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Exhibitions

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

Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces Native American Artists To Be Featured in Its Renwick Invitational in 2023

  • October 26, 2021
  • American Art Museum
  • Renwick Gallery
  • Exhibitions

Smithsonian Will Debut New Digital “FUTURES Beacons” To Invite Visitors to ‘Time Travel’ to Their Own Future

First-of-Its-Kind Museum Experience Technology From LAB at Rockwell Group Melds Psychology, Gaming, Holograms and Gesture Control
  • October 20, 2021
  • Arts and Industries
  • Exhibitions

What Does It Mean To Be a Native New Yorker?

National Museum of the American Indian’s Newest Exhibition Wants To Change How Visitors See Native People and New York State
  • October 18, 2021
  • American Indian Museum Heye Center
  • Exhibitions

Popular Genome Exhibition Returns to Smithsonian

“Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code” Opens Oct. 21
  • October 14, 2021
  • Natural History Museum
  • Exhibitions

Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents a Global Survey of Contemporary Glass Art at Its Renwick Gallery

“New Glass Now” Challenges Traditional Conceptions of Glass and Introduces New Perspectives
  • October 6, 2021
  • American Art Museum
  • Exhibitions

Smithsonian’s New “FUTURES” Will Blast Through the Space-Time Continuum To Open Saturday, Nov. 20

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
  • October 5, 2021
  • Arts and Industries
  • Exhibitions
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National Museum of African American History and Culture Connects Past, Present and Future Through “Living History” on Fifth Anniversary

New Exhibition “Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and Its Legacies” Now Open
  • September 24, 2021
  • African American Museum
  • Exhibitions
Family outside a plantation

National Museum of African American History and Culture Opens New Exhibition “Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and Its Legacies”

Spotlight Is on African American Visions of Freedom and Unmet Promises Following the Civil War. Exhibition Also Explores the Contemporary Legacies of Reconstruction, Racial Profiling, and Voter Suppression Through Items From the Families of Trayvon Martin
  • September 22, 2021
  • African American Museum
  • Exhibitions

New Exhibition Examines Cultural Exchange Between American Artists and Venetian Glassmakers During the Late 19th Century

“Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano” Opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Oct. 8
  • September 20, 2021
  • American Art Museum
  • Exhibitions

Smithsonian To Reveal the Bell Nexus ‘Air Taxi’ at “FUTURES”

Autonomous Electric Concept Vehicle Will Be Making Its Museum Debut at the Arts and Industries Building in November, Alongside Iconic 1960s Bell Jetpack
  • September 20, 2021
  • Arts and Industries
  • Exhibitions

Breonna Taylor Portrait Featured in New Exhibition at National Museum of African American History and Culture

“Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.” Exhibition Uses Art To Explore the Black Lives Matter Movement, Social Protests and the Struggle for Equality and Freedom
  • September 10, 2021
  • African American Museum
  • Exhibitions

New Augmented-Reality Experience Spotlights Human Connection to the Oceans

“Critical Distance” Will Open Sept. 29
  • September 8, 2021
  • Natural History Museum
  • Exhibitions

National Portrait Gallery Presents “Block by Block: Naming Washington”

Exhibition Explores the People Represented by Washington, D.C.’s Streets and Public Spaces
  • September 7, 2021
  • Portrait Gallery
  • Exhibitions

Smithsonian To Display Emmett Till Historical Marker

National Museum of American History Addresses Anti-Black Violence Through Defaced Sign
  • August 27, 2021
  • American History Museum
  • Exhibitions
NMAAHC

National Museum of African American History and Culture Celebrates Fifth Anniversary

  • August 25, 2021
  • African American Museum
  • Exhibitions
  • Public Programs

Hirshhorn To Present Groundbreaking Artist Laurie Anderson’s Largest US Exhibition to Date

“Laurie Anderson: The Weather” Presents Pioneering, Large-Scale Multimedia Works From 1970s to Present, Opening Sept. 24
  • August 13, 2021
  • Hirshhorn Museum
  • Exhibitions

Cooper Hewitt to Present Largest-Ever Retrospective on Graphic Design Pioneer E. McKnight Kauffer

"Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer" on View Sept. 10 to April 10, 2022
  • August 11, 2021
  • Cooper Hewitt
  • Exhibitions

Hirshhorn To Present North American Premiere of “Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory”

Opening Nov. 19, Presentation Marks the Artist’s First Major Museum Exhibition in the US
  • August 5, 2021
  • Hirshhorn Museum
  • Exhibitions

Anacostia Community Museum Reopens Aug. 6

In-gallery Exhibition “Food for the People: Eating & Activism in Greater Washington” Is Featured
  • August 4, 2021
  • Anacostia Community Museum
  • Exhibitions
Hirshhorn fountain view

Hirshhorn To Wrap Its Building With New Site-Specific Public Artwork by Nicolas Party

Artist’s Largest Work to Date, “Draw the Curtain,” Will Debut on the National Mall Sept. 18 While Building’s Envelope Undergoes Repairs
  • July 22, 2021
  • Hirshhorn Museum
  • Exhibitions
Apartment building with an American flag flown out of a window

“Welcome Home: A Portrait of East Baltimore, 1975–1980”

  • July 16, 2021
  • Media Fact Sheet
  • American Art Museum
  • Exhibitions

National Museum of African Art To Reopen July 16

New Exhibition “Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time” Now Extended to February 2022
  • July 9, 2021
  • African Art Museum
  • Exhibitions

“¡Pleibol!” Slides Into Smithsonian Summer 2021

Exhibition Explores Latina/o Impact Through Baseball Artifacts, Stories and Photos
  • June 29, 2021
  • American History Museum
  • Exhibitions
museum exterior

Hokusai’s Breathtaking and Rarely Seen Wave Painting Will Go on View When the Freer Gallery of Art Reopens July 16

  • June 29, 2021
  • Asian Art Museum
  • Exhibitions
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