Current Exhibitions
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- One Life: Frederick Douglass June 16, 2023 – April 21, 2024 Portrait Gallery
- Staff Picks: Our Favorite Things from the Collection June 1, 2023 – September 21, 2025 Archives of American Art
- Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023 May 26, 2023 – March 31, 2024 Renwick Gallery
- Robert Houle: Red Is Beautiful May 25, 2023 – June 2, 2024 American Indian Museum
- Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols May 13, 2023 – September 2, 2024 Cooper Hewitt
- Journey of Color May 4, 2023 – Ongoing Freer Gallery of Art
- Connecting Stories at the National Museum of Asian Art April 29, 2023 – Ongoing Sackler Gallery
- From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson April 29, 2023 – January 6, 2025 African Art Museum
- Mirror, Mirror for Us All: Disney Parks and the American Narrative / Experience April 28, 2023 – April 14, 2024 American History Museum
- Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery April 19, 2023 – Ongoing Renwick Gallery
- The Art of Knowing in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas March 25, 2023 – Ongoing Sackler Gallery
- Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures March 24, 2023 – August 18, 2024 African American History and Culture Museum
- Lights Out: Recovering Our Night Sky March 23, 2023 – December 2025 Natural History Museum
- Bird House March 13, 2023 – Permanent National Zoo
- Smithsonian Stories: African American Groundbreakers March 6, 2023 – Ongoing S. Dillon Ripley Center
- Anyang: China's Ancient City of Kings February 25, 2023 – April 28, 2024 Sackler Gallery
- Abraham Lincoln by W.F.K. Travers February 10, 2023 – December 31, 2027 Portrait Gallery
- A Collector's Eye: Freer in Egypt January 28, 2023 – Ongoing Freer Gallery of Art
- (re) Framing Conversations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, 1946-1965 December 9, 2022 – Ongoing American History Museum
- Entertainment Nation December 9, 2022 – Indefinitely American History Museum
- Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism, and Popular Culture November 18, 2022 – January 2025 African American History and Culture Museum
- Barro Colorado Island 100 Years of Discoveries and Wonder November 18, 2022 Through 2024 Natural History Museum
- Nature of the Book November 11, 2022 – September 3, 2024 Natural History Museum
- Freer's Global Network: Artists, Collectors, and Dealers October 15, 2022 – Ongoing Freer Gallery of Art
- Early Flight October 14, 2022 – Permanent Air and Space Museum
- One World Connected October 14, 2022 – Permanent Air and Space Museum
- The Wright Brothers & the Invention of the Aerial Age October 14, 2022 – Permanent Air and Space Museum
- America by Air October 14, 2022 – Permanent Air and Space Museum