The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery are closed for the next three years. The Anacostia Museum Gallery is scheduled to open next summer. Smithsonian treasures to go During the renovation of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's gallery space, some 500 artworks will tour throughout the country. A series of panels depicting current and historical images of political figures, divas, domestic animals and everyday objects by this preeminent artist. Two different Nigerian societies are examined through these tutelary deities.
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Studies the variety of piano designs and the designers dating to the time the piano first appeared, around 1700. Organized by the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education to explain the science of museum conservation. Discovery Theater Performances for youngsters, sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates. This exhibition explores early developments in documenting time through the photographic analysis of movement. It also features human and animal locomotion studies that Eadweard Muybridge performed between 1884 and 1887 at the University of Pennsylvania.