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Freshfarm ACM Farmstand
One-Time Events
The FRESHFARM ACM Farm Stand takes place on the outdoor plaza of the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum (1901 Fort Place, SE Washington, DC 20020) every Saturday (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) from April 20- November 23, 2024.*
The farm stand offers FreshMatch, FRESHFARM's incentive program, which provides a dollar-to-dollar match on all federal benefits (WIC and Senior and WIC FMNP) spent at the stand, helping shoppers take home more fresh and nutritious produce and local foods. The farm stand also accepts Produce Plus, a benefit program unique to Washington, DC, which provides locally grown, fresh produce to District residents with limited access to fresh, healthy food.
Park View Farms in Poolsville supplies the FRESHFARM ACM Farm Stand with their own homegrown produce and additional fruits and vegetables that they aggregate from neighboring farms.
*Weather permitting. Be sure to follow the Anacostia Community Museum for updated information.
Venue: Anacostia Community Museum. Event Location: 1901 Fort Place SE. Cost: Free. Get Tickets/Register: https://anacostia.si.edu/farmstand.
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Art Cart: Futuristic Forms
One time events
Can you imagine what the world might look like in the future? Join us for a close look at artist Giacomo Balla’s Futurist Flowers. We’ll dream about the future, explore, and make futuristic forms of our own.
Find the Art Cart on the Second Level to pick up your futuristic materials! Do this at home! Transform used cardboard materials into futuristic sculptures! Instructions here.
, ABOUT THE ART CART
Want to make art inspired by your favorite Hirshhorn works on view? The Art Cart offers young artists a hands-on maker experience during their visit to the Hirshhorn. Each week’s Art Cart offers a fresh and fun theme featuring an artwork on view, an artmaking activity to do at the Museum, and kids projects to extend the fun at home!
The Art Cart is free; no registration required. Drop in any Saturday between 10 am and 1 pm.
Nursing caregivers are welcome. Stroller parking is available in the Hirshhorn Lobby. If there are access services or accommodations that can make your experience more inclusive…
Venue: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden. Event Location: Second Level. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit hirshhorn.si.edu. Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Wonderplace
Ongoing Tours & Activities
This learning space designed especially for children ages six and under combines age appropriate activities with museum collections and touchable objects to provide a gateway to history and a place to exercise curiosity for the youngest historians.
Admission to Wonderplace is on a first come, first-served basis. At busy times, we may use FREE, timed tickets to minimize wait time if needed. Tickets are available for 30-minute visits on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required for the first session from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. To visit during a later half-hour session, visitors may pick up a ticket at Wonderplace in 1 West. The last entry using timed tickets is at 3:30 p.m.
Hours are subject to change.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Wonderplace, 1 West. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
SAAM Arcade
One-Time Events
Adventure Awaits at SAAM Arcade 2024! Join us for this annual celebration of video games as a creative force using coding and design as a medium. This day-long event features video games that celebrate the theme of travel, exploration, and the exciting possibilities of visiting real and imagined new worlds. The popular Indie Showcase returns, with a selection of innovative games published by independent studios and presented by their developers. Classic games and cabinets featuring cars, travel, and new worlds are provided by MAGFest.
Schedule of the day
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Quiet hours. Enjoy the program with reduced noise, borrow headphones, and experience all that Arcade has to offer in a quieter environment.
2 p.m. Triforce Quartet performance
5 p.m. Triforce Quartet performance
6:50 p.m. Last call for game play
7 p.m. Program ends
SAAM Arcade is made possible in part by generous support from the Albert H. Small Endowment.
Image credit: Norwood Photography.
Venue: American Art Museum. Event Location: 1st floor, Kogod Courtyard. Cost: Free | Registration encouraged. Get Tickets/Register: https://events.blackthorn.io/5f4ZMUx7/4a2bVRayVV.
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 11:30 AM – 7:00 PM.
R&B Yoga
One-Time Events
Presented by Khepera Wellness, join us for R&B Yoga, where the soothing rhythms of R&B music harmonize with the flowing movements of yoga, creating a soulful and immersive experience for the body and mind. This class combines the therapeutic benefits of yoga with the melodic vibes of R&B, offering a unique blend of relaxation, rejuvenation, and rhythm. This class is suitable for all levels, welcoming beginners, and experienced yogis alike. Ideal for those who enjoy the fusion of music and movement, seeking a soulful rhythmic approach to yoga. Spaces are limited. Participants should wear clothing that allows for the ease of movement and expression. Bring a yoga mat and optionally, water or a towel to stay hydrated and comfortable throughout the class.
