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# What’s On

*Featured events and exhibitions*

## Featured Events

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## Featured Exhibitions

With over two hundred exhibitions to choose from, we've highlighted select exhibitions from around the Smithsonian—or check out all of our exhibitions.

## What's New

                    -    **  Reckoning with Remembrance: History, Injustice, and the Murder of Emmett Till
			              April  6, 2024 – September  15, 2024												              American History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women
			              March  28, 2024 – August  26, 2024												              American Art Museum									
 
                    -    **  Bold and Beautiful Vision: A Century of Black Arts Education in Washington, DC, 1900–2000
			              March  23, 2024 – March  2, 2025												              Anacostia Community Museum									
 
                    -    **  Staging the Supernatural: Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints
			              March  23, 2024 – October  6, 2024												              Sackler Gallery									
 
                    -    **  Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960
			              March  22, 2024 – April  20, 2025												              Hirshhorn									
 
                    -    **  Artists at Work
			              March  20, 2024 – March  21, 2025												              S. Dillon Ripley Center									
 
                    -    **  Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection
			              March  16, 2024 – September  2, 2024												              Cooper Hewitt									
 
                    -    **  Imagined Neighbors: Japanese Visions of China, 1680–1980
			              March  16, 2024 – September  15, 2024												              Freer Gallery of Art									
 
                    -    **  Change YOUR Game
			              March  15, 2024 – Ongoing												              American History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice
			              March  8, 2024 – September  8, 2024												              American Art Museum									
 
                    -    **  Striking Objects: Contemporary Japanese Metalwork
			              March  2, 2024 – early 2026												              Sackler Gallery									
 
                    -    **  Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell
			              March  1, 2024 – January  5, 2025												              Portrait Gallery									
 
                    -    **  The Future of Orchids: Conservation and Collaboration
			              January  27, 2024 – April  28, 2024												              Smithsonian Gardens									
 
                    -    **  Commissioned Portrait of Oprah Winfrey
			              December  13, 2023 – October  20, 2024												              Portrait Gallery									
 

## Opening Soon

                    -    **  Zen And the Open Road
			              April  15, 2024 – Ongoing												              American History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939
			              April  26, 2024 – February  23, 2025												              Portrait Gallery									
 
                    -    **  Do Ho Suh: Public Figures
			              April  27, 2024 – April  29, 2029												              Freer Gallery of Art									
 
                    -    **  OSGEMEOS: Endless Story
			              May  18, 2024 – July  6, 2025												              Hirshhorn									
 
                    -    **  Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women
			              May  31, 2024 – January  5, 2025												              Renwick Gallery									
 
                    -    **  Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains
			              Spring 2024 – TBA												              American Indian Museum									
 
                    -    **  This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
			              June  7, 2024 – April  27, 2025												              Portrait Gallery									
 
                    -    **  Forensic Science on Trial
			              June 2024 – June 2025												              American History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Picturing the Presidents: Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes from the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection
			              June  21, 2024 – June  8, 2025												              Portrait Gallery									
 
                    -    **  Shifting Boundaries: Perspectives on American Landscapes
			              July  13, 2024 – July  26, 2026												              Freer Gallery of Art									
 

## Closing Soon

                    -    **  Mirror, Mirror for Us All: Disney Parks and the American Narrative / Experience
			              April  28, 2023 – April  14, 2024												              American History Museum									
 
                    -    **  One Life: Frederick Douglass
			              June  16, 2023 – April  21, 2024												              Portrait Gallery									
 
                    -    **  Anyang: China's Ancient City of Kings
			              February  25, 2023 – April  28, 2024												              Sackler Gallery									
 
                    -    **  The Future of Orchids: Conservation and Collaboration
			              January  27, 2024 – April  28, 2024												              Smithsonian Gardens									
 
                    -    **  Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change
			              November  18, 2023 – May  4, 2024												              Freer Gallery of Art									
 
                    -    **  Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of Life
			              July  14, 2023 – June  2, 2024												              Hirshhorn									
 
                    -    **  Robert Houle: Red Is Beautiful
			              May  25, 2023 – June  2, 2024												              American Indian Museum									
 
                    -    **  Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas
			              September  15, 2023 – June  2, 2024												              American Art Museum									
 
                    -    **  Duty, Honor, Country: Antebellum Portraits of West Pointers
			              June  23, 2023 – June  9, 2024												              Portrait Gallery									
 
                    -    **  Carrie Mae Weems: Looking Forward, Looking Back
			              September  22, 2023 – July  7, 2024												              American Art Museum									
 
