Current Exhibitions

My Visit

Rediscovering Korea's Past: Korean Ceramics

Today we admire the translucent gray-green celadon glaze on Korean ceramics of the Goryeo period as one of the great achievements of world potters.

October 14, 2017 – Indefinitely

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery
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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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Looking Out, Looking In: Art in Late Imperial China

Many of the powerful emperors of China’s last dynasties—the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1912)—were patrons, collectors, and casual practitioners of the arts. They used art to legitimize and glorify their rule. It served many functions: for state rituals, for expressing piety, to dazzle palace visitors, to build diplomatic relations, and for personal pleasure.

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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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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Folk and Self-Taught Art

These galleries serve as a reminder that not all artists are formally trained and that the making of art is as much an act of passion as of intellect.

October 21, 2016 – Ongoing

American Art Museum
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Visual Art and the American Experience

This art exhibition illustrates the critical role that African American artists played in shaping the history of American art.

September 24, 2016 – Permanent

African American History and Culture Museum
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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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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
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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
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National Stamp Salon

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

September 22, 2013 – Permanent

Postal Museum
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World of Stamps

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

September 22, 2013 – Permanent

Postal Museum
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Stamps Around the Globe

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

September 22, 2013 – Permanent

Postal 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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Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian

Features 700 works of Native art from throughout North, Central, and South America.

October 23, 2010 – Ongoing

American Indian Museum New York
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The Struggle for Justice

This exhibition showcases major cultural and political figures who struggled to achieve civil rights for disenfranchised or marginalized groups.

February 12, 2010 – Permanent

Portrait 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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Twentieth-Century Americans

Four galleries showcase the major cultural, scientific, and political figures of the 20th century.

July 1, 2006 – Permanent

Portrait 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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Luce Foundation Center for American Art

The first visible art storage and study center in Washington showcases more than 3,300 artworks from the museum's permanent collection.

July 1, 2006 – Permanent

American Art Museum
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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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Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900

Portraits of Indigenous Americans, European colonists, clergymen, soldiers, writers, performers, scientists, and others who helped shape the country.

July 1, 2006 – Permanent

Portrait Gallery
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Window on Collections

These permanent displays feature more than 3,500 items from the museum's collection that reveal the remarkable breadth and diversity of Native American objects.

September 21, 2004 – Permanent

American Indian Museum DC

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