Venue: Anacostia Community Museum. Event Location: 1901 Fort Place SE. Cost: Free. Get Tickets/Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rb-yoga-tickets-940267143337?aff=oddtdtcreator.
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Weekend Workshops
One-Time Events
Calling all artists! Get creative during our drop-in workshops for all ages. Learn about artists and change-makers and create art inspired by their stories.
Event Location: Education Center, E151. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Visual Journaling: Creativity Workout
Resident Associate Program
In an afternoon of artistic experimentation designed to deepen skills in visual expression, explore five modes of visual thinking: working from memory, observation, imagination, narrative, and experimental approaches.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260687?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260687?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Smithsonian Sleepover at the Natural History Museum
Resident Associate Program
In-person Program: Go on an interactive exploration of the Natural History Museum and participate in hands-on crafts projects and games. Then roll out your sleeping bag and dream away in the darkened halls of one of the world’s most famous museums! Geared for children ages 8 to 14 years old, accompanied by an adult.
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: National Museum of Natural History 10th St & Constitution Ave NW. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260755?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sunday, July 28, 2024, 9:00 AM.
Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Sunday, July 28, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Wonderplace
Ongoing Tours & Activities
This learning space designed especially for children ages six and under combines age appropriate activities with museum collections and touchable objects to provide a gateway to history and a place to exercise curiosity for the youngest historians.
Admission to Wonderplace is on a first come, first-served basis. At busy times, we may use FREE, timed tickets to minimize wait time if needed. Tickets are available for 30-minute visits on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required for the first session from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. To visit during a later half-hour session, visitors may pick up a ticket at Wonderplace in 1 West. The last entry using timed tickets is at 3:30 p.m.
Hours are subject to change.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Wonderplace, 1 West. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Sunday, July 28, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Sunday, July 28, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Weekend Workshops
One-Time Events
Calling all artists! Get creative during our drop-in workshops for all ages. Learn about artists and change-makers and create art inspired by their stories.
Event Location: Education Center, E151. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Sunday, July 28, 2024, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Sunday, July 28, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Sunday, July 28, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Monday, July 29, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Ocean Topics Cart Chat
One-Time Events
Looking for a deeper dive into ocean topics? Come and find one of our Ocean Educators to explore some of the latest discoveries in marine science, stationed at an interactive cart in the Sant Ocean Hall.
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, The Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free and open to the public. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Monday, July 29, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Portrait Gallery Kids
One-Time Events
Children and families are invited to learn, play and create at the Portrait Gallery! Join educators on select Mondays as we explore topics like colors, emotions, STEM and history. Portrait Gallery Kids incorporates looking at art, hands-on activities, music and movement. This program is a fun way to engage with art and each other.
Event Location: Education Center, E151. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Monday, July 29, 2024, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Monday, July 29, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Krakow: Off the Beaten Path
Resident Associate Program
Tour guide and author Christopher Skutela leads you off the beaten path in Krakow, revealing sites where tourists don’t tend to go. Explore historic neighborhoods, one of the hidden health resorts in Poland, and a former socialist utopia district. Then get a breath of fresh air at Kosciuszko Mound and Bielany Hermitage and Woods.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260550?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260550?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Monday, July 29, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Monday, July 29, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
The Battle of Remagen: A Pivotal Moment in WWII
Resident Associate Program
In March 1945, the Rhine River was the last natural barrier left open to Germany’s heartland. As Allied troops advanced, the only bridge still spanning the river was the Ludendorff railroad bridge at Remagen. Military historian Mitch Yockelson examines how the 9th U.S. Armored Division took control of the strategically vital bridge only minutes before German forces had planned to destroy it and how this pivotal action ultimately shortened the war in Europe.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260657?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260657?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Monday, July 29, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Research Outreach Day
One-Time Events
Come meet our 2024 NHRE interns as they share their summer internship research projects with visitors in our Exhibit Halls. Natural History Research Experiences (NHRE) is a 10-week summer internship program hosted at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). NHRE interns work with NMNH scientific mentors on research projects in Earth Science, Biology, and Anthropology.
