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.
- Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection November 17, 2017 – May 28, 2018 Cooper Hewitt
- Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound November 10, 2017 – January 6, 2019 American Indian Museum Heye Center
- Tamayo: The New York Years November 3, 2017 – March 18, 2018 American Art Museum
- The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers November 3, 2017 – September 3, 2018 Portrait Gallery
- Dizzy Gillespie October 26, 2017 – November 26, 2017 Portrait Gallery
- 22nd Annual Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards October 24, 2017 – September 3, 2018 Natural History Museum
- Beautiful Blooms: Flowering Plants on Stamps October 20, 2017 – July 14, 2019 Postal Museum
- Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death October 20, 2017 – January 28, 2018 Renwick Gallery
- Rick Araluce: The Final Stop October 20, 2017 – January 28, 2018 Renwick Gallery
- Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt October 14, 2017 – January 15, 2018 Sackler Gallery
- Subodh Gupta October 14, 2017 – February 3, 2019 Sackler Gallery
- The Peacock Room Comes to America October 14, 2017 – January 2, 2019 Freer Gallery of Art
- Ancient and Alive: Japan's Native Gods: Japanese Screens October 14, 2017 – April 29, 2018 Freer Gallery of Art
- A Perfect Harmony: American Art October 14, 2017 – April 15, 2019 Freer Gallery of Art
- Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) October 13, 2017 – March 11, 2018 American Art Museum
- Hear, See, Play: Designing with Sound October 13, 2017 – August 26, 2018 Cooper Hewitt
- Ilonka Karasz October 12, 2017 – April 22, 2018 Cooper Hewitt
- Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light October 6, 2017 – January 7, 2018 American Art Museum
- Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age September 27, 2017 – January 15, 2018 Cooper Hewitt
- Your Community, Your Story: Celebrating Five Decades of the Anacostia Community Museum, 1967-2017 September 15, 2017 – January 6, 2019 Anacostia Community Museum
- Passion for the Exotic: Japonism September 9, 2017 – July 22, 2018 Cooper Hewitt
- Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Utopian Projects September 7, 2017 – April 29, 2018 Hirshhorn
- The Virtue in Vice September 6, 2017 – April 15, 2018 Cooper Hewitt
- Celebrating Fifty Years August 11, 2017 – January 6, 2019 Portrait Gallery
