Exhibitions

View news releases below or see all of our publicly released upcoming exhibitions.

Painting of a woman standing in front of water with cows against country landscape

National Portrait Gallery Announces “Portrait of a Nation: 2025 Honorees”

Exhibition of Never-Before-Seen and Newly Acquired Portraits Opens Dec. 12

Young boy wearing a white shirt with Kwanzaa written on it drums with a stick and his hand.

Anacostia Community Museum Hosts Weeklong Kwanzaa Celebration

Black and white photo of a man standing next to a vehicle.

Filipino American Stories on Migration and Memory Opens in December

First Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center Exhibition at the National Museum of American History Explores Stockton’s Little Manila

A sculpture in the shape of the canoe with white feathers.

“Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe” Opens Nov. 25 at the National Museum of the American Indian

Two abstract sculptures painted black and white sitting outside on a white sand dune

More Than 100 Glass Pieces To Go on View at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York

Litter of Four Cheetah Cubs Are Born at Front Royal Campus, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Virtual Visitors Can Watch the Family on the Cheetah Cub Cam

November 15, 2025
Museums and Zoo
Exhibitions

Photography of dinosaur bones in tan sand.

Ancient Giants Hit the Road: Smithsonian’s “Sea Monsters Unearthed” Traveling Exhibition Begins National Tour

First Stop Is Turtle Bay Museum in Redding, California, Opening Sept. 27

A man crouches down by vibrant painted and patterned art objects.

Smithsonian American Art Museum Debuts Monumental New Commission by Nick Cave in February 2026

“Nick Cave: Mammoth” marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Washington, D.C.

September 25, 2025
American Art Museum
Exhibitions

Color photograph of a girl in a large white ballgown standing in front of a red car propped up on hydraulic back tires.

Hispanic Heritage Month Opens with “Corazón y vida: Lowriding Culture” Exhibit and Festival at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History

Two side-by-side black and white images of abstracted shapes.

Hirshhorn Announces “Carlotta Corpron: Light Is a Plastic Medium” Surveying the Career of Abstract American Photographer

Exhibition To Showcase Six Major Bodies of Work and Recent Gift From Herbert Lust, Feb. 27, 2026–Jan. 31, 2027

September 18, 2025
Hirshhorn Museum
Exhibitions

Spliced image of a white technical stereo on the left and a man in a studio with large speakers on the right.

"Art of Noise" Exhibition Tracing History of Music and Design to Open at Cooper Hewitt

Featuring Over 300 Works and Immersive Audio Installations by Teenage Engineering and Devon Turnbull

September 10, 2025
Cooper Hewitt
Exhibitions

Black background with white graphic lines and white letters in the center

Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Explores Prevalence of American Indian Images, Words and Stories in American History and Contemporary Life

“Americans” Begins Simultaneous Tours in Kansas, Kentucky and Colorado

Large wooden boat sits in well-lit conservation space.

National Museum of American History Opens New Exhibition of the Revolutionary War-Era Gunboat “Philadelphia”

Visitors Can Follow the Ongoing Conservation Work on an American Treasure

Picture of a girl in a white dress with large ballgown standing in front of a red car.

Lowrider Exhibitions Set To Cruise Into the Smithsonian

National Tour Launches Sept. 13 and National Museum of American History Exhibition Opens Sept. 26

A fighter plane with narrow nose and wide wings in a light gray color flies above the clouds.

F-15C Eagle Joins National Air and Space Museum Collection

First F-15 Fighter Jet to be Displayed at the Udvar-Hazy Center

A small one-person plane in light gray sits on the floor of a museum gallery.

National Air and Space Museum Displays Advanced Air Mobility Aircraft

Wisk Gen 3 Full-Scale Prototype on Display at the Udvar-Hazy Center

Multimedia piece of an abstract figure looking through a window with rails.

Archives of American Art Presents “Breaking Down Walls: Art as a Portal for the Incarcerated”

Exhibition Will Be on View Sept. 5–Jan. 18, 2026

“World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation”

Allan and Shelley Holt Innovations Gallery: “Aerospace and Our Changing Environment”

Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater

view into the gallery with space suits space models

“Futures in Space”

“Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight”

An industrial room with purple fabric.

Cooper Hewitt Presents "Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne"

June 18, 2025
Cooper Hewitt
Exhibitions

Textile in warm colors with floral designs, a cows face and lettering.

“State Fairs: Growinreg American Craft” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery Explores the Stories of Craft Artists at the Fairgrounds

Groundbreaking Exhibition Featuring Showstopping Spectacles, From a Life-size Butter Cow to Big Tex’s Size 96 Boots, Opens Aug. 22

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