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor and 2nd Floor Exhibit Halls. Cost: Free and open to the public. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
ONLINE | Youth in Action: Indigenous Skateboarding
One-Time Events
How are Native youth using skateboarding as a vehicle for change and community building? Join us for a conversation moderated by Bert Correa (Taíno) with prominent Native youth skaters. Our panelists Di'Orr Greenwood (Navajo) and Cameron Schenandoah (Onyota'a:ka [Oneida], Wolf Clan) will discuss the sport’s origins, rooted in Native Hawaiian surfing, to how it’s providing opportunities for entrepreneurship, creativity, and relationship building across generations in Native communities today. This on-demand video will be available at 1 PM ET on July 30, 2024 on the museum's YouTube channel. Alberto "Bert" Correa (Taíno) is a skateboard advocate and enthusiast from the Bronx. Correa is the founder and organizer of Battle for the Bronx, one of New York City's longest running skateboard contests. He is also an Education Program Specialist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
Di'Orr Greenwood (Navajo) takes pride in her tribal community and her Diné upbringing—rooted in the cultural…
Event Location: Online only. Online Link: https://www.youtube.com/@SmithsonianNMAI. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Captioning.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Trivia Night: Stars and Stripes
One-Time Events
We’re putting a twist on July’s stars and stripes in this trivia night about movie stars and military stripes. Join us as we contrast the glitz and glamor in the exhibition “Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age” with rugged portraits from U.S. military history. Our free collections-themed trivia game can be played individually or in teams of up to six people. Prizes will be awarded at the end of the evening. The Courtyard Café will be open during the event, and snacks and beverages will be available for purchase.
Event Location: Kogod Courtyard. Cost: Free. Registration Encouraged. Get Tickets/Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-gallery-trivia-night-stars-and-stripes-tickets-923901774077?aff=ebdsoporgprofile. Related Exhibition: Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:45 PM.
For more info visit www.eventbrite.com. The Wars of the Roses: Family Feud, Plantagenet Style
Resident Associate Program
Long before royal exploits were splashed across the tabloids, England’s ruling clan played out their dramas on the national stage during the mid-to-late 15th century. The houses of Lancaster and York brawled through a series of family battles known as the Wars of the Roses, marked by enough drama, betrayals, and intrigue to fill a television series. Tudor and Renaissance scholar Carol Ann Lloyd-Stanger looks at the conflict from the inside out, finding truth in the warning “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.”.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260569?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260569?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
Women and the Blues
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Blues music—African American cultural expression, musical style, and musical form—goes back over 100 years and remains a vital genre of music today. Women blues musicians have been there since the start and have made an impact well beyond the blues to all forms of American popular music. Explore how women musicians have engaged the blues genre to shape the musical and lyrical contours of and the social conversations surrounding one of the country’s most influential musical forms. The blues women of the past broke through barriers and created new spaces for self-expression, establishing an important legacy that lives on in the work contemporary blues women. Krystal Klingenberg, curator of music at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, is joined in discussion with blues and soul vocal legend Bettye LaVette and a sparkling newcomer, singer/songwriter Adia Victoria, about their work in the field today and the legacy that they share. Through conversation and live performances, learn about the…
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Hall of Music, 3 West. Cost: Free. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/women-and-blues. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Women and the Blues
Resident Associate Program
Blues music goes back over 100 years and remains a vital genre of music today—and women blues musicians have been there since the start. Learn about that rich history through conversation and performances as Krystal Klingenberg, curator of music at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, is joined by blues and soul vocal legend Bettye LaVette and a sparkling newcomer, singer/songwriter Adia Victoria, for a discussion of their work in the field and the legacy that they share. (Free program; registration required.).
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: National Museum of American History Nicholas and Eugenia Taubman Hall of Music. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/261214?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Wonderplace
Ongoing Tours & Activities
This learning space designed especially for children ages six and under combines age appropriate activities with museum collections and touchable objects to provide a gateway to history and a place to exercise curiosity for the youngest historians.
Admission to Wonderplace is on a first come, first-served basis. At busy times, we may use FREE, timed tickets to minimize wait time if needed. Tickets are available for 30-minute visits on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required for the first session from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. To visit during a later half-hour session, visitors may pick up a ticket at Wonderplace in 1 West. The last entry using timed tickets is at 3:30 p.m.