                    -    **  Music HerStory: Women and Music of Social Change
			              June  22, 2022 – July  21, 2024												              American History Museum									
 
                    -    **  An Atlas of Es Devlin
			              November  18, 2023 – August  11, 2024												              Cooper Hewitt									
 

## Don't Miss

                    -    **  Cellphone: Unseen Connections
			              June  23, 2023 Through 2026												              Natural History Museum									
 
                    -    **  From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson
			              April  29, 2023 – January  6, 2025												              African Art Museum									
 
                    -    **  Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery
			              April  19, 2023 – Ongoing												              Renwick Gallery									
 
                    -    **  One World Connected
			              October  14, 2022 – Permanent												              Air and Space Museum									
 
                    -    **  The Peacock Room Comes to America
			              September  3, 2022 – Indefinitely												              Freer Gallery of Art									
 
                    -    **  Baseball: America's Homerun
			              April  9, 2022 – January  5, 2025												              Postal Museum									
 
                    -    **  The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room
			              March  5, 2022 – Indefinitely												              Sackler Gallery									
 
                    -    **  Laurie Anderson: Four Talks
			              September  24, 2021 – Ongoing												              Hirshhorn									
 
                    -    **  Americans
			              January  18, 2018 – Indefinitely												              American Indian Museum									
 
                    -    **  Mark Bradford: Pickett's Charge
			              November  8, 2017 – Ongoing												              Hirshhorn									
 
                    -    **  America's Presidents
			              September  22, 2017 – Permanent												              Portrait Gallery									
 
                    -    **  American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
			              June  28, 2017 – Permanent												              American History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Slavery and Freedom
			              September  24, 2016 – Permanent												              African American History and Culture Museum									
 
                    -    **  Musical Crossroads
			              September  24, 2016 – Permanent												              African American History and Culture Museum									
 
                    -    **  Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations
			              September  21, 2014 – January  25, 2025												              American Indian Museum									
 
                    -    **  The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem
			              November  21, 2008 – Permanent												              American History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Sant Ocean Hall
			              September  27, 2008 – Permanent												              Natural History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Luce Foundation Center for American Art
			              July  1, 2006 – Permanent												              American Art Museum									
 
                    -    **  Cold War Aviation
			              December  15, 2003 – Permanent												              Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center									
 

## Kids' Favorites

                    -    **  Really BIG Money
			              April  8, 2022 – Indefinitely												              American History Museum									
 
                    -    **  The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time
			              June  8, 2019 – Permanent												              Natural History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Mega-toothed Shark
			              May  24, 2019 – Permanent												              Natural History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Explore! with the National Portrait Gallery
			              January  28, 2017 – Indefinitely												              Portrait Gallery									
 
                    -    **  Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
			              September  24, 2016 – Indefinitely												              African American History and Culture Museum									
 
                    -    **  Wegmans Wonderplace
			              December  9, 2015 – Indefinitely												              American History Museum									
 
                    -    **  African Elephant
			              September  4, 2015 – Permanent												              Natural History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Patrick F. Taylor Foundation Object Project
			              July  1, 2015 – Permanent												              American History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Spark!Lab
			              July  1, 2015 – Indefinitely												              American History Museum									
 
                    -    **  American Trail
			              September  1, 2012 – Permanent												              National Zoo									
 
                    -    **  As We Grow: Traditions, Toys, Games
			              August  22, 2012 – Permanent												              American Indian Museum									
 
                    -    **  Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt
			              November  17, 2011 – Permanent												              Natural History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Sant Ocean Hall
			              September  27, 2008 – Permanent												              Natural History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution
			              Natural History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Airmail in America
			              February  22, 2006 – Permanent												              Postal Museum									
 
                    -    **  Human Spaceflight
			              November  1, 2004 – Permanent												              Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center									
 
                    -    **  Kids' Farm
			              June  12, 2004 – Permanent												              National Zoo									
 
                    -    **  America on the Move
			              November  22, 2003 – Permanent												              American History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Kenneth E. Behring Family Hall of Mammals
			              November  15, 2003 – Permanent												              Natural History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
			              September  20, 1997 – Permanent												              Natural History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Insect Zoo, O. Orkin
			              September  10, 1993 – Permanent												              Natural History Museum									
 
                    -    **  Moving the Mail
			              July  30, 1993 – Permanent												              Postal Museum									
 
                    -    **  The Dolls' House
			              Opened 1951 – Indefinitely												              American History Museum									
 

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