See 16 stamps from Roosevelt's collection, including several bearing his own designs.

Drawn from the museum's extensive collection of ceramic works, 14 vessels represent various regions of the African continent.

The National Zoo is home to hundreds of birds from all over the world.

Remembering Marshall and the leaders with whom he helped shape history for much of the twentieth century.

Original props, models, costumes, characters, and artwork from the Star Wars trilogy are used to compare elements of the films to elements of mythology, following a classic mythological "hero's journey."

150 Yup'ik Eskimo objects from the Yukon, Kuskokwim, and coastal southwestern Alaska are on view.

Seven artists who have appropriated the traditional Igbo designs called uli.

Some 100 paintings, miniatures, manuscripts, and memorabilia evoke the life and milieu of novelist Edith Wharton.

Some 100 photographs survey the work of 19th-century American photographer Mathew Brady.

This showcase features a 11.5-meter tubular core sample that shows physical and biological effects of Earth's collision with a giant asteroid 65 million years ago, which resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs.

This exhibition traces the competition in space between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union from its origins in the 1950s to the recent international cooperation.

On view are 20 portraits from an exhibition, which toured the U.S. from 1944 through 1954, entitled Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin.

French poster artist Paul Colin (1892-1985), published a portfolio of vividly colored lithographs titled "Le Tumulte Noir" ("The Black Craze") which captured the exuberant jazz music and dance that dazzled Paris in the 1920s.

Two showcases feature 8 vintage guitars and 2 amps that trace the history of the electric guitar and the people involved -- the manufacturers, players, makers, and inventors.

Works by 14 contemporary American artists address the unity, variety, and continuity of American culture.

This interactive gallery explains the basic principles of air and space flight through hands-on activities.

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.

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.

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