What's on in Washington, DC
The Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden in spring, photographed before the revitalization works began

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenNational Mall

Sculpture Garden and Plaza

Now showingFrom 31 October 2026Free

Closed since 2023 for a Hiroshi Sugimoto-designed revitalization; the museum announces reopening on 31 October 2026 with around 60 works, up from roughly 40. The Plaza stays open daily.

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Saodat Ismailova: Melted into the Sun

National Museum of Asian Art

A gold basin inlaid with delicate and detailed silver designs of humans and animals surrounded by vines.

From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art

National Museum of Asian Art

The Charles Lang Freer House in Detroit, the collector's home where he first displayed the Asian and American art that became the Freer Gallery

A Museum in the Making

National Museum of Asian Art

All exhibitions in Washington, DC this month Coming up in November

Nearby

The newly refaced National Mall building of the National Air and Space Museum, showing the glass portico entrance on Jefferson Drive and the Ad Astra sculpture

National Air and Space Museum

HistoryFree3 min walk
The granite south entrance of the Freer Gallery of Art, the Italian Renaissance-style west building of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC

National Museum of Asian Art

DesignFree4 min walk
Exterior of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History on the National Mall, its domed Beaux-Arts rotunda above a columned portico

National Museum of Natural History

HistoryFree5 min walk
The neoclassical West Building of the National Gallery of Art on the National Mall, Washington, DC

National Gallery of Art

ArtFree5 min walk

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