All Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C., including the National Zoo, and in New York City continue to be closed to support the effort to contain the spread of COVID-19.
- The Four Justices October 28, 2013 – Indefinitely Portrait Gallery
- Dancing the Dream October 17, 2013 – July 13, 2014 Portrait Gallery
- Souvenir Nation: Relics, Keepsakes, and Curios August 9, 2013 – January 28, 2015 Smithsonian Castle
- One Life: Martin Luther King Jr. June 28, 2013 – June 1, 2014 Portrait Gallery
- Little Golden Books June 28, 2013 – January 12, 2014 American History Museum
- Lines, Marks, and Drawings: Through the Lens of Roger Ballen June 19, 2013 – June 30, 2014 African Art Museum
- Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There April 12, 2013 – Permanent Air and Space Museum
- Ceramica de los Ancestros: Central America's Past Revealed March 29, 2013 – February 15, 2015 American Indian Museum
- Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013 March 23, 2013 – February 23, 2014 Portrait Gallery
- Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, and the March on Washington, 1963 December 14, 2012 – September 7, 2014 American History Museum
- Food: Transforming the American Table, 1950-2000 November 20, 2012 – Indefinitely American History Museum
- Portraiture Now: Drawing on the Edge November 16, 2012 – August 18, 2013 Portrait Gallery
- Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets October 12, 2012 – April 28, 2013 Portrait Gallery
- Circle of Dance October 6, 2012 – April 14, 2019 American Indian Museum Heye Center
- Not Lost in Translation: The Life of Clotilde Arias September 27, 2012 – May 12, 2013 American History Museum
- Julia Child’s Kitchen August 15, 2012 – November 19, 2012 American History Museum
- One Life: Amelia Earhart June 29, 2012 – May 27, 2013 Portrait Gallery
- African Cosmos: Stellar Arts June 20, 2012 – December 9, 2012 African Art Museum
- 1812: A Nation Emerges June 15, 2012 – January 27, 2013 Portrait Gallery
- A Will of Their Own: Judith Sargent Murray and Women of Achievement in the Early Republic April 20, 2012 – September 2, 2013 Portrait Gallery
- American Stories April 12, 2012 – January 5, 2020 American History Museum
- IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas February 9, 2012 – October 1, 2012 American Indian Museum Heye Center
- Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty January 27, 2012 – October 14, 2012 American History Museum
- Systems at Work December 14, 2011 – Permanent Postal Museum
