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A Century in the Making: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture

This exhibit explores the journey toward fulfillment of the long-held dream of building the museum.

September 24, 2016 – Permanent

African American History and Culture Museum
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A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond

This exhibition illustrates the impact of African Americans on life in the United States—social, economic, political, and cultural.

September 24, 2016 – Permanent

African American History and Culture Museum
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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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Aerobatic Flight

Learn about the exhilarating and precise flying known as aerobatic flight.

December 15, 2003 – Permanent

Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center
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Aerospace and Our Changing Environment

Learn how aerospace innovations contribute to understanding, monitoring, and mitigating climate change.

July 28, 2025 – Ongoing

Air and Space Museum
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African Elephant

Our iconic 12-ton, 14-foot-tall African Elephant has undergone a remake! The new setting explores the evolution of elephants from their earliest predecessors to the three modern-day species.

September 4, 2015 – Permanent

Natural History Museum
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African Voices

This exhibition examines the diversity, dynamism, and global influence of Africa's peoples and cultures.

December 15, 1999 – Permanent

Natural History 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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Airmail in America

This exhibition examines the critical role the postal system played in the creation of America's commercial aviation industry.

February 22, 2006 – Permanent

Postal Museum
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Always Ready: Firefighting in the 19th Century

Explores how the role of citizens in fighting fire changed dramatically over the 19th century along with the technology.

September 16, 2016 – Indefinitely

American History Museum
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Amazonia

Venture to Amazonia and get up close to the animals that thrive along the Amazon River—the largest river basin in the world.

November 18, 1992 – Permanent

National Zoo
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America by Air

America by Air traces the history of commercial aviation in the United States from airmail to airlines.

October 14, 2022 – Permanent

Air and Space Museum
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America on the Move

This exhibition examines how transportation—from 1876 to 1999—has shaped our American identity.

November 22, 2003 – Permanent

American History Museum
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America's Listening

America's Listening tells the story of recorded sound and innovations that contributed to how we consume music and movies today.

October 19, 2018 – Indefinitely

American History Museum
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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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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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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
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American Trail

American Trail is where Zoo visitors can learn about animals native to the U.S. and Canada, many of which have come back from the brink of extinction and are thriving thanks to conservation efforts.

September 1, 2012 – Permanent

National Zoo
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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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Ancestral Connections

Ancestral Connections explores how ten contemporary artists draw on aspects of their heritage—sometimes combined with personal experiences or tribal history—to create new and compelling works of art.

May 4, 2019 – Ongoing

American Indian Museum New York
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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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Applications Satellites

See how applications satellites have become an integral part of contemporary life.

November 1, 2004 – Permanent

Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center

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