This ground-breaking exhibition explores the theme of destruction in international contemporary visual culture.

Explore how the meanings of yoga changed over time as it became a global phenomenom through more than 120 masterpieces, including 10 folios from the first illustrated compilation of asanas made for a Mughal emperor in 1602 that have never been shown in the United States.

See a collection of modern baskets that reveal the central role basketry has played in the everyday life of Americans.

See ceramics by Wayne Higby, one of the most innovative second-generation artists coming out of the post-World War II American ceramic studio movement.

Explore the relationship between the art of dance and the evolution of a modern American identity through images of performers, choreographers, and impresarios.

See stamps that have shaped history and honored people and places around the world.

Trace the journeys of three historic letters by analyzing different kinds of mail markings. 

Browse tens of thousands of stamps, mail, medals, dies, and other artifacts from the National Philatelic Collection.

Examine a 1918 Inverted Jenny and 12 other philatelic gems that are rarely on view.

Explore your own connection with stamps, create your own stamp design, and learn how stamps are produced.

Browse stamps from every country that has ever produced stamps -- including countries that no longer exist!

Captivating images by photojournalist Brian Skerry reveal the mystery and beauty of the undersea world.

Discover how mud masons maintain the spectacular traditional architecture of Djenne, Mali, in the modern world.

Through larger-than-life sculptures, learn how some of the smallest creatures in the ocean -- ocean pteropods (“sea butterflies”) -- are faring in the face of increasing ocean acidification. 

See how Native Anishinaabe artists past and present have been inspired by their deep indigenous roots in the Great Lakes region.

What is a souvenir? What becomes a souvenir? Find out in this exhibition!

See how three late-20th-century photographers view the American landscape -- as drive-through scenery rather than the entrancing wilderness of the 19th century.

Witness the modern technological marvel that is the spacesuit.

See how contemporary artists have depicted flight and space. 

Angela Palmer's glass sculpture captures the excitement of the Kepler Space Observatory's quest for planets that might fit the criteria for life: not too hot, not too cold, but just right.