What's On

ZooLights

Join the thousands of visitors who make ZooLights a part of their annual holiday tradition. A free event, ZooLights includes live music performances, tasty winter treats and plenty of opportunities for holiday shopping. More than 500,000 environmentally-friendly LED lights transform the Zoo into a winter wonderland complete with a dazzling light show set to music!

Smithsonian Ingenuity Festival

The inaugural Smithsonian Ingenuity Festival is a month-long series of free events featuring American Ingenuity Awards honorees and other luminaries.

Smithsonian museums hosting events include the Arts and Industries Building; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York; National Museum of American History; National Air and Space Museum; National Museum of Natural History; and National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The Long Conversation

Leaders in the arts and the sciences talk about the ideas that make them optimistic about the future.

Sci-Fi Sundays

Join us select Sundays for sci-fi thrillers at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater.

World War I Centennial

April 2017–November 2018