September 21, 2004–April 1, 2019 -  The exhibition focuses on indigenous cosmologies worldviews and philosophies related to the creation and order of the universe and the spiritual relationship between humankind and the natural world. Organized around the solar year, the exhibition introduces visitors to indigenous peoples from across the Western Hemisphere who continue t...

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Two large-scale group portraits from the Dutch Golden Age, on long-term loan from the Rijksmuseum and the Amsterdam Museum, provide an extraordinary opportunity for visitors to enjoy a type of Dutch painting rarely seen outside the Netherlands. In these imposing works, two of Amsterdam's most important portraitists from the mid-17th century, Govert Flinck (1615–1660) and Bartholomeus van...

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A selection of the museum founder’s extensive journals illuminate his dreams for the museum, passion for art, and relationships with emerging and established artists. Duncan Phillips was a prolific writer. Starting in his days as a student at Yale, Phillips wrote about art and literature, recounted trips abroad, and recorded his dreams for his museum. He generated lists of works desired and...

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The National Museum of the American Indian teaches our visitors, and people across the world, that American Indians are both a defining part of our past and a vital part of America’s unfolding future. This includes telling the bigger story of the complex and often disastrous relationship between the U.S. government and American Indian Nations, through the ongoing history of their treaties. ...

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September 21, 2014 - April 15, 2020 - This exhibition is the story of that relationship, including the history and legacy of U.S.–American Indian diplomacy from the colonial period through the present. From a young age, most Americans learn about the Founding Fathers, but are told very little about equally important and influential Native diplomats and leaders of Indian Nation...

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May 16, 2015 - June 4, 2017 - This exhibition centers on Filthy Lucre, an immersive interior by painter Darren Waterston. He reinterprets James McNeill Whistler’s famed Peacock Room as a resplendent ruin, an aesthetic space that is literally overburdened by its own excesses—of materials, history, and creativity. Like Filthy Lucre and the original Peacock Room, this exhibition invi...

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New York-based artist Jill O’Bryan’s polished chrome sculpture is "a celebration of longevity and a life well lived."  It takes approximately 97 years to breathe a billion breaths. “Our corporeal relationship to the number one billion is experienced both intimately and politically,” says artist Jill O’Bryan. “one billion breaths in a lifetime is a...

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Construction of the Inka Road stands as one of the monumental engineering achievements in history. A network more than 20,000 miles long, crossing mountains and tropical lowlands, rivers and deserts, the Great Inka Road linked Cusco, the administrative capital and spiritual center of the Inka world, to the farthest reaches of its empire.The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire explores the found...

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June 26, 2015–June 1, 2018 - This exhibition explores the foundations of the Inka Road in earlier Andean cultures, technologies that made building the road possible, the cosmology and political organization of the Inka world, and the legacy of the Inka Empire during the colonial period and in the present day.

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July 1, 2015 – February 26, 2017 - This exhibition explores the intersecting influences of science, innovation, industry, and the Victorian creative imagination through books from the Smithsonian Libraries and selected historical objects from Smithsonian museums. The industrial revolution that began at the end of the 18th century paved the way for a period of dramatic change in America...

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