What's on in Washington, DC
Portrait of a woman reclining among stringed instruments, from the 20th Century Americans galleries

National Portrait GalleryPenn Quarter / Chinatown

20th Century Americans

Now showingPermanent collectionFree

Four galleries off the third-floor Great Hall tracking the cultural and political hallmarks of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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On nowAll of October 2026

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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

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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

ArtFree1 min walk
Exterior of the National Building Museum, the 1887 Pension Building, in Washington, DC

National Building Museum

Architecture5 min walk
The neoclassical National Archives Building with its Corinthian colonnade, seen from Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC

National Archives Museum

ArchitectureFree7 min walk
Exterior of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a Renaissance Revival former Masonic Temple on the corner of New York Avenue and 13th Street NW in Washington, DC

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Design7 min walk

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