Special materials await you there. The Court dining room and all other eating facilities in the National Museum of Natural History are now closed. Admission is free, but passes are required. The International Gallery, and the Freer, Sackler, Hirshhorn and African Art museums are open Thursday evenings until 8 P.M. , through August 28. The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra offers concerts in Washington, D.C., August 16-17.
Admission is free, but tickets are required.
American art assembled by the gallery's founder, Charles Lang Freer. Photographs from the Smithsonian's permanent collections reflect both the continuity and the change in American family life in the past 150 years. Highlights include a 1928 Gilkie tent trailer, a 1972 Volkswagen and a 1955 Ford station wagon. New permanent exhibition traces the competition in space between the United States and the former Soviet Union back to its origins in the 1950s. New permanent exhibition looks at the work of Smithsonian biologists worldwide.