What's On
Featured events and exhibitions
With over two hundred exhibitions to choose from, we've highlighted select exhibitions—or see them all. Looking for tours, lectures, films, performances? See our Event Calendar.
Just Opened
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The Glazed Elephant: Ceramic Traditions in Cambodia
Opened April 15, 2017
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Celebrate: Ella Fitzgerald
Opened April 13, 2017
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Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered
Opened April 8, 2017
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The Face of Battle, Americans at War, 9/11 to Now
Opened April 7, 2017
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Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years
Opened April 7, 2017
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The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s
Opened April 7, 2017
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Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection
Opened April 7, 2017
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Modern Medicine and the Great War
Opened April 6, 2017
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Opened April 6, 2017
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Opened April 6, 2017
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Advertising War
Opened April 6, 2017
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Gen. John J. Pershing and World War I, 1917-1918
Opened April 6, 2017
Closing Soon
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American Ballet
Closes April 30, 2017
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Kung Fu Wildstyle
Closes April 30, 2017
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Bill Viola: The Moving Portrait
Closes May 7, 2017
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Linn Meyers: Our View from Here
Closes May 14, 2017
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New York City: A Portrait Through Stamp Art
Closes May 14, 2017
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Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors
Closes May 14, 2017
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Bettina Pousttchi: World Time Clock
Closes May 14, 2017
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orchids: A MOMENT
Closes May 14, 2017
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Celebrate: Ella Fitzgerald
Closes May 14, 2017
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Color in a New Light
Closes May 15, 2017
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One Life: Babe Ruth
Closes May 21, 2017
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Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre
Closes June 4, 2017
Kids' Favorites
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Explore! With the National Portrait Gallery
Indefinitely
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Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
Indefinitely
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Still Life with Spirit and Xitle
Summer 2017
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Wegmans Wonderplace
Ongoing
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African Elephant
Permanent
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Spark!Lab
Ongoing
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Object Project
Ongoing
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Immersion Room
Ongoing
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The Last American Dinosaurs: Discovering a Lost World
Summer 2019
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Connect with U.S. Stamps
Permanent
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Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There
Permanent
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American Trail
Permanent
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As We Grow: Traditions, Toys, Games
Permanent
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American Stories
Indefinitely
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The First Ladies
Indefinitely
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Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt
Indefinitely
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Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye!
Indefinitely
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The Sant Ocean Hall
Permanent
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Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution
Permanent
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Asia Trail
Permanent
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Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World
Through September 2020 (TBD)
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Kids' Farm
Permanent
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America on the Move
Permanent
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Kenneth E. Behring Family Hall of Mammals
Permanent
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The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
Permanent
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Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
Permanent
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How Things Fly
Permanent
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Pollinator Garden
Permanent
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Insect Zoo, O. Orkin
Permanent
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Moving the Mail
Permanent
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Apollo to the Moon
Permanent
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Gunboat Philadelphia
Permanent
World War I Commemoration
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Legend, Memory, and the Great War in the Air
Permanent
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The Price of Freedom: Americans at War
Permanent
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Double Victory: The African American Military Experience
Permanent
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Patriot Nations: Native Americans in our Nation's Armed Forces
Through January 2018 (TBD)
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Modern Medicine and the Great War
Through January 2019
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
Through November 11, 2018
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
Through November 29, 2018
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Advertising War
Through TBD January 2019
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Gen. John J. Pershing and World War I, 1917-1918
Indefinitely
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Uniformed Women and the Great War
Indefinitely
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Cultivating America's Gardens
May 4, 2017 – August 2018
Don't Miss
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Gateways/Portales
Through January 7, 2018
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21st Annual Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards
Through September 2017 (TBD)
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Slavery and Freedom
Permanent
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Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall
Permanent
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Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan
Through October 29, 2017
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Body of Devotion: The Cosmic Buddha in 3D
Through July 9, 2017
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American Enterprise
Permanent
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Object Project
Ongoing
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The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire
Through June 1, 2020
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Experience America
Permanent
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Gems of American Philately
Permanent
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The Sant Ocean Hall
Permanent
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Twentieth-Century Americans
Permanent