The story of the slave trade is told from a maritime perspective through more than 200 objects and images.

The exhibition recalls Catlin's installation of his Indian Gallery as he displayed it during his tours of Europe in the 1840s, with works hung salon-style, one-atop-another and side-by-side.

This exhibition features the work of six contemporary African artists and explores the important histories of migration and the negotiations of artistic, cultural, personal, and group identities among African artists who make up the growing and significant diaspora of practicing artists now living in Europe and America.

This comprehensive display of photographs focuses on the historic events affecting Korean immigration, and on the achievements of Korean Americans.

Biodiversity is the topic of this 8th annual orchid exhibition co-sponsored by the Smithsonian Horticulture Services Division and the U.S. Botanic Garden.

Whistler completed 90 pastels while in Venice between September 1879 and November 1880, capturing the varied moods of the watery city.

On view are business records, photographs, and marketing materials related to the careers of 4 successful American businesswomen.

View exhibits presenting the histories, contemporary lives, and traditions among the Native communities of the Huatulco-Huamelula region of Oaxaca, Mexico.

This exhibition, on view in 2 rotations, features 15 paintings and 32 woodblock prints from the entertainment and theater districts, and pleasure quarters of Japan's great cities during the Edo period.

This small exhibition of tea ceremony paraphernalia looks at the less familiar side of tea-drinking customs during the Edo period.

Examines how images by Euro-American photographers created and perpetuated ideas and sentiments about the peoples of central Africa.

On view in this case is a life-size, color illustration of a green-backed golden pheasant, found in the library-bound A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants (1872).

On view in this case are examples of indigenous holiday foods: wild turkey, corn, and squash, along with an explanation of how they evolved.

On view are 50 photographs taken by Ricardo Alvarado after WWII that document Filipino life and history in the U.S.

Explore this comprehensive collection of 1847 stamps and covers, selected from a philatelic album of more than 1,000 pages currently housed in Switzerland.  

Her first solo museum show features 7 works, including the never-before-exhibited Dog Day Afternoon 1999, in which Brown's body markings are part of the composition.