What's on in Washington, DC

National Gallery of ArtNational Mall

Dear America: Artists Explore the American Experience

Ended11 April 2026 – 20 September 2026Free

This exhibition has ended.

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.

More in Washington, DC

On now All of October 2026

Also at National Gallery of Art

On now nearby

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

Installation view of Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen at the Hirshhorn Museum

Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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

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The neoclassical National Archives Building with its Corinthian colonnade, seen from Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC

National Archives Museum

ArchitectureFree4 min walk

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

HistoryFree4 min walk

The cylindrical concrete exterior of the Hirshhorn Museum, raised on four piers, on the National Mall in Washington, DC

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

DesignFree5 min walk

The curved Kasota limestone exterior of the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, DC

National Museum of the American Indian

ArtFree5 min walk

Image credits

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Free and Independent: A Celebration of the DeclarationCourtesy of National Archives Museum
Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Adam Pendleton: Love, QueenPeio Erroteta / Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
National Gallery of Artajay_suresh / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
National Archives MuseumDavid Samuel (Hellodavey1902) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
National Air and Space Museumajay_suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenGryffindor, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
National Museum of the American IndianCarol M. Highsmith / Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

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