freshly examines the explosion of possibility in American art between the 1940s and today.

    September 22, 2023 – Ongoing

    American Art Museum

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    Treasures and Trouble: Looking Inside a Legendary Blues Archive Added

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    Treasures and Trouble: Looking Inside a Legendary Blues Archive

    Highlights from a one-of-a-kind archive documenting the blues as compiled by Robert “Mack” McCormick are featured in the museum’s Archives Center cases. 

    June 23, 2023 – Ongoing

    American History Museum


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