What's on in Washington, DC
Two books, Fired Up! Ready to Go and I Was Their American Dream, rest on a tabletop, along with a small vase of pink and lavender flowers.

National Museum of Women in the ArtsDowntown

Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center

Now showingPermanent collectionFree

Over 25,000 books plus 800 artists' books and zines, with archives holding the Judy Chicago Visual Archive, Frida Kahlo's personal papers and Eulabee Dix's palette and brush.

Exhibition website

More in Washington, DC

On nowAll of October 2026

Also at National Museum of Women in the Arts

On now nearby

Still from Shahzia Sikander's digital animation The Last Post (2010)

Shahzia Sikander: The Last Post

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Installation view of Nick Cave: Mammoth at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Nick Cave: Mammoth

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Ted Wathen, Former Company Houses, Jenkins, Letcher County, Kentucky, 1975, gelatin silver print

Much Here Is Beautiful: Photography Surveys of the U.S. Bicentennial

Smithsonian American Art Museum

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

Nearby

The Greek Revival portico and columned facade of the Old Patent Office Building, home of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC

Smithsonian American Art Museum

ArtFree7 min walk
The Greek Revival south (F Street) portico of the Old Patent Office Building, home of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC

National Portrait Gallery

ArtFree7 min walk
The red brick and sandstone Second Empire facade of the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC, with mansard roofs and "Dedicated to Art" carved above the entrance

Renwick Gallery

ArchitectureFree10 min walk
The neoclassical National Archives Building with its Corinthian colonnade, seen from Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC

National Archives Museum

ArchitectureFree12 min walk

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