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Complete List of New & Upcoming Smithsonian Exhibitions

AFRICAN ART MUSEUM »

Yinka Shonibare MBE
November 10, 2009 - March 7, 2010
Artful Animals
July 1, 2009 - July 25, 2010
Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Highlights
May 18, 2009 - Indefinitely
Ceramics at the National Museum of African Art
- Indefinitely
Pavilion Sculptures (rotating)
- Indefinitely

AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM »

Moving Beyond Earth
November 19, 2009 - Permanent
America by Air
- Permanent
Apollo to the Moon
- Permanent
Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age
- Permanent
Black Wings: The American Black in Aviation
- Permanent
Early Flight, The Samuel P. Langley Gallery of
- Permanent
Explore the Universe
- Permanent
Exploring the Planets
- Permanent
The Golden Age of Flight
- Permanent
How Things Fly
- Permanent
Jet Aviation
- Permanent
Legend, Memory, and the Great War in the Air (WWI Aviation)
- Permanent
Looking at Earth
- Permanent
Lunar Exploration Vehicles
- Permanent
Milestones of Flight
- Permanent
Outdoor Sculptures
- Permanent
Pioneers of Flight, Barron Hilton
- Permanent
Sea-Air Operations
- Permanent
Space Race
- Permanent
Voyager: Around the World without a Pit Stop
- Permanent
Welcome Center with Murals by Robert T. McCall and Eric Sloane
- Permanent
World War II Aviation
- Permanent
The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age
- Indefinitely
Flight and the Arts
Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
- Indefinitely

AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM UDVAR-HAZY CENTER »

Boeing Aviation Hangar
- Permanent
Case: Japanese American Pioneers of the Jet Age
- Indefinitely
Cases: Balloonamania
- Permanent
James S. McDonnell Space Hangar
- Permanent
World War II Prints by Robert Taylor
- Rotating Exhibition

AMERICAN ART MUSEUM »

Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan
February 12, 2010 - May 9, 2010
Graphic Masters III: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
January 15, 2010 - August 8, 2010
Thomas Moran Landscapes
May 8, 2009 - Permanent
American Art through 1940
- Permanent
American Experience
- Permanent
Art Since 1945
- Permanent
David Beck's MVSEVM
- Permanent
Luce Foundation Center for American Art
- Permanent
Lunder Conservation Center
- Permanent
Modern and Contemporary Art
- Permanent
Outdoor Sculpture: Modern Head by Roy Lichtenstein
- Indefinitely
Outdoor Sculpture: Vaquero by Luis Jimenez Jr.
- Permanent
With Liberty: Folk Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Permanent
Sculptures by Paul Manship
- Indefinitely
Renovating a Landmark: From Patent Office to Reynolds Center.
- Permanent

AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM »

The Modern Gown Gallery: A First Lady's Debut
March 10, 2010 - Permanent
A Letter from George Washington, November 30, 1785
February 25, 2010 - May 7, 2010 (new opening date)
Archives Center Cases: Selections from The Lockwood Greene Engineering Records, 1871-2004
January 19, 2010 - March 31, 2010
Holidays on Display
November 13, 2009 - Sept. 2010 (TBA)
Invention Case: Hot Spots of Invention
November 6, 2009 - Summer 2011 (TBA)
Stories on Money
June 11, 2009 - Indefinitely
On the Water: Stories from Maritime America
May 22, 2009 - Permanent
Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life
January 16, 2009 - Jan. 2011 (TBA)
Artifact Walls: Constitution Ave. Entrance Corridor
November 21, 2008 - Permanent
Artifact Walls: Mall Entrance Corridor
November 21, 2008 - Permanent
Invention at Play
November 21, 2008 - TBA
National Treasures of Popular Culture
November 21, 2008 - Permanent
Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration
November 21, 2008 - April 11, 2010
Lemelson Center Case: Jerome Lemelson: Toying with Invention
November 21, 2008 - TBA
America on the Move
- Permanent
American Presidency: A Glorious Burden, The
- Permanent
Bon Appetit! Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian
- Permanent
Bradford Dollhouse
- Permanent
Cases: Taking America to Lunch
- Permanent (Reopened July 15, 2009)
Communities in a Changing Nation: The Promise of 19th-Century America
- Permanent
Electricity: Lighting a Revolution
- Permanent
First Ladies at the Smithsonian
- Permanent
Gunboat Philadelphia
- Permanent
Landmark Object: Clara Barton's Red Cross Ambulance
- Permanent
Landmark Object: Disneyland's Dumbo the Flying Elephant
- Permanent
Landmark Object: George Washington Sculpture
- Permanent
Landmark Object: Greensboro Lunch Counter
- Permanent
Landmark Object: John Bull Locomotive
- Permanent
Landmark Object: Vassar Telescope
- Permanent
Musical Instruments Hall
- Permanent
Outdoor Sculptures
- Permanent
Power Machinery
- Permanent
Price of Freedom: Americans at War, The
- Permanent
Science in American Life
- Permanent
The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem
- Permanent
Within These Walls...
- Permanent

