On view are winners in various categories from the 2010 Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards.

To celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month in April, this case features Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet,Tony Bennet's oil painting of Ella Fitzgerald, and other jazz artifacts.

See some 60 photographs of Sioux Indians from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show taken by photographer Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934).

This exhibition presents portraits-- many on view for the first time -- that reside in private Washington, D.C., collections.

Preview of the museum's largest exhibition of ancient Egyptian mummies and artifacts. Full exhibition opened Nov. 17, 2011.

See two of Laurent Grasso's video works that depict strange interfaces between the natural world and humankind.

On view are archival materials related to the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, the world’s first integrated all-female big band.

This exhibition features works by four extraordinary artists, who are creating works of superior craftsmanship that address the classic craft notion of function without sacrificing a contemporary aesthetic: Cliff Lee, Matthias Pliessnig, Judith Schaecter, Ubaldo Vitali.

Some 54 works by internationally renowned glass artist Preston Singletary (Tlingit) illustrate his evolution as an artist over the past two decades.

The video History of Chemistry I by renowned Chinese photographer and video artist Lu Chunsheng is on view.

This exhibition features fashion and textile designs from Sonia Delaunay's Atelier Simultané in Paris in the 1920s through 1940s.

Learn about the evolution of Chinese food in the U.S. and the long history of Chinese immigration in this case.

Learn about COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, one of the first computer-programming languages to run successfully on different brands of computers, in this case.

The exhibition features approximately 50 paintings, drawings, and photographs by Ault and his contemporaries, including the well-known artists Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth, as well as recently rediscovered painters Edward Biberman and Dede Plummer.

Featured are Alexander Calder's three-dimensional wire portraits alongside contemporary documents by other artists.

See the first in a series of artist interpretations of materials at the Archives, featuring artist Terence Gower's innovative site-specific exhibition and installation project.

Dolls from Native cultures throughout the Western Hemisphere are on view.

Majestic 6th-century Chinese Buddhist sculpture is combined with 21st-century 3D-imaging technology in this exploration of one of the most important groups of Buddhist devotional sites in early medieval China.

This exhibition is the first survey of artworks in the United States by postwar German painter Blinky Palermo.

This exhibition explores the historical significance of Van Cleef & Arpels's contributions to jewelry design in the 20th century.