Arts and Industries Building

First Major Exploration of the Future on the National Mall To Launch With Bill Nye, Pattie Gonia, SHAED, HBO Max’s Legendary, Kal Penn and More

New Collaboration With Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination Pairs Smithsonian Experts With Futurists and Sci-Fi Creators To Launch Series of Posters and Short Stories Set in the Future

First-of-Its-Kind Museum Experience Technology From LAB at Rockwell Group Melds Psychology, Gaming, Holograms and Gesture Control

First Major Exploration of the Future on the National Mall To Launch With ‘FUTURES Remixed’ Festival, Featuring Bill Nye, Pattie Gonia, SHAED, HBO Max’s “Legendary,” Kal Penn and More

Autonomous Electric Concept Vehicle Will Be Making Its Museum Debut at the Arts and Industries Building in November, Alongside Iconic 1960s Bell Jetpack

Award-Winning Filmmakers to Shine Light on Social Justice with Co-Chairs LL COOL J and Kevin Bright

Visitors Can See Alternate Future Worlds as Imagined by Beatriz Cortez, Nettrice Gaskins, Soo Sunny Park, Devan Shimoyama, and Tamiko Thiel and /p in Their Smithsonian Debuts

‘Emotional AI’ Sculpture Blends Physics, Neuroscience and Data Technology With the Human Voice

New A.I.-Designed Museum Experience Invites Visitors To Co-create Their Ideal Future City

XP-2 Prototype Carried World’s First Hyperloop Passengers in Historic Late 2020 Test Run

Historic Arts and Industries Building To Reopen for First Time in Nearly Two Decades With Smithsonian’s First Large-Scale Exploration of the Future

Experimental Long Conversation Convenes Dec. 7 for a Night of Ideas, Art and Food in America’s First National Museum