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    Body Image: Arts of the Indian Subcontinent Added

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    Body Image: Arts of the Indian Subcontinent

    This exhibition explores concepts and aesthetics of the body. The theme of the body provides a portal for appreciating how India’s extraordinary culture is woven from distinctive but interrelated traditions.

    October 14, 2017 – Indefinitely

    Asian Art Museum, West Building

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    Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran Added

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    Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran

    View highly sophisticated ancient Iranian metalwork ranging from deep bowls to elaborate drinking vessels to objects in gold and silver.

    October 14, 2017 – Permanent

    Asian Art Museum, East Building

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    Common Ground: Our American Garden Added

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    Common Ground: Our American Garden

    This exhibition shares the stories of plants and how they are important to Americans.

    June 28, 2017 – Permanent

    Smithsonian Gardens

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    Wallace H. Coulter Unity Square Added

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    Wallace H. Coulter Unity Square

    Wallace H. Coulter Unity Square is where history will inspire you to participate—in the museum and in civic life.

    June 28, 2017 – Permanent

    American History Museum

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    Many Voices, One Nation Added

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    Many Voices, One Nation

    Explore the 500-year journey of how many distinct peoples and cultures shaped and negotiated the culture of the U.S.

    June 28, 2017 – Permanent

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    American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith Added

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    American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith

    Presents national treasures that represent American democracy—based on the bold American experiment to create a government “of the people, by the people and for the people.”

    June 28, 2017 – Permanent

    American History Museum

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    Greensboro Lunch Counter Added

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    Greensboro Lunch Counter

    The sit-in of four African American college students at this Woolworth counter helped ignite a youth-led movement to challenge inequality throughout the South.

    June 28, 2017 – Indefinitely

    American History Museum

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    Clouds in a Bag: The Evelyn Way Kendall Ballooning and Early Aviation Collection Added

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    Clouds in a Bag: The Evelyn Way Kendall Ballooning and Early Aviation Collection

    The treasures in this collection provide a sense of the wonder and excitement experienced by those who witnessed the birth of flight over two centuries ago.

    January 28, 2017 – Indefinitely

    Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center

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    Giving in America Added

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    Giving in America

    Giving in America looks at the history of philanthropy in United States, commemorating the movements and people who made and continue to make a difference.

    November 29, 2016 – Permanent

    American History Museum

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    Folk and Self-Taught Art Added

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    Folk and Self-Taught Art

    These galleries serve as a reminder that not all artists are formally trained and that the making of art is as much an act of passion as of intellect.

    October 21, 2016 – Ongoing

    American Art Museum

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    Taking the Stage Added

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    Taking the Stage

    See how African Americans transformed the ways they are represented onstage by challenging racial discrimination and stereotypes. 

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Making a Way Out of No Way Added

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    Making a Way Out of No Way

    Learn about the ways in which African Americans created possibilities in a world that denied them opportunities.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    A Century in the Making: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture Added

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    A Century in the Making: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture

    This exhibit explores the journey toward fulfillment of the long-held dream of building the museum. 

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Explore More! Added

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    Explore More!

    This interactive, multifaceted space is dedicated to helping visitors connect and engage with African American history and culture.

    September 24, 2016 – Ongoing

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Cultural Expressions Added

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    Cultural Expressions

    This exhibition serves as an introduction to the concept of African American and African diaspora culture. 

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Musical Crossroads Added

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    Musical Crossroads

    This exhibition tells the story of African American music from the arrival of the first Africans to today’s hip-hop.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Power of Place Added

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    Power of Place

    Experience the broad diversity of African American life and regional cultures in communities that took root in different areas of the country.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Visual Art and the American Experience Added

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    Visual Art and the American Experience

    This art exhibition illustrates the critical role that African American artists played in shaping the history of American art.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Sports: Leveling the Playing Field Added

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    Sports: Leveling the Playing Field

    Learn how African Americans have contributed to sports in American and how sports have helped people respond to injustice.

    September 24, 2016 – Indefinitely

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Double Victory: The African American Military Experience Added

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    Double Victory: The African American Military Experience

    Learn about the service and sacrifice of African American soldiers, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, and sailors.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Slavery and Freedom Added

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    Slavery and Freedom

    This exhibition explores the complex story of slavery and freedom, a story standing at the core of our national experience.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: Era of Segregation 1876-1968 Added

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    Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: Era of Segregation 1876-1968

    This exhibition takes visitors from the end of Reconstruction through the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond Added

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    A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond

    This exhibition illustrates the impact of African Americans on life in the United States—social, economic, political, and cultural.

    September 24, 2016 – Permanent

    African American History and Culture Museum

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    Always Ready: Firefighting in the 19th Century Added

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    Always Ready: Firefighting in the 19th Century

    Explores how the role of citizens in fighting fire changed dramatically over the 19th century along with the technology.

    September 16, 2016 – November 2025

    American History Museum

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    Currents: Water in African Art Added

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    Currents: Water in African Art

    The objects in Currents span the continent of Africa to explore the importance of water for both practical and artistic purposes.

    July 15, 2016 – Indefintely

    African Art Museum


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