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.
- Pat Steir: Color Wheel October 24, 2019 – September 7, 2020 Hirshhorn
- Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists October 11, 2019 – April 12, 2020 American Art Museum
- Artists at Work October 7, 2019 – Summer 2020 S. Dillon Ripley Center
- Lee Ufan: Open Dimension September 27, 2019 – September 13, 2020 Hirshhorn
- Sacred Dedication: A Korean Buddhist Masterpiece September 21, 2019 – May 31, 2020 Sackler Gallery
- Face Values September 20, 2019 – July 5, 2020 Cooper Hewitt
- My Computing Devices August 28, 2019 – TBA American History Museum
- Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 Spacesuit July 16, 2019 – 2022 Air and Space Museum
- One Life: Marian Anderson June 28, 2019 – May 17, 2020 Portrait Gallery
- Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall June 21, 2019 – 2020 American History Museum
- I Am... Contemporary Women Artists of Africa June 20, 2019 – July 5, 2020 African Art Museum
- Women of Progress: Early Camera Portraits June 14, 2019 – May 31, 2020 Portrait Gallery
- The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time June 8, 2019 – Permanent Natural History Museum
- Nature by Design: Bathing Beautiful June 8, 2019 – May 3, 2020 Cooper Hewitt
- Nature by Design: Plastics June 8, 2019 – May 3, 2020 Cooper Hewitt
- Nature by Design: Botanical Lessons June 8, 2019 – April 10, 2022 Cooper Hewitt
- 75th Anniversary of D-Day June 6, 2019 – TBD American History Museum
- Sculpture Down to Scale: Models for Public Art at Federal Buildings, 1974-1985 May 31, 2019 – March 28, 2021 American Art Museum
- Storied Women of the Civil War Era May 24, 2019 – May 8, 2022 Portrait Gallery
- Mega-toothed Shark May 24, 2019 – Permanent Natural History Museum
- Celebrate Smokey: 75 Years of Fighting Wildfires May 23, 2019 – May 22, 2020 National Zoo
- The Peacock Room in Blue and White May 18, 2019 – Indefinitely Freer Gallery of Art
- Forgotten Workers: Chinese Migrants and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad May 10, 2019 – Early April 2020 American History Museum
- Habitat May 10, 2019 – December 31, 2020 Smithsonian Gardens
