What's on in Washington, DC
Childe Hassam, Allies Day, May 1917, 1917, National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art · National Mall

American Icon: The US Flag in Art

Now showing6 June 2026 – 6 December 2026·Free

Over 30 works — Jasper Johns, Faith Ringgold, Gordon Parks, Childe Hassam, Dorothea Lange — on how the Stars and Stripes has served as pride, protest and raw material since the late 1800s.

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Also at National Gallery of Art

On now nearby

US Coast Guard photograph of a worker at Ground Zero following the September 11, 2001 attacks

Remembering 9/11

National Archives Museum

The engrossed original Declaration of Independence parchment

Free and Independent: A Celebration of the Declaration

National Archives Museum

Installation view of Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960

Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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

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National Archives Museum

ArchitectureFree4 min walk

National Air and Space Museum

HistoryFree4 min walk

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

DesignFree5 min walk

National Museum of the American Indian

ArtFree5 min walk

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