This exhibition features Chinese landscape paintings over a 700-year period -- from the mid-11th to the mid-18th centuries -- that depict recluses and recreational travelers as well as free-roaming mountain sages or gentlemen living in retirement.

View the winning artwork and writing pieces from the 4th Native American Student Artist Competition.

This exhibition showcases the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw's collection of 19th-century watercolor drawings that meticulously detail the era's interior furnishings and document the social, cultural, and aesthetic development of European domestic life.

This exhibition introduces the study of soil science and demonstrates the vital role soil plays in sustaining human welfare, assuring future agricultural productivity, and environmental sustainability.

Explore the creativity and "visual thinking" of artist, puppeteer, film director, and producer Jim Henson (1936-90).

For the first time since the opening of the Freer Gallery of Art in 1923, works from its American collection are shown with works from outside the museum.

On view for the first time is the Smithsonian's own crystal skull.

View 36 finalists from the thousands of photographs submitted to Smithsonian magazine's 5th Annual Photo Contest from the United States and around the world.

See 49 medals and 4 torches, along with photos and stories, that highlight Olympic and Paralympic athletes and their achievements over several decades in a variety of sports.

View letters, photographs, and sketchbooks that reveal the importance of summer art schools to artists' lives and careers.

Explores the phenomenon that in an age when capturing real life in real time becomes ever easier, the line between fact and fiction is increasingly complicated.

Artifacts, along with mechanical and computer interactives, highlight current projects in space exploration

Featured in this exhibition are never before or rarely seen African costumes and textiles.

Artists of mixed Native/non-Native background explore issues about the meaning of race and ethnicity in an increasingly global society, and the tension between individual self-expression and cultural identity.