What's on in Washington, DC

National Gallery of Art · National Mall

Dear America: Artists Explore the American Experience

Now showing11 April 2026 – 20 September 2026·Free

115 works on paper by 95 artists — Dorothea Lange, Carrie Mae Weems, Thomas Hart Benton, Roy Lichtenstein and more — grouped as Land, Community and Freedom for America's 250th.

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Also at National Gallery of Art

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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

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National Air and Space Museum

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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National Museum of the American Indian

ArtFree5 min walk