Current Exhibitions

My Visit

A Collector's Eye: Freer in Egypt

Freer acquired a range of works, including the renowned Washington Codex—one of the oldest Bibles in the world—a digital copy of which will be on view along with an exceptional group of New Kingdom Egyptian glass vessels, a Byzantine jewelry set, amulets, and hundreds of beads, many of which will be seen in this exhibition for the first time.

January 28, 2023 – Ongoing

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery
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Abraham Lincoln by W.F.K. Travers

The life size portrait of Abraham Lincoln by W.F.K. Travers joins the America's Presidents exhibition.

February 10, 2023 – December 31, 2027

Portrait Gallery
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Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen

Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen is landmark exhibition of new and recent paintings as well as a single-channel video work.

April 4, 2025 – January 3, 2027

Hirshhorn Museum
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Afterlife: Ancient Chinese Jades

A construction boom in China more than a century ago resulted in new railways and factories—and the accidental discovery of scores of rich ancient cemeteries. Buried in these tombs for thousands of years were jewelry and ritual objects, all laboriously crafted from jade.

October 14, 2017 – Indefinitely

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery
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America's Presidents

The nation’s only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House tells the American story through the individuals who have shaped it.

September 22, 2017 – Permanent

Portrait Gallery
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American Art through 1940

Artworks that connect with major moments in America’s past, from early America to the settlement of the western frontier, the Civil War, and the Gilded Age.

July 1, 2006 – Ongoing

American Art Museum
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Ancient Yemen: Incense, Art, and Trade

The fine alabaster statues and metalworks display the masterful skills of artists from ancient Yemen, who blended local ideas and Greek and Roman inspirations into new creations, underscoring the region’s remarkable artistic and cultural cosmopolitanism.

September 3, 2022 – Ongoing

Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery
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Art and Industry: China's Ancient Houma Foundry: Chinese Bronzes

The largest bronze foundry complex from antiquity was excavated at Houma in northern China in the mid-twentieth century. At the two-acre site, archaeologists discovered evidence of extremely sophisticated manufacturing techniques.

October 14, 2017 – Indefinitely

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery
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Art in Industry

Art in Industry looks back at a time when Americans embraced artistic skills as a way to build a consumer-oriented industrial economy.

March 22, 2018 – TBA

American History Museum
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Artist to Artist

Paired artworks, each representing two figures whose trajectories intersected at a creatively crucial moment.

October 1, 2021 – August 2, 2026

American Art Museum
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Barbara Kruger: Belief + Doubt

Barbara Kruger creates this immersive site-specific piece that explores themes of democracy, doubt, and belief.

August 20, 2012 – Ongoing

Hirshhorn Museum
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Basquiat × Banksy

Basquiat’s Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump (1982) and Banksy’s response, Banksquiat, are placed in dialogue.

September 29, 2024 – October 26, 2025

Hirshhorn Museum
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Benin Bronzes

These artworks were some of the 29 pieces that were legally transferred to their country of origin, Nigeria, in fall 2022.

June 3, 2024 – December 31, 2026

African Art Museum
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Big Band

“Big Band” by American painter LeRoy Neimanm features a composition of 18 iconic jazz musicians, together in what he envisioned to be his “dream” band.

March 31, 2015 – Indefinitely

American History Museum
My Visit

Body Image: Arts of the Indian Subcontinent

This exhibition explores concepts and aesthetics of the body. The theme of the body provides a portal for appreciating how India’s extraordinary culture is woven from distinctive but interrelated traditions.

October 14, 2017 – Indefinitely

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery
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Bravo!

Bravo! showcases individuals who have brought the performing arts to life.

July 1, 2006 – Indefinitely

Portrait Gallery
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Center of the World: China and the Silk Road

This wealthy, worldly hub offered a ready market for exotic imports that local artisans translated into a Chinese style.

October 14, 2017 – Indefinitely

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery
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Champions

Champions salutes the dynamic American sports figures whose impact extends beyond the athletic realm and makes them a part of the larger story of the nation.

July 1, 2006 – Indefinitely

Portrait Gallery
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Connecting Stories at the National Museum of Asian Art

Let Connecting Stories inspire you to explore our collections further and to develop your own connection to the stories at the museum.

April 29, 2023 – Ongoing

Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery
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Currents: Water in African Art

The objects in Currents span the continent of Africa to explore the importance of water for both practical and artistic purposes.

July 15, 2016 – Indefintely

African Art Museum
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Cut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs

Cut + Paste showcases seventeen Japanese artists who pushed the limits of printmaking and photography and whose experimental works blur reality, memory, and even how we perceive space and time.

June 21, 2025 – November 30, 2025

Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery
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Do Ho Suh: Public Figures

A special edition of Do Ho Suh's work Public Figures is the first new sculpture installed outside the historic Freer Gallery of Art in over three decades.

April 27, 2024 – April 29, 2029

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery
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Engaging the Senses: Arts of the Islamic World

Every region, province, and even city developed its own artistic language with rich sensory resonances, many of which are explored in these galleries.

October 14, 2017 – Indefinitely

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery
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Experience America

Through New Deal programs, the federal government paid artists to paint and sculpt and urged them to look to the nation’s land and people for subjects.

August 14, 2014 – Ongoing

American Art Museum
My Visit

Explore! with the National Portrait Gallery

Explore! is a space where kids (ages 18 months to 8 years old accompanied by an adult) can experiment with portraiture hands-on. Hours are subject to change.

January 28, 2017 – Indefinitely

Portrait Gallery

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