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What’s On
Featured events and exhibitions
Featured Exhibitions
With more than two hundred exhibitions to choose from,
we've highlighted select exhibitions from across our museums and zoo.
What's New
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Reasons to Gather: Japanese Tea Practice Unwrapped
April 12, 2025 – April 26, 2026 Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery
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Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen
April 4, 2025 – January 3, 2027 Hirshhorn Museum
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Delighting Krishna: Paintings of the Child-God
March 15, 2025 – August 24, 2025 Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery
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Making a Statement
February 28, 2025 – March 2026 American Indian Museum DC
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We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists
February 21, 2025 – June 22, 2025 Renwick Gallery
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Body Transformed: Contemporary South Asian Photographs and Prints
February 15, 2025 – August 17, 2025 Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery
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Asia Trail
January 24, 2025 – Indefinitely National Zoo
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Tsedaye Makonnen: Sanctuary :: መቅደስ :: Mekdes
December 13, 2024 – Ongoing African Art Museum
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In Slavery's Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World
December 13, 2024 – June 8, 2025 African American History and Culture Museum
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The Print Generation
November 16, 2024 – April 27, 2025 Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery
Opening Soon
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InSight: Photos and Stories from the Archives
May 23, 2025 – TBD American Indian Museum DC
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From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography’s Formative Years
June 20, 2025 – June 7, 2026 Portrait Gallery
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Cut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs
June 21, 2025 – November 20, 2025 Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery
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Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall
Anticipated to Open in 2025 – Indefinitely Air and Space Museum
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Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight
Anticipated to Open in 2025 – Indefinitely Air and Space Museum
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Aerospace and Our Changing Environment
Anticipated to Open in 2025 – Ongoing Air and Space Museum
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Amy Sherald: American Sublime
September 19, 2025 – February 22, 2026 Portrait Gallery
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Corazón y vida: Lowrider Culture
October 3, 2025 – TBD American History Museum
Closing Soon
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The Print Generation
November 16, 2024 – April 27, 2025 Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery
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Janet Echelman's 1.8 Renwick
September 18, 2020 – May 13, 2025 Renwick Gallery
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Powerful Partnerships: Civil War-Era Couples
July 1, 2022 – May 18, 2025 Portrait Gallery
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Island
August 16, 2024 – June 8, 2025 American Art Museum
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Picturing the Presidents: Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes from the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection
May 31, 2024 – June 8, 2025 Portrait Gallery
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Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery
April 19, 2023 – June 8, 2025 Renwick Gallery
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In Slavery's Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World
December 13, 2024 – June 8, 2025 African American History and Culture Museum
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We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists
February 21, 2025 – June 22, 2025 Renwick Gallery
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return
October 18, 2024 – July 6, 2025 Portrait Gallery
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Sublime Light: Tapestry Art of DY Begay
September 20, 2024 – July 13, 2025 American Indian Museum DC
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OSGEMEOS: Endless Story
September 29, 2024 – August 3, 2025 Hirshhorn Museum
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Making Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial
November 2, 2024 – August 10, 2025 Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
Don't Miss
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OSGEMEOS: Endless Story
September 29, 2024 – August 3, 2025 Hirshhorn Museum
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Sightlines: Chinatown and Beyond
September 7, 2024 – November 30, 2025 American Art Museum
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Benin Bronzes
June 3, 2024 – December 31, 2026 African Art Museum
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Cellphone: Unseen Connections
June 23, 2023 Through 2026 Natural History Museum
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One World Connected
October 14, 2022 – Indefinitely Air and Space Museum
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The Peacock Room Comes to America
September 3, 2022 – Indefinitely Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery
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¡Presente! A Latino History of the United States
June 18, 2022 – Indefinitely American History Museum
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The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room
March 5, 2022 – Ongoing Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery
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Laurie Anderson: Four Talks
September 24, 2021 – Ongoing Hirshhorn Museum
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Americans
January 18, 2018 – Indefinitely American Indian Museum DC
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America's Presidents
September 22, 2017 – Permanent Portrait Gallery
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American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
June 28, 2017 – Permanent American History Museum
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Musical Crossroads
September 24, 2016 – Permanent African American History and Culture Museum
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Slavery and Freedom
September 24, 2016 – Permanent African American History and Culture Museum
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Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations
September 21, 2014 – January 17, 2028 American Indian Museum DC
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The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem
November 21, 2008 – Permanent American History Museum
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Cold War Aviation
December 15, 2003 – Permanent Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center
Kids' Favorites
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Thomas W. Haas We All Fly
October 14, 2022 – Permanent Air and Space Museum
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Really BIG Money
April 8, 2022 – Indefinitely American History Museum
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The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time
June 8, 2019 – Permanent Natural History Museum
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Explore! with the National Portrait Gallery
January 28, 2017 – Indefinitely Portrait Gallery
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Pumpkin
December 10, 2016 – Indefinitely Hirshhorn Museum
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Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
September 24, 2016 – Indefinitely African American History and Culture Museum
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Wegmans Wonderplace
December 9, 2015 – Indefinitely American History Museum
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Spark!Lab
July 1, 2015 – Indefinitely American History Museum
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Patrick F. Taylor Foundation Object Project
July 1, 2015 – Permanent American History Museum
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American Trail
September 1, 2012 – Permanent National Zoo
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As We Grow: Traditions, Toys, Games
August 22, 2012 – Permanent American Indian Museum DC
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Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt
November 17, 2011 – Permanent Natural History Museum
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Sant Ocean Hall
September 27, 2008 – Permanent Natural History Museum
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Butterfly Pavilion
February 15, 2008 – Ongoing Natural History Museum
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Human Spaceflight
November 1, 2004 – Permanent Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center
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Kids' Farm
June 12, 2004 – Permanent National Zoo
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America on the Move
November 22, 2003 – Permanent American History Museum
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Kenneth E. Behring Family Hall of Mammals
November 15, 2003 – Permanent Natural History Museum
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Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
September 20, 1997 – Permanent Natural History Museum
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Insect Zoo, O. Orkin
September 10, 1993 – Permanent Natural History Museum
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Moving the Mail
July 30, 1993 – Permanent Postal Museum
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The Dolls' House
Opened 1951 – Indefinitely American History Museum
