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Robert M. Pirsig’s 1966 Honda Super Hawk Motorcycle. Photograph by Jaclyn Nash, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
“Zen and the Open Road” To Feature Most Famous Forgotten MotorcycleOn View in the National Museum of American History’s Transportation Gallery  04.09.2024American History MuseumExhibitions
National Archives, Washington, DC | Transcript: Originally published in *Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties*, compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, 1904; digitized by Oklahoma State University.
Quapaw Treaty of 1818 To Go On View at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian  04.03.2024American Indian MuseumExhibitions
Unidentified Maker*​​, Crazy Star*; ca. 1920​​, Arthur, Illinois​​, cotton and wool; 74 x 63 1⁄2 in. (detail), Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown, Promised gift to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
New Exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Examines Traditional and Innovative Designs by Amish Women QuiltersPresentation Features Recent Gift From Collectors Faith and Stephen Brown  03.27.2024American Art MuseumExhibitionsNew AcquisitionsSmithsonian Craft Show Opens May 1The Country’s Best Contemporary Craft for Purchase at Juried Event  03.27.2024ExhibitionsPublic Programs
“Josephine Baker” by Waléry, gelatin silver print, 1926. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
National Portrait Gallery Presents “Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939”On View April 26–Feb. 23, 2025  03.27.2024Portrait GalleryExhibitionsSmithsonian Sports Invention Exhibition Will Have People Rethinking Their Game“Change Your Game”/“Cambia tu juego” Opens March 15 at the National Museum of American History  03.11.2024American History MuseumExhibitionsSmithsonian American Women’s History Museum Launches First Digital ExhibitionLynda Carter Joins for a Virtual Look Inside the Exhibition March 14  03.07.2024American Women's History MuseumExhibitions
Lois Mailou Jones in her classroom at Howard University, Credit: Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Anacostia Community Museum Presents Exhibition About Black Arts Education in Washington, D.C.“A Bold and Beautiful Vision” Opens March 23  03.07.2024Anacostia Community MuseumExhibitionsWilliam H. Johnson’s “Fighters for Freedom” Series Reunited for the First Time in More Than 75 Years at the Smithsonian American Art MuseumExhibition Is Drawn From the Museum’s Extensive Collection of Works by the Black Modernist Painter and Important Figure of the Harlem Renaissance  03.07.2024American Art MuseumExhibitionsExhibition at Cooper Hewitt to Celebrate Recent Acquisitions to the Collection"Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection" On View March 16 Through Sept. 2, 2024  02.27.2024Cooper HewittExhibitions
Embossed gold jar (detail), Ōnuma Chihiro (b. 1950), Japan, Shōwa era, 1988, hammered copper with amalgam gilding (kinkeshi), National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Bequest of Shirley Z. Johnson, S2022.8.37a–c Copyright Ōnuma Chihiro.
National Museum of Asian Art Announces Its Newly Acquired Shirley Z. Johnson Collection of Contemporary Japanese MetalworkObjects From This Unprecedented Gift Will Be on View in the Upcoming Exhibition “Striking Objects: Contemporary Japanese Metalwork”  02.26.2024ExhibitionsNew Acquisitions
Left: John Singer Sargent, “Mrs. Kate A. Moore,” 1884. Oil on canvas; 71 5/8 x 45 3/4 in. (181.9 x 116.2 cm). Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972 (72.257). Photo: Lee Stalsworth.

Right: Amoako Boafo, “Cobalt Blue Dress,” 2020. Oil on canvas; 78 3/8 x 60 1/2 in. (199.1 x 153.7 cm). Gift of Sandra and Howard Hoffen, 2022 (2022.016). Photo: Rob Blunt.
“Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960” Inaugurates the 50th Anniversary of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenExhibition of 270 Artworks Charts the Development of the National Collection  02.21.2024Hirshhorn MuseumExhibitions
Clark Gable and Joan Crawford by George Hurrell, gelatin silver print, 1936. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired in part through the generosity of an anonymous donor.
National Portrait Gallery Presents “Star Power: Photographs From Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell”On View March 1–Jan. 5, 2025  02.01.2024Portrait GalleryExhibitions
World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation Gallery Rendering. Smithsonian Institution.
National Air and Space Museum Provides Update on Renovation ProjectMuseum Shares Names and Renderings of Final 12 Galleries To Open  01.30.2024Air and Space MuseumExhibitions
"Sewing a fine seam—finishing touches are applied to one section of the new spacesuit for NASA's Apollo lunar missions on this long-arm sewing machine, built specially for manufacturing the spacesuits." Hazel Fellows, seated, machine-sewing pieces of an Apollo A7L spacesuit on the production line at International Latex Corporation (ILC), Federica (Dover), Delaware; released Aug. 9, 1968. Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Celebrates Women’s History Month 2024 With Inaugural Digital Exhibition and New Initiatives  01.30.2024American Women's History MuseumExhibitionsPublic Programs“From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson” Extended to Jan. 6, 2025, at National Museum of African Art  01.16.2024African Art MuseumExhibitionsSmithsonian Gardens To Present 28th Annual Orchid ExhibitionInstallation Includes Commissioned Works by Artist  Phaan Howng and Explores Conservation Efforts  01.10.2024Smithsonian GardensExhibitionsPublic Programs
*Portrait of OSGEMEOS by Filipe Berndt.*
Hirshhorn Presents First US Museum Survey of Brazilian Graffiti Artists OSGEMEOSLarge-Scale Exhibition of Nearly 1,000 Artworks, Objects and Archival Materials Traces OSGEMEOS’ Creative Evolution, On View May 18, 2024–July 6, 2025  12.06.2023Hirshhorn MuseumExhibitions
*Pinback button celebrating the seven principles of Kwanzaa.Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture*
Kwanzaa and Holiday Specials Highlight December Programming at the National Museum of African American History and Culture  11.27.2023African American MuseumExhibitionsPublic Programs
A plate of baleen (left) and a plastic shard (right) found in the gut of the first Rice’s whale to be scientifically described.

Credit: James D. Tiller and Fred Cochard, Smithsonian.
Smithsonian To Host Symposium Focused on Endangered Rice’s Whale in Partnership With NOAA, Marine Mammal CommissionMuseum Will Display Remains of the First Scientifically Described Rice’s Whale  11.09.2023Natural History MuseumResearch NewsExhibitionsGeorges Adéagbo’s “Create to Free Yourselves” Opens Nov. 18 at National Museum of African ArtMixed-media Installation Focuses on Relationship Between Life and Purpose  11.03.2023African Art MuseumExhibitions
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected Dec. 2, 2018, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles (24 kilometers). The image was obtained at a 50-degree phase angle between the spacecraft, asteroid and the sun, and in it, Bennu spans approximately 1,500 pixels in the camera’s field of view. Date taken: Dec. 2, 2018. Instrument used: OCAMS (PolyCam).

Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona.
Smithsonian To Open First Public Display of Asteroid Bennu Sample Collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx MissionArrival of Samples Is a Major Milestone in the  Museum’s ‘Our Unique Planet’ Initiative  10.26.2023Natural History MuseumExhibitions
The museum hosts Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. for a book talk about his latest publication, *The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice*, Nov. 11.
Military and Culture Programs Take the Spotlight in November at the National Museum of African American History and Culture  10.24.2023African American MuseumExhibitionsPublic ProgramsSmithsonian Adds Visionary Leaders Byron Lewis and Lillian Vernon to Landmark “American Enterprise” ExhibitionBusiness History Contributions To Be Highlighted in Exhibit’s Consumer Era Section  10.13.2023American History MuseumExhibitionsPages- 1
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