Music HerStory explores women's contributions to music through unique media collections from the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, the Center for Folklife and Culture Heritage, and around the Smithsonian.
My Computing Device showcases the complex story of how Americans came to use and own computers and challenges them to examine their own personal relationships with devices.
This new learning space featuring “everyday things that changed everything,” explores how people, innovative things, and social change shaped life as we know it.
From 18th-century sailing ships, 19th-century steamboats and fishing craft, to today's mega containerships, the exhibition reveals America’s maritime connections through objects, documents, audiovisual programs, and interactives.
Picturing Women Inventors highlights the distinctive motivations, challenges, and accomplishments of exceptional 20th- and 21st-century inventive women who are diverse both personally and professionally.
With models and machines—pumps, boilers, turbines, waterwheels, and engines—the hall follows the development of increasingly efficient power machinery.
¡Presente! A Latino History of the United States tells U.S. history from the perspectives of the diverse Latinas and Latinos who lived it and live it today.
On February 29, 2020—ten days before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic—1,000 members of San Francisco’s Chinatown community marched in solidarity.
The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation invites children between the ages of 6 and 12 to create, collaborate, explore, test, experiment, and invent.
More than 900 objects, including national treasures from the Smithsonian’s vast presidential collections, bring to life the role of the presidency in American culture.
This showcase explores the founding father's pioneering contributions to electrical science and features objects connecting his experiments to the technology of today.
The First Ladies explores the unofficial but important position of first lady and the ways that different women have shaped the role to make their own contributions to the presidential administrations and the nation.
The Price of Freedom: Americans at War surveys the history of America’s military from the French and Indian Wars to the present day, exploring ways in which wars have been defining episodes in American history.
Upon entering this exhibition, visitors are immersed in the Battle of Baltimore, which inspired Francis Scott Key to write his famous lyrics. The almost 200-year old, 30-by 34-foot flag is displayed in a special environmentally-controlled chamber.
This exhibition delves into the National Numismatic Collection to explore the origins of money, new monetary technologies, the political and cultural messages money conveys, numismatic art and design, and the practice of collecting money.
The display will include examples from the archive of Robert “Mack” McCormickʻs interview transcripts with Black blues artists, his writings, original photographs, recording contracts, instruments, correspondence and more.