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National Portrait Gallery · Penn Quarter / Chinatown

Photographic Memory: Fifty Years of Collecting

Upcoming14 November 2026 – 7 November 2027·Free

The photographs department turns fifty with more than one hundred works spanning the daguerreian era to the digital age.

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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

US Coast Guard photograph of a worker at Ground Zero following the September 11, 2001 attacks

Remembering 9/11

National Archives Museum

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

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National Museum of Women in the Arts

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