Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Smithsonian Folklife Festival
June 29-July 4 and July 6-9, 2017
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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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Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings
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JFK Centennial Celebration
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Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History
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Trolley Car Mail
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Celebrate: John F. Kennedy
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Making | Breaking: New Arrivals
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Down These Mean Streets
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Tracing American Journeys
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More Than a Picture: Selections from the Photography Collection
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Cultivating America's Gardens
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American Visionary: John F. Kennedy's Life and Times
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Before Internet Cats: Feline Finds from the Archives of American Art
Closing Soon
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American Ballet
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Korea Gallery
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Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers' Greek Slave
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Body of Devotion: The Cosmic Buddha in 3D
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Perspectives: Michael Joo
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From the Regenia Perry Collection: The Backyard of Derek Webster's Imagination
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Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered
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The Glazed Elephant: Ceramic Traditions in Cambodia
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Celebrate: John F. Kennedy
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Sculpture of South Asia and the Himalayas
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Down These Mean Streets
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Linn Meyers: Our View from Here
Kids' Favorites
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Explore! With the National Portrait Gallery
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Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
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Still Life with Spirit and Xitle
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Wegmans Wonderplace
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African Elephant
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Spark!Lab
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Object Project
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Immersion Room
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The Last American Dinosaurs: Discovering a Lost World
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Connect with U.S. Stamps
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Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There
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American Trail
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As We Grow: Traditions, Toys, Games
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American Stories
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The First Ladies
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Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt
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Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye!
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The Sant Ocean Hall
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Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution
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Asia Trail
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Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World
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Kids' Farm
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America on the Move
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Kenneth E. Behring Family Hall of Mammals
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The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
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Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals
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How Things Fly
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Pollinator Garden
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Insect Zoo, O. Orkin
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Moving the Mail
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Apollo to the Moon
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Gunboat Philadelphia
World War I Commemoration
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Legend, Memory, and the Great War in the Air
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The Price of Freedom: Americans at War
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Double Victory: The African American Military Experience
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Patriot Nations: Native Americans in our Nation's Armed Forces
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Modern Medicine and the Great War
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Artist Soldiers: Artistic Expression in the First World War
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My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
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Advertising War
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Gen. John J. Pershing and World War I, 1917-1918
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Uniformed Women and the Great War
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Cultivating America's Gardens
Don't Miss
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June Schwarcz: Invention and Variation
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Gateways/Portales
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21st Annual Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards
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Slavery and Freedom
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Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall
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Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan
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Body of Devotion: The Cosmic Buddha in 3D
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American Enterprise
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Object Project
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The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire
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Experience America
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Gems of American Philately
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The Sant Ocean Hall
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Twentieth-Century Americans