Hours are subject to change.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Wonderplace, 1 West. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Enid A. Haupt Garden Tour
Smithsonian Gardens
Free weekly tours of the Enid A. Haupt Garden are offered every Wednesday at 10 a.m. from May 22 through September 25, 2024, weather permitting.
Meet one of our knowledgeable docents by the tour sign in the Enid A. Haupt Garden near the south entrance to the Smithsonian Castle. No reservation is required.
Please note there are no tours on federal holidays.
Venue: Smithsonian Castle. Event Location: Enid A. Haupt Garden. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM.
For more info visit gardens.si.edu. Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Play Date at NMNH: Buzzing Bees
One-Time Events
Join us on for a special Wednesday family play date with museum educators!
Wednesday, July 31 is about bees! Families can make close observations of select pieces from our collection, learn why bees live together in colonies, and create their own piece of a bee colony!
The event is part of our drop-in program, Play Date at NMNH. Play Date at NMNH is a program designed for early learners and their caregivers and families. Activities are designed with early learners in mind, but all ages are welcome.
Location: This program is held in Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center, on the Ground Floor of the museum. Please enter through the Constitution Avenue entrance. Q?rius is located on the right as you enter the museum.
Accessibility: Access services such as American Sign Language interpretation, real-time captioning (CART), or audio-description are available with advanced notice. However, accommodations may not be possible with less than two-weeks advanced notice. To request this service,…
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center (Ground Floor). Cost: Free. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM.
CANCELLED - Coral Reef Tank Talk
One-Time Events
This event has been cancelled for July 31.
Swim by the Sant Ocean Hall to meet some of the coral reef species that call the Smithsonian NMNH home! Hosted by an Ocean Educator, this interactive cart experience will walk you through the world of saltwater fish, coral colonies, and invertebrates galore!
Image Credit: Sant Ocean Hall, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, from the main hall, 2nd floor. Photo by Jennifer Renteria, Smithsonian.
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, The Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
DC | Chef’s Table: Alex Strong, Executive Chef, Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe
One-Time Events
Meet Executive Chef Alex Strong when you join us for a special chef's table at the Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. The chef's table menu features Bacalaitos (salt cod fritter), with a side of Sancocho Stew (pumpkin, beans, corn, and potatoes) with a cilantro aioli.
Venue: American Indian Museum DC. Event Location: Level 1, Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe. Cost: Free to attend. Menu items may vary in price.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Preservation Treasure Hunt
One-Time Events
Join us on Wednesday, July 31st from 1:00PM to 3:00PM, for a Preservation Treasure Hunt! Embark on a journey through our galleries to uncover inspiring stories of achievement and resilience within the African American community. This engaging scavenger hunt hosted by the Save Our African American Treasures program invites guests to explore the museum in teams.
Have fun while you discover artifacts highlighting African American success stories and learn valuable tips on how to preserve your family photographs, papers, and other cherished memorabilia. Whether you are a returning or a first-time visitor, individual or group, this interactive adventure promises a fascinating and educational experience for all ages.
Event Location: 2nd Floor - Target Learning Classrooms. Cost: Free. Get Tickets/Register: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/96171049.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Ship to Shore: Live from the C-Innovation M/V Island Intervention
One-Time Events
Travel with us to the Gulf of Mexico as we chat -live- with scientists on board the C-Innovation M/V Island Intervention where scientists are hard at work trying to restore and learn about the seafloor.
Photo Credit: Per Karlsson via Flickr.
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, Explorer Theater in the Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free and open to the public. Related Events: This event repeats at 2:30 p.m. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
Ship to Shore: Live from the C-Innovation M/V Island Intervention
One-Time Events
Travel with us to the Gulf of Mexico as we chat -live- with scientists on board the C-Innovation M/V Island Intervention where scientists are hard at work trying to restore and learn about the seafloor.
Photo Credit: Per Karlsson via Flickr.
