The museum's Renwick Gallery is home to the nation's premier collection of American studio craft and contemporary decorative arts. The permanent collection features works in all of the craft media -...
This exhibition explores how residents experience the city and how Washington itself expresses the tension between the demands of a working seat of government and the desire for a national symbol, and...
View more than 250 of the Folger's rich treasures pertaining to Shakespeare and his time, accompanied by Sir Derek Jacobi and other noted Shakespearean actors reciting the Bard's most loved verse, in...
This re-created indoor aeronautical exhibition (circa 1913) highlights the early history of the airplane from antiquity through the first decade of powered flight. Period furnishings, talking...
The Beffi Triptych once adorned the Church of Santa Maria del Ponte in the village of Beffi in Abruzzo. It was painted in the early 15th century, possibly by a follower of the Sienese artist Taddeo di...
Originally from Bombay, the works in this exhibit reflect the artist's Jewish upbringing in predominantly Hindu and Muslim India. On display are Indian miniature paintings as well as Jewish and...
This exhibition features a selection of 19 of the most artistically and culturally compelling objects The Textile Museum has acquired within the last five years. Exhibited pieces will include hats...
This installation features 70 paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection. On display will be landscapes, portraits, and allegorical works by 51 American artists from the 1840s to...
A team of assistants executed Sol LeWitt's 'Wall Drawing #65,' a gift from Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, on a wall in the Concourse galleries around the corner from the East Building, Small Auditorium...
Find out how residents of eight Native communities live and maintain their Native identity in the 21st century. Through their stories, visitors learn about the deliberate and often difficult choices...
At this special exhibit hall, visitors are invited to observe live insects. Volunteers will be on hand to conduct tarantula feeding demonstrations, answer questions about the creature that live in the...
This major survey of Brian Jungen transforms the familiar and banal into exquisite objects that reference themes of globalization, pop culture, museums, and the commodification of Indian imagery. On...
Three intimately scaled galleries present the types of works that were kept and enjoyed in the private chambers of Italian princes, humanists, and well-to-do merchants. In these rooms, known as...
This exhibit features engaging photographs of Bob Hope making the presidents laugh and scores of political jokes from his 89,000-plus-page personal Joke File. Also on display are items from the Bob...
The Library of Congress presents 'Maps in Our Lives,' an exhibition in recognition of a thirty-year partnership between the Library's Geography and Map Division and the American Congress on Surveying...
Visitors to the Library's historic Thomas Jefferson Building are invited to enter directly in the first floor Great Hall. From there, two orientation galleries flanking the Great Hall present...
Take a trip through a re-created version of Jefferson's library, which assembles 6,487 volumes that founded the Library of Congress, and learn how one of America's greatest thinkers was inspired...
'Exploring the Early Americas' features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress...
Gain insights into how the nation's founding documents were forged and the role that imagination and vision played in the unprecedented creative act of forming a self-governing country. Participate in...
On display in the Library's Great Hall are two of the institution's greatest treasures, the Giant Bible of Mainz and the Gutenberg Bible. Displayed in separate cases, both have an interactive station...
From over 17,000 entries submitted from the United States and around the world to the Smithsonian magazine for its 6th Annual Photo Contest, 50 finalists were selected. The images selected represent...
Journey into the skin of the earth and explore the amazing world of soils. Completely familiar yet largely unknown, soils help sustain virtually every form of life on Earth. The exhibit will transport...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, president during the Great Depression, used stamps to communicate with the American people. A stamp collector himself, he understood the power of visual imagery, and he changed...
Join others in celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his groundbreaking 'On the Origin of Species.' Specimens from the Museum's...
'Bilateral Engagement' is a collaborative sculpture exhibition between the Washington Sculptors Group and the Art Museum of the Americas at the Organization of American States.
Paul Nicklen's photography of icy landscapes, polar bears, walrus, leopard seals, penguins and more, illustrates both his passion for the environment and a deep commitment to conservation.
This exhibition demonstrates a convergence of two artists' aesthetics as a result of their time shared in a Dupont Circle studio space over the course of two years. On display will be several pairings...