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National Portrait Gallery Announces Teen Portrait Competition Timed With Museum’s “The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today” Exhibition

Portrait Gallery

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National Portrait Gallery Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month and Día de Los Muertos

Portrait Gallery

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Smithsonian Craft2Wear Show Opens Sept. 27

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D.C. Community Clinic Objects Highlight Philanthropy in Smithsonian Exhibition

American History Museum

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National Museum of African American History and Culture To Release Its First Book of Sports Photography

African American Museum

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“Sublime Light: The Tapestry Art of DY Begay” Celebrates Three Decades of Groundbreaking Work by Innovative Diné Artist

American Indian Museum

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Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center Presents “Sightlines: Chinatown and Beyond” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Opening Sept. 7

Asian Pacific American Center

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National Museum of African American History and Culture To Offer Community Curation Programs in St. Louis and East St. Louis

African American Museum

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Cooper Hewitt Announces “Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial”

Smithsonian-Gallup Study Uncovers Gaps in How US Science Standards Are Preparing Students To Meet Sustainability Challenges of the Future

Smithsonian Science Education Center

Smithsonian Associates Honors Henry Winkler With John P. McGovern Award

Smithsonian Associates

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Smithsonian Scientists Devise Method To Secure Earth’s Biodiversity on the Moon

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Spotsylvania Oak Tree Severed by Bullets Civil War 1864

Smithsonian Snapshot

A Witness to War

In a Civil War battle, bullets cut down an oak tree.

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