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.
- Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture Coming 2020 – TBD American Art Museum
- Meeting Tessai: Modern Japanese Art from the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection Coming 2020 – TBD Sackler Gallery
- The Muppets Take American History Coming 2020 – Indefinitely American History Museum
- Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field Coming 2020 – TBD American Indian Museum
- Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field Coming 2020 – TBD American Indian Museum Heye Center
- Janet Echelman's 1.8 Renwick Coming 2020 – TBD Renwick Gallery
- One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection Coming 2020 – TBD Hirshhorn
- Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa April 11, 2020 – December 31, 2021 African Art Museum
- Jon Gray of Ghetto Gastro Selects April 24, 2020 – October 25, 2020 Cooper Hewitt
- Visionary: The Cumming Family Collection Coming 2020 – TBD Portrait Gallery
- Steel and Sky: Views of New York City May 8, 2020 – October 25, 2020 American Art Museum
- Preserving Art: A Chinese Lacquer Screen May 9, 2020 – October 25, 2020 Sackler Gallery
- Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Prints that Made the Fashion Brand May 15, 2020 – December 7, 2020 Cooper Hewitt
- The New Garden May 15, 2020 – October 4, 2020 Cooper Hewitt
- Laurie Anderson: The Weather May 19, 2020 – September 7, 2020 Hirshhorn
- Picturing Women Inventors May 22, 2020 – TBA American History Museum
- Girlhood! (It's Complicated) June 12, 2020 – January 2, 2022 American History Museum
- Warranted to Give Satisfaction: Daguerreotypes by Jeremiah Gurney Coming 2020 – TBD Portrait Gallery
- Baseball: America's Homerun Coming 2020 – TBD Postal Museum
- Her Story: A Century of Women Writers July 10, 2020 – January 10, 2021 Portrait Gallery
- Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 July 17, 2020 – February 7, 2021 Renwick Gallery
- One Life: Will Rogers Coming 2020 – TBD Portrait Gallery
- ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now September 11, 2020 – January 24, 2021 American Art Museum
- Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight October 9, 2020 – October 3, 2021 American Indian Museum
- Recent Acquisitions: Corcoran Gift Installation October 9, 2020 – October 24, 2021 Portrait Gallery
- I Am an American: Photographs from the East Baltimore Documentary Survey November 20, 2020 – May 2, 2021 American Art Museum
- Bird House National Zoo
- Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands, 1968–2020 May 21, 2021 – January 9, 2022 Portrait Gallery