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, Explorer Theater in the Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free and open to the public. Related Events: This event also occurs at 1:30 p.m. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Double Take: An Artist and an Olympian
One-Time Events
SOLD OUT
One of the most memorable images from the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City is the symbolic act of protest by Tommie Smith, winner of the men’s 200-meter race. During the medal ceremony, Smith bowed his head and raised his fist as an assertion of Black solidarity in the fight for human rights. Decades later, artist Glenn Kaino collaborated with Smith to create the monumental sculpture Bridge, which will go on view in SAAM's Luce Foundation Center on July 26 to coincide with the opening of the Olympic Games. Join Sarah Newman, the James Dicke Curator of Contemporary Art at SAAM, and Damion Thomas, curator of sport at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, as they discuss the impact of Bridge and the gesture that inspired it.
This program is part of the Double Take series where Smithsonian specialists from different disciplines team up to talk about artworks from SAAM’s collection.
Image credit: Installation photography of Glenn Kaino: Bridge, Smithsonian…
Venue: American Art Museum. Event Location: Meet in G Street Lobby. Cost: SOLD OUT
Free | Registration encouraged. Get Tickets/Register: https://events.blackthorn.io/5f4ZMUx7/4a2bVRbSmv. Related Exhibition: Glenn Kaino: Bridge.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 5:30 PM.
Thomas Jefferson and the Nuances of Leadership
Resident Associate Program
Thomas Jefferson, primary author of the Declaration of Independence and our third president, has been called the architect of American democracy. Yet his legacy has been questioned in large part because he owned over 600 slaves during his lifetime. Historian John Ragosta examines the question of what a white slave-owning aristocrat has to teach us about the nature of American leadership.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260551?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260551?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 6:45 PM – 8:15 PM.
CA | ONSITE Teaching the Impact of the Gold Rush on Native Americans of California: A Source Investigation
One-Time Events
Join the education team from the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian at Graton Resort and Casino to explore the newest Native Knowledge 360° lesson, The Impact of the Gold Rush on Native Americans of California. This Professional Development is for educators of grade 4 and up.
This primary source investigation provides newspaper articles, maps, images, and Native survivor accounts to offer teachers and students insight into a little-known but vitally important aspect of one of the most iconic events in American history—the California gold rush.
The lesson, designed for 8th–12th grade students, provides sources to answer the question: Do American actions against California Native Americans during the gold rush meet the United Nations definition of genocide?
The day will begin with welcome remarks from Greg Sarris, Ph.D. Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. Dr. Khal Schneider (Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria) will then provide a historical introduction to the gold…
Event Location: Graton Resort and Casino 288 Golf Course Drive West Rohnert Park, CA 94928. Cost: Capacity has been reached and registration is now closed.
Thursday, August 1, 2024, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Thursday, August 1, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Wonderplace
Ongoing Tours & Activities
This learning space designed especially for children ages six and under combines age appropriate activities with museum collections and touchable objects to provide a gateway to history and a place to exercise curiosity for the youngest historians.
Admission to Wonderplace is on a first come, first-served basis. At busy times, we may use FREE, timed tickets to minimize wait time if needed. Tickets are available for 30-minute visits on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required for the first session from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. To visit during a later half-hour session, visitors may pick up a ticket at Wonderplace in 1 West. The last entry using timed tickets is at 3:30 p.m.
Hours are subject to change.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Wonderplace, 1 West. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Thursday, August 1, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Thursday, August 1, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Science on a Sphere
One-Time Events
Come explore our blue planet with NMNH Ocean Educators. Through NOAA’s Science on a Sphere technology, you’ll encounter a series of interactive visualizations projected on the Sant Ocean Hall’s giant globe. Watch sea turtles migrate coast to coast, track ships through global waters in real-time, explore the changing climate patterns shaping our planet, and much more!
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, The Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free and open to the public. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Thursday, August 1, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Thursday, August 1, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Thursday, August 1, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
James Baldwin’s 100th Birthday Slam
One-Time Events
The National Portrait Gallery is celebrating James Baldwin’s 100th birthday with poetry and prose inspired by our special exhibition “This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance.” The slam will create community conversation around Baldwin’s writing and legacy. This event is held in collaboration with A Gathering of the Tribes, a platform for diverse, traditionally underrepresented artists and writers that amplifies the revolutionary voices of our time.
Event Location: Kogod Courtyard. Cost: Free. Registration Encouraged. Get Tickets/Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/national-portrait-gallery-810710525. Related Exhibition: This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance.
