What's on in Washington, DC
Frederic Edwin Church, Niagara, 1857, National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of ArtNational Mall

Niagara Falls: Mist and Majesty

Ended18 April 2026 – 20 September 2026Free

This exhibition has ended.

Some 20 works trace two centuries of Niagara's shifting meanings, anchored by Frederic Edwin Church's panoramic Niagara of 1857.

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Frederic Edwin Church's panoramic Niagara of 1857 anchors some 20 works on two centuries of the falls. Dear America, 115 works on paper for the 250th, closes the same day.

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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

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

National Archives Museum

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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

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