See some 30 contemporary Native baskets that examine the ways in which baskets and their makers are literally and symbolically "carriers of culture."

Part I of this exhibition features U.S. stamps from before 1894 from the Benjamin K. Miller Collection. 

Approximately 135 works of art represent the rich diversity of Akan gold work and royal regalia from Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa (primarily from the region formerly known as the Gold Coast).

On view are 20 panels depicting items in the collections of each of the 20 Smithsonian Institution Libraries and some 12 books that reveal the breadth and variety of the Libraries' holdings.

Janet Elliott Wulsin's photographs of the region's tribes, people, and landscapes; reproductions of hand-painted lantern slides; and excerpts from her personal letters.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the creation of Jim Henson's Muppets, on view are several cases featuring his groundbreaking work in puppetry and animatronics.

The promotion of tourism in 19th-century America through the "constructed" pastoral landscape is explored through the museum's extraordinary collections of oil studies, drawings, watercolors, and photographs.

In this fourth installment of the Solos exhibition series, French designer Matali Crasset uses a variety of media to explore living spaces by transforming them into areas of experimentation and mobility.

Explore the challenges and issues that confronted Filipinos from the annexation of the Philippines as a U.S. colony in 1898 to their struggles to acquire full U.S. citizenship during the 20th century through some 30 photo panels and images.

Scottish artist Jeff Lambie transforms the museum's lobby into a lively, colorful, immersive environment that includes one of his signature taped floor pieces from his Zobop series and a group of sculptures.

Marking the 200th anniversary of the expedition, the exhibition includes more than 400 artifacts -- together for the first time since 1806 -- that emphasize the cultural encounters of the journey. 

This exhibition explores the physical forms, rituals of use, and social meanings of eating utensils through the museum's permanent collection of cutlery produced in Europe and the U.S. from 1500 to the present.

View an exhibit of ceramics, mixed media and couture from the artist Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo, b. 1969).

 Photographer and artist Will Wilson (Navajo) creates an imagined environment to show what the Navajos' relationship to the land might be like in the distant future.

This exhibition takes a look at the contemporary approach of examining the objects within Chinese paintings for their symbolic meanings, such as longevity and good fortune, and for their social and political commentary.

For a single 8-hour period using simple materials (paper, pens, tables, chairs, ladders, a "boom box"), New York-based artist Oliver Herring (b. 1964, Germany) creates Task on the Hirshhorn plaza as part of the Directions series.