Thursday, August 1, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
For more info visit www.eventbrite.com. Chinese Art: From the Bronze Age to the People’s Republic
Resident Associate Program
With a dynamic and far-reaching history that spans the Neolithic period to the modern age, Chinese civilization has given rise to some of the world’s most remarkable artistic creations. Art historian Robert DeCaroli explores that complex legacy by examining how shifts in China’s social, religious, and political life have influenced transformations in its material culture. (World Art History Certificate core course, 1 credit).
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260552?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260552?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Thursday, August 1, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
Otterly Amazing
Resident Associate Program
From their intricate social structures to their remarkable hunting techniques, otters captivate observers with their cleverness, charisma, and resilience. Erin Whatley and Paul Bradenburger, animal keepers with Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, reveal fascinating details about the natural history of these furry, semi-aquatic mammals—and reveal secrets of otter care at the zoo.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260832?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260832?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Thursday, August 1, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM.
Conversation Circles
One-Time Events
Calling all English-language learners! Join National Portrait Gallery educators and friends from all over the world. Together, we’ll use portraiture to learn about U.S. art, history and culture. This program takes place every other week. Meet new friends, learn about different cultures and practice your English. For more information, email Beth Evans at evansb@si.edu.
Event Location: G Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Friday, August 2, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Friday, August 2, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Wonderplace
Ongoing Tours & Activities
This learning space designed especially for children ages six and under combines age appropriate activities with museum collections and touchable objects to provide a gateway to history and a place to exercise curiosity for the youngest historians.
Admission to Wonderplace is on a first come, first-served basis. At busy times, we may use FREE, timed tickets to minimize wait time if needed. Tickets are available for 30-minute visits on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required for the first session from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. To visit during a later half-hour session, visitors may pick up a ticket at Wonderplace in 1 West. The last entry using timed tickets is at 3:30 p.m.
Hours are subject to change.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Wonderplace, 1 West. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Friday, August 2, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Friday, August 2, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Ocean Topics Cart Chat
One-Time Events
Looking for a deeper dive into ocean topics? Come and find one of our Ocean Educators to explore some of the latest discoveries in marine science, stationed at an interactive cart in the Sant Ocean Hall.
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, The Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free and open to the public. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Friday, August 2, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Friday, August 2, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Friday, August 2, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Past Lives
Films
Get tickets, Watch the trailer
Celine Song’s debut feature is a beautiful, heartbreaking romance featuring a magnetic performance by Greta Lee. Childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are separated when Nora’s family emigrates from Korea to North America. Twenty years later, they meet again and confront the choices that led them to where they are—and wonder what might have been. In an effusive review in The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw declared, “Past Lives is a glorious date movie, and a movie for every occasion, too. As ever with films like this, there is an auxiliary pleasure in wondering how much of her own past life Song has used. It's a must-see.” (Dir.: Celine Song, United States/Korea, 2023, 106 min. DCP, English and Korean with English subtitles), Films are shown in the 300-seat Meyer Auditorium. Preregistration (up to four tickets per person per film) is encouraged but not required. Seating is available on a first–come, first served basis for patrons without tickets. Image courtesy of A24 Films.
Venue: Freer Gallery of Art. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; Register in advance (recommended). Get Tickets/Register: https://icymi.eventive.org/films. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible. Assisted listening devices.
Friday, August 2, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Smithsonian Sleepover at the Natural History Museum
Resident Associate Program
In-person Program: Go on an interactive exploration of the Natural History Museum and participate in hands-on crafts projects and games. Then roll out your sleeping bag and dream away in the darkened halls of one of the world’s most famous museums! Geared for children ages 8 to 14 years old, accompanied by an adult.
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: National Museum of Natural History 10th St & Constitution Ave NW. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260756?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Friday, August 2, 2024, 7:00 PM – Saturday, August 3, 2024, 9:00 AM.
Joy of African Movement
One-Time Events
Mentally and physically recharge with our Joy of African Movement series using a variety of African dance movements led by Afrochique, the premier African female choreography team at the University of Maryland, College Park. Learn traditional West African and contemporary African dance techniques.
Join us Saturday mornings this Summer from 9am-10am in the Pavilion!
Joy of African Movement Saturday July 13, 9am-10am , Saturday July 20, 9am-10am , Saturday August 3, 9am-10am , Saturday August 17, 9am-10