Illustrations from medieval Armenian illuminated gospels purchased by gallery founder Charles Lang Freer are on view.

14 works on paper from India's Mughal dynasty and Rajput courts show contrasting use of nature in Islamic and Hindu art in the 15th to 19th centuries.

This exhibition includes sections on campaigning, debates, and political "gimmicks", and large collection of campaign artifacts.

This exhibition features 27 photographs of 7 American presidents by New York Times photographer George Tames (1919-1994).

This exhibition reunites more than 20 of the 1918 Inverted Jenny stamps.

The oldest human-form statues ever found in the Near East.

Some 150 paintings, prints, musical instruments, photographs, clips, and memorabilia create a portrait of the 50-year career of this musician.

Large-scale, monochromatic paintings by this artist address traditional Korean green-glaze pottery within the context of Western modern abstraction. 

This exhibition recounts the origin and early years of the Smithsonian Institution -- from British scientist James Smithson's last will and testament of 1826 through the administrations of the Institution's first 2 Secretaries, Joseph Henry and Spencer Fullerton Baird.

Editorial cartoons and contemporary accounts shed light on the events surrounding the 1971 Postal Reform Act, which transformed the Post Office Department, then a federal agency, into the United States Postal Service.

A rotating selection of objects from the collection of Jeanette Cantrell Rudy sheds light on the Federal Duck Stamp program.

Miniatures and models illustrate the diversity and ingenuity of the cultures and peoples of the North Pacific.

Works in diverse media trace an attitude of social and cultural dismay among 10 internationally based artists.

The life and work of Edmonia Lewis, a nineteenth-century African American sculptor.

On view are 125 bronze, stone, and wooden objects made in India for puja, an act of personal devotion to a deity.

These 40 uniquely designed, hand-crafted envelopes, submitted by professional calligraphers from around the world, illustrate different calligraphic methods and styles.