AMERICAN INDIAN MUSEUM »

IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas
November 10, 2009 - May 31, 2010
Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort
October 16, 2009 - August 8, 2010
Our Lives: Contemporary Life and Identities
- Permanent
Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories
- Permanent
Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World
- Permanent
Return to a Native Place: Algonquian Peoples of Chesapeake
- Permanent
Sculptures and Individual Art Installations
- Indefinitely
Window on Collections: Many Hands, Many Voices
- Permanent Displays
Outdoor Sculptures: Buffalo Dancer II and Always Becoming
Cases: Orientation Exhibition
- TBA

AMERICAN INDIAN MUSEUM HEYE CENTER »

Hide: Skin as Material and Metaphor: Part I
March 6, 2010 - August 1, 2010
Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America
December 11, 2009 - June 27, 2010 (new closing date)
A Song for the Horse Nation
November 14, 2009 - July 7, 2011
Beauty Surrounds Us
September 23, 2006 - Indefinitely (new closing date)
Orientation Exhibition
- Indefinitely

ANACOSTIA COMMUNITY MUSEUM »

The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present
November 8, 2009 - July 4, 2010
Separate and Unequaled: Black Baseball in the District of Columbia
November 10, 2008 - Indefinitely
Outdoor Sculpture: Real Justice by Allen Uzikee Nelson
- Permanent

ARTS & INDUSTRIES BUILDING »

Garden: Mary Livingston Ripley Garden
- Permanent

COOPER-HEWITT, NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM »

Quicktake: Tato Nano
February 18, 2010 - April 25, 2010
Quicktake: Rodarte
February 11, 2010 - March 14, 2010
Design USA: Contemporary Innovation
October 16, 2009 - April 4, 2010

FREER GALLERY OF ART »

Cornucopia: Ceramics from Southern Japan
December 19, 2009 - January 9, 2011
Children at Play in Chinese Painting
November 18, 2009 - May 23, 2010
The Texture of Night: James McNeill Whistler
June 6, 2009 - June 6, 2010
Freer & Whistler: Points of Contact
February 23, 2008 - Indefinitely
Surface Beauty: American Art and Freer's Aesthetic Vision
February 23, 2008 - Indefinitely
Ancient Chinese Pottery and Bronze
- Indefinitely
Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas
- Indefinitely
Arts of the Islamic World
- Indefinitely
Black & White: Chinese Ceramics from the 10th-14th Centuries
- Indefinitely
Buddhist Art
- Indefinitely
Charles Lang Freer and Egypt
- Indefinitely
Japanese Screens (rotating)
- Indefinitely
Korean Ceramics
- Indefinitely
Outdoor Sculpture: Twisted Form by Shiro Hayami
- Permanent
The Peacock Room
- Permanent
The Religious Art of Japan (rotating)
- Indefinitely
Sculptures
- Permanent
Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Indefinitely

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM & SCULPTURE GARDEN »

ColorForms
March 11, 2010 - January 2011 (TBD) (new opening & closing dates)
Josef Albers: Innovation and Inspiration
February 13, 2010 - April 11, 2010 (new opening date)
Black Box: Phoebe Greenberg
November 30, 2009 - April 11, 2010 Rotating Exhibiti
Directions -- John Gerrard
November 5, 2009 - May 31, 2010
Outdoor Installation: UP7TH
October 2, 2009 - Indefinitely (TBA) (new closing date)
Permanent/Indefinite: Collection Highlights
- Indefinitely
Outdoor Sculptures
- Indefinitely

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM »

The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
Upcoming: March 17, 2010 - Permanent
The Sant Ocean Hall Focus Gallery: Deeper Than Light
February 20, 2010 - May 23, 2010
A Rare Encounter: The Hope and Wittelsbach-Graff Diamonds
January 29, 2010 - August 1, 2010
Nature's Best 2009 Photography Awards: Windland Smith Rice International Awards
November 12, 2009 - May 2, 2010
Since Darwin: The Evolution of Evolution
September 12, 2009 - July 18, 2010
Cases: Darwin's Legacy
September 10, 2009 - September 12, 2010
Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake
February 7, 2009 - January 6, 2013
African Elephant
- Permanent
African Voices
- Permanent
Birds of the District of Columbia
- Indefinitely
Blast from the Past (case)
- Indefinitely
Burgess Shale Diorama
- Indefinitely
Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution
- Permanent
Dinosaurs: Reptiles: Masters of Land
- Permanent
Discovering Rastafari!
- Indefinitely
Early Life: Earliest Traces of Life
- Indefinitely
Fossil Mammals: Mammals in the Limelight
- Permanent
Fossil Plants and Animals: The Conquest of Land
- Permanent
Fossils Galore: A Grand Opening
- Permanent
Garden: Butterfly Habitat Garden (outside, seasonal)
- Permanent
Geology, Gems, and Minerals, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of
- Permanent
Ice Age: Ice Age Mammals and the Emergence of Man
- Permanent
Insect Zoo, O. Orkin
- Permanent
Korea Gallery
- Indefinitely
Life in the Ancient Seas
- Permanent
Mammals, Kenneth E. Behring Family Hall of
- Permanent
Osteology: Hall of Bones
- Permanent
Outdoor Sculptures, including Sculptures from Nature
- Permanent
Reptiles
- Permanent
The Sant Ocean Hall
- Permanent
Welcome to the National Museum of Natural History
- Permanent
Western Cultures Hall: Origins of Western Culture
- Permanent

