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.
- More Than a Picture: Selections from the Photography Collection May 5, 2017 – March 8, 2018 African American Museum
- Cultivating America's Gardens May 4, 2017 – September 16, 2018 American History Museum
- American Visionary: John F. Kennedy's Life and Times May 3, 2017 – September 17, 2017 American Art Museum
- Before Internet Cats: Feline Finds from the Archives of American Art April 28, 2017 – October 29, 2017 Archives of American Art
- Innovations in Defense April 20, 2017 – September 18, 2017 American History Museum
- The Glazed Elephant: Ceramic Traditions in Cambodia April 15, 2017 – July 9, 2017 Sackler Gallery
- Celebrate: Ella Fitzgerald April 13, 2017 – May 14, 2017 Portrait Gallery
- Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered April 8, 2017 – July 9, 2017 Sackler Gallery
- The Face of Battle, Americans at War, 9/11 to Now April 7, 2017 – January 28, 2018 Portrait Gallery
- Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years April 7, 2017 – August 20, 2017 Renwick Gallery
- The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s April 7, 2017 – August 20, 2017 Cooper Hewitt
- Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection April 7, 2017 – August 27, 2017 Cooper Hewitt
- Modern Medicine and the Great War April 6, 2017 – August 11, 2019 American History Museum
- Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War April 6, 2017 – November 11, 2018 Air and Space Museum
- My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I April 6, 2017 – December 2, 2018 Postal Museum
- Advertising War April 6, 2017 – February 10, 2019 American History Museum
- Gen. John J. Pershing and World War I, 1917-1918 April 6, 2017 – May 27, 2019 American History Museum
- Uniformed Women in the Great War April 6, 2017 – April 28, 2019 American History Museum
- The First Lady of Song: Ella Fitzgerald at 100 April 1, 2017 – July 15, 2018 American History Museum
- Kung Fu Wildstyle April 1, 2017 – April 30, 2017 Sackler Gallery
- America's Presidents Temporary Installation March 24, 2017 – September 4, 2017 Portrait Gallery
- In Memoriam: Chuck Berry March 21, 2017 – April 9, 2017 Portrait Gallery
- Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image March 11, 2017 – March 6, 2018 American Art Museum
- June Schwarcz: Invention and Variation March 10, 2017 – August 27, 2017 Renwick Gallery
