This exhibition examines the identities of Native peoples in the 21st century, and how those identities -- both individual and communal -- are the results of deliberate, often difficult choices made in challenging circumstances.

This child-friendly exhibition reveals that most of the food we eat comes from a farm and allows visitors to lend a hand around the farm.

Real Justice was created by Washington, D.C.'s metal sculptor Allen Uzikee Nelson.

On view are more than 50 children's and workers' illustrated metal lunch boxes and beverage containers dating from the 1890s through the 1980s to celebrate the history and endurance of American lunch boxes.

This whimsical sculpture, hanging from the atrium to the refllecting pool, is composed of 21 laminated wood pieces, with each forming the word "monkey" in a dozen different languages.

Some 400 objects from the museum's collection of ballooning memorabilia illustrate how ballooning captured the public's imagination during the 18th century in Europe and America.

More than 160 aircraft are currently on view to illustrate the scope of aviation history, including military, commercial, business, sports, and pre-1920 aviation and vertical flight (helicopters).

This exhibition examines how transportation -- from 1876 to 1999 -- has shaped our American identity.

Travel to four continents to see some 274 mammals in lifelike poses in their natural habitat and learn about what they share in common and what makes them unique.

This exhibition presents the Wrights' technical achievements and examines the cultural impact of early powered flight.

Important works from the Freer's collection of Japanese religious art are exhibited.

This open-air exhibition is home to both ring-tailed and red-fronted lemurs.

This outdoor exhibition brings to life the great distances between the planets through a scale model of our solar system at one ten-billionth actual size .

Learn what scientists think our universe is like, how the present scientific view of the universe came to be, how our universe is being shaped today, and what mysteries remain.

The house and the exhibition that surrounds it tell the stories of five of the many families who lived there from the mid-1760s to 1945 and made history in their kitchens and parlors, through everyday choices and personal acts of courage and sacrifice.

The Victory Garden represents a typical vegetable garden planted during World War II, when growing food for home consumption was an important part of the war effort.

This panel display reveals the history of the west wing of the Castle -- from its first use as the Institution's library to its use as The Commons dining room (through June 20, 2004)..

See two huge sculptures of Japanese warriors and a large stone Buddhist sculpture. 

Several levels showcase works by modern masters and emerging artists from the permanent collection in a variety of media.

Twisted Form (Traveler's Guardian Spirit) by Shiro Hayami.