PORTRAIT GALLERY »

Glimpse of the Past: A Neighborhood Evolves
March 5, 2010 - January 8, 2012
From FDR to Obama: Presidents on Time
February 12, 2010 - September 26, 2010 (new closing date)
The Struggle for Justice
February 12, 2010 - Permanent
One Life: Echoes of Elvis
January 8, 2010 - August 29, 2010
Portraiture Now: Communities
November 6, 2009 - July 5, 2010
Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009
October 23, 2009 - August 22, 2010
America's Presidents
- Permanent
American Origins, 1600-1900
- Permanent
Jo Davidson: Biographer in Bronze
- Permanent
Lunder Conservation Center
- Permanent
Twentieth-Century Americans
- Permanent
Renovating a Landmark: From Patent Office to Reynolds Center
- Permanent
New Arrivals (rotating)
- Indefinitely

POSTAL MUSEUM »

Delivering Hope: FDR & Stamps of the Great Depression
June 9, 2009 - June 6, 2010
Abraham Lincoln Certified Plate Proofs
November 15, 2008 - October 2010
Alphabetilately: An Alphabet of Philately
September 26, 2008 - October 29, 2010
Victory Mail
March 6, 2008 - May 31, 2011 (new closing date)
Amelia Earhart's Personal Collection
November 12, 2007 - Indefinitely
The Art of Cards and Letters
- Permanent
Binding the Nation
- Permanent
Customers and Communities
- Permanent
Moving the Mail
- Permanent
Philatelic Gallery
- Permanent

RENWICK GALLERY »

The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946
March 5, 2010 - January 30, 2011
Grand Salon Installation: Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
June 6, 2009 - Permanent
Octagon Room
- Permanent
Permanent Collection
- Permanent
Sales Exhibitions
- Indefinitely

RIPLEY CENTER (INTERNATIONAL GALLERY) »

Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America
January 15, 2010 - April 25, 2010 (new closing date)
Panamanian Passages
October 14, 2009 - May 31, 2010
Graphic Eloquence: Limited-Edition Prints from The Smithsonian Associates Art Collectors Program
- Permanent
Posy Holders
- Indefinitely

SACKLER GALLERY »

Perspectives: Hai Bo
Upcoming: March 27, 2010 - February 27, 2011 (new closing date)
In the Realm of the Buddha
March 13, 2010 - July 18, 2010
Moving Perspectives: Yeondoo Jung
November 21, 2009 - March 14, 2010
Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia
April 1, 2007 - through 2010
The Arts of China
- Indefinitely
Contemporary Japanese Porcelain
- Permanent
Sculpture of South and Southeast Asia
- Indefinitely
Sculpture: Monkeys Grasping for the Moon
- Indefinitely

SMITHSONIAN CASTLE »

World View: Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest
July 1, 2009 - April 11, 2010
Smithsonian Information Center
- Permanent
Smithson's Crypt
- Permanent
The Smithsonian Institution: America's Treasure Chest
- Permanent
Exhibit Panels: The West Wing: A Chronology
- Permanent
Featured Areas: Children's Room, The Commons, Schermer Hall
- Permanent
Garden: Enid A. Haupt Garden
- Permanent
Garden: Folger Rose Garden, including the Keith Fountain (seasonal)
- Permanent
Cases: Scientific Illustrators: Artists in Residence in the Castle
- May 30, 2010 (new closing date)

ZOO »

Animals on View
- Permanent
Amazonia
- Permanent
Asia Trail
- Permanent
Bald Eagle Refuge
- Closed; reopens 2012 (TBA)
Beaver Valley
- Closed; reopens 2012 (TBA)
Bird House and the Outdoor Flight Exhibit
- Permanent
Cheetah Conservation Station
- Permanent
Elephant House
- Permanent
Giant Panda Habitat, Fujifilm
- Permanent
Gibbon Ridge
- Permanent
Great Ape House
- Permanent
Great Cats (tigers)
- Permanent
Heritage Gardens: African American and Native American
- Permanent
How Do You Zoo?
- Permanent
Invertebrates
- Permanent
Kids' Farm
- Permanent
Lemur Island
- Permanent
Outdoor Sculptures: The Gathering, Lions, and Uncle Beazley
- Permanent
Pollinarium
- Permanent
Prairie Dog Playland
- Permanent
Reptile Discovery Center
- Permanent
Seals
- Closed; reopens 2012 (TBA)
Small Mammal House
- Permanent Renovated 1983
Think Tank
- Permanent
Wetlands Exhibition
- Permanent

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