Current Exhibitions

My Visit

NASA’s Earth Information Center @ NMNH

Explore high-resolution data visualizations, interactive experiences, and videos that share how scientists collect and interpret data.

October 8, 2024 Through 2028

Natural History Museum
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Lights Out: Recovering Our Night Sky

Discover why dark nights matter, rekindle your connection with the night sky, and consider how much light at night is enough.

March 23, 2023 – December 2025

Natural History Museum
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The Wright Brothers & the Invention of the Aerial Age

Explore who Wilbur and Orville Wright were, what they achieved and how they did it, and how the world reacted.

October 14, 2022 – Indefinitely

Air and Space Museum
My Visit

Destination Moon

The gallery shows how an extraordinary combination of things made it possible for humans to walk on the Moon—and how we are going back.

October 14, 2022 – Indefinitely

Air and Space Museum
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The Peacock Room Comes to America

The Peacock Room invites visitors into its captivating environment to to seek out unexpected resonances across cultures and eras.

September 3, 2022 – Indefinitely

Asian Art Museum Freer Gallery
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The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room

The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room includes more than two hundred bronzes, paintings, silk hangings, and carpets that were created in Tibet, China, and Mongolia between the thirteenth and early twentieth centuries.

March 5, 2022 – Ongoing

Asian Art Museum Sackler Gallery
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Laurie Anderson: Four Talks

Laurie Anderson has painted directly on the walls of the Hirshhorn in a stream-of-consciousness manner without preparatory sketches.

September 24, 2021 – Ongoing

Hirshhorn Museum
My Visit

Americans

American Indians represent less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, yet names and images of Indians are everywhere. Americans invites visitors to ask why.

January 18, 2018 – Indefinitely

American Indian Museum DC
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Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts

Visionary offers broad thematic connections between works from across the spectrum of times, places, and media represented in the museum’s holdings.

November 4, 2017 – Permanent

African Art Museum
My Visit

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 Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith

Presents national treasures that represent American democracy—based on the bold American experiment to create a government “of the people, by the people and for the people.”

June 28, 2017 – Permanent

American History Museum
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Greensboro Lunch Counter

The sit-in of four African American college students at this Woolworth counter helped ignite a youth-led movement to challenge inequality throughout the South.

June 28, 2017 – Indefinitely

American History Museum
My Visit

Musical Crossroads

This exhibition tells the story of African American music from the arrival of the first Africans to today’s hip-hop.

September 24, 2016 – Permanent

African American History and Culture Museum
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Slavery and Freedom

This exhibition explores the complex story of slavery and freedom, a story standing at the core of our national experience.

September 24, 2016 – Permanent

African American History and Culture Museum
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American Enterprise

Learn how business and innovation helped the United States develop from a small dependent agricultural nation to one of the world's largest economies.

July 1, 2015 – Permanent

American History Museum
My Visit

Added to My Visit Removed from My Visit

Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations Added

~~Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations~~ Removed

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Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations

Learn about the treaties that lie at the heart of the relationship between Indian nations and the United States.

September 21, 2014 – January 17, 2028

American Indian Museum DC
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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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Gems of American Philately

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

September 22, 2013 – Permanent

Postal Museum
My Visit

Added to My Visit Removed from My Visit

The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem Added

~~The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem~~ Removed

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The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem

The sight of those “broad stripes and bright stars” inspired Francis Scott Key to write a song that eventually became the United States national anthem.

November 21, 2008 – Permanent

American History 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
My Visit

Cold War Aviation

The role of aircraft in the post-World War II competition between superpowers is explored.

December 15, 2003 – Permanent

Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center
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Binding the Nation

This gallery provides an overview of mail service in America from colonial times through the 19th century.

July 30, 1993 – Permanent

Postal Museum