What's on in Washington, DC

National Museum of Asian ArtNational Mall

Beyond Rumi: Sufi Art and Practice

Now showingPermanent collectionFree

An ongoing display looking past the popular image of Rumi to the wider visual and devotional culture of Sufism across the Islamic world.

Exhibition website

More in Washington, DC

On now All of October 2026

Also at National Museum of Asian Art

On now nearby

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

Entrance to Light Is a Plastic Medium at the Hirshhorn: a wall-size photograph of Carlotta Corpron at work beside green title walls

Light Is a Plastic Medium: The Photography of Carlotta Corpron

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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

Nearby

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

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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

Aerial view of the National Museum of American History on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

National Museum of American History

HistoryFree5 min walk

Exterior of the International Spy Museum's black-and-red glass building at L'Enfant Plaza, Washington, DC

International Spy Museum

Military5 min walk

Image credits

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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
Light Is a Plastic Medium: The Photography of Carlotta CorpronCourtesy of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
National Museum of Asian ArtDifference engine, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenGryffindor, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
National Museum of Natural Historyajay_suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
National Museum of American HistoryCarol M. Highsmith / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
International Spy MuseumFarragutful, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

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