Trace the process of Natural History from the discovery of a whale fossil on a beach to museum drawer to scientific illustration.

See 26 portraits by Time magazine’s most prolific artist, Boris Chaliapin.

Discover Jones's audio collages and the connections between art and music.

In this permanent rotating gallery dedicated to the media arts, the museum examines the history and the latest developments in the art of the moving image.

Learn about the diverse cultures and complex history of Asian Pacific Americans from the first immigrants centuries ago to the challenges they face today.

See how Xu Bing's Phoenix Project -- his newest sculpture on view at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) -- evolved  through drawings, scale models, and construction fragments.

Learn about the complex and visually rich relationship between African artists and the land upon which they live, walk, and frame their days. 

Trace the stories of famous people and events in Chinese history and see how their depictions in art reveal both traditional Chinese values and the universality of human experience.

See how five Native American artists turn a centuries-old tradition of doll making into a contemporary art form.

See how artists over the last 100 years have used objects -- the fragments and detritus in the world around them -- to challenge traditional art media.

This exhibition reveals why a good clock is crucial to navigation -- for 18th-century mariners to current-day GPS users -- and how increasingly accurate timekeeping has influenced how we find our way.

See furniture and images of architectural woodwork produced by Thomas Day (1801-about 1861), a free African American who owned and operated one of North Carolina’s most successful cabinet shops before  the Civil War.

Learn how illustrated books (ehon) in Edo-period Japan (1615-1868) were similar to blogging and e-publications in the 21st century.

Treasures from the museum's collection of Central American ceramics shed new light on the exchange of dynamic ideas about art, culture, politics, and technology within the region’s largely unknown civilizations.

The National Portrait Gallery presents 48 finalists' works that were selected from the third triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.

Learn about the impact of the 1913 women's suffrage march in Washington, DC, the first civil rights parade to use the nation's capital as a backdrop.

Discover how the processes of copying, faking, and duplicating as strategic artistic invention can result in objects that are both recognizable and strange. 

Discover how the merchant and artisan classes during the Edo period in Japan reinterpreted classical Japanese and Chinese literary themes.

See how artists in the Edo period were inspired by natural history paintings to depict birds more accurately.

Learn how the introduction of photography in the United States allowed middle-class families to display their values, aspirations, and achievements.