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Displaying 25 of 5,242 exhibitions.


  • Artists at Work

    This juried exhibition underscores the often-hidden talents within the Smithsonian community with 57 pieces on display.

    March 20, 2024 – March 21, 2025

    Ripley Center

  • Voting by Mail: Civil War to COVID-19

    The presidential election year is the appropriate time to reflect on past examples of national voting by mail.

    August 24, 2024 – February 23, 2025

    Postal Museum

  • Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939

    Brilliant Exiles illuminates the accomplishments of sixty unconventional women who pursued their personal and professional aspirations in Paris.

    April 26, 2024 – February 23, 2025

    Portrait Gallery

  • Inauguration 2025: Donald J. Trump

    A photograph of President-elect Donald J. Trump is displayed to coincide with the 60th presidential inauguration Jan. 20.

    January 13, 2025 – February 11, 2025

    Portrait Gallery

  • (re) Framing Conversations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, 1946-1965

    Twenty Richard Avedon images spanning two decades, curated from the Smithsonian’s photo history collection, are on display.

    December 9, 2022 – February 2, 2025

    American History Museum

  • An Epic of Kings: The Great Mongol Shahnama

    An Epic of Kings offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see twenty-five folios from the now dismantled manuscript—the Great Mongol Shahnama.

    September 21, 2024 – January 12, 2025

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson

    Jackson creates a series of haunting, yet profoundly beautiful and empowering encounters that draw upon African water spirits from Senegal to South Africa.

    April 29, 2023 – January 6, 2025

    African Art Museum

  • Gunboat Philadelphia

    Built in 1776, the gunboat Philadelphia is the oldest American fighting vessel in existence.

    July 3, 1965 – January 6, 2025

    American History Museum

  • Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of Life

    Wheel Of Life fills the Hirshhorn’s second-floor inner-circle galleries with 15 text-and-image-based artworks.

    July 14, 2023 – January 5, 2025

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women

    Learn how the featured artists mastered and subverted the everyday materials of cotton, felt, and wool to create deeply personal artworks.

    May 31, 2024 – January 5, 2025

    Renwick Gallery

  • Baseball: America's Homerun

    The National Postal Museum presents a blockbuster exhibition exploring America’s national pastime.

    April 9, 2022 – January 5, 2025

    Postal Museum

  • Commissioned Portrait of Oprah Winfrey

    Chicago-based artist Shawn Michael Warren painted Winfrey in a purple taffeta dress amidst a lush garden at her California home.

    December 13, 2023 – December 15, 2024

    Portrait Gallery

  • Park Chan-kyong: Gathering

    The exhibition features a range of works that highlight Park’s masterful use of the photographic medium to explore the enduring traces of tradition, history, and disaster in contemporary society. 

    October 7, 2023 – October 14, 2024

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Staging the Supernatural: Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints

    Staging the Supernatural brings together a collection of vibrant, colorful woodblock prints and illustrated books depicting the porous boundary between the real world and the world of supernatural beings in Japanese cultural history.

    March 23, 2024 – October 6, 2024

    Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery

  • Africa Trail

    Cheetahs, ostrich, addaxes, kudus, and a Hartmann’s mountain zebra all reside on Africa Trail.

    August 19, 1992 – September 16, 2024

    National Zoo

  • Reckoning with Remembrance: History, Injustice, and the Murder of Emmett Till

    This display of the defaced historical marker helps preserve the memory of Emmett Till while demonstrating the contested nature of racism’s violent legacy in America.

    April 6, 2024 – September 15, 2024

    American History Museum

  • Imagined Neighbors: Japanese Visions of China, 1680–1980

    The paintings and calligraphy in this exhibition fuse reality with imagination and remain important to understanding the continuing, complex engagement of Japanese artists with China.

    March 16, 2024 – September 15, 2024

    Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery

  • American Bison

    See American bison—the animal that inspired the founding of the National Zoo.

    August 30, 2014 – September 13, 2024

    National Zoo

  • Picturing Women Inventors

    Featuring stories of contemporary and historic women, this display of photos and graphics is dominated by lively, larger-than-life images of woman inventors.

    May 21, 2021 – September 11, 2024

    American History Museum

  • Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice

    William H. Johnson's Fighters for Freedom series is a tribute to African American activists, scientists, teachers, and performers as well as international heads of state working to bring peace to the world.

    March 8, 2024 – September 10, 2024

    American Art Museum

  • Objects of Wonder

    Explore the breadth, scope, and splendor of the world’s most extensive natural history research collection—more than 145 million artifacts and specimens.

    March 10, 2017 – September 8, 2024

    Natural History Museum

  • Sea Monsters Unearthed, Life in Angola's Ancient Seas

    This exhibition explores how these marine reptiles livedin the Cretaceous Period, and immerses visitors in an ancient ocean ecosystem.

    November 9, 2018 – September 3, 2024

    Natural History Museum

  • Nature of the Book

    Nature of the Book explores books of the hand-press era from the use of moveable type in Europe in about 1450 to the rise of mechanization in the 19th century.

    November 11, 2022 – September 3, 2024

    Natural History Museum

  • Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism

    View some of the key people whose work has influenced attitudes toward the environment in the United States from the late 19th century until today.

    October 20, 2023 – September 2, 2024

    Portrait Gallery

  • Staff Picks: Our Favorite Things from the Collection

    This exhibition introduces staff members from the Archives of American Art and items they find special, sometimes for very personal reasons.

    June 1, 2023 – September 1, 2024

    Archives of American Art


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