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 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.

See objects related to Olympic gymnast Gabrielle Douglas.

Images from the museum's collection are used to explore the roles individual African Americans played during the Civil War.

Learn how new discoveries shed light on psychiatrist and scholar Paul Singer's collection of Chinese archaeological objects and on ancient life in China.

Learn how two events 100 years apart changed the course of the nation in this exhibition featuring such items as Abraham Lincoln's top hat, Harriet Tubman's shawl, and photographs of the March on Washington.

This exhibition offers an unprecedented view into artist Nam June Paik's creative method.

Winning entries from the 2012 Smithsonian Staff Photo Contest offer a deeper understanding of the Smithsonian and its talented staff.

Learn about early Buddhist sculptures in China during the Tang dynasty.

This mouth-watering exhibition explores the social changes that have changed how we eat and features Julia Child's kitchen.

Explore the boundaries that once defined drawing and portraiture through the works of artists Mequitta Ahuja, Mary Borgman, Adam Chapman, Ben Durham, Till Freiwald, and Rob Matthews.

See works recently aquired by the museum.

View DEMOCRACIA's video project Ser y Durar [To Be and to Last] about a group of traceurs performing parkour in a Madrid cemetery.

Explore how urban waterways, such as the Anacostia River, can be both barriers and economic resources for the community.

Learn how music and dance continue to bind American Indian communities to all living things, to the earth, to the spirit world, and -- when people have deep ancestral claims to their dances -- to the past.

See a wagon that helped America's westward expansion to the Pacific.

Learn about the Census of Marine Life, the most comprehensive inventory of known marine life ever compiled and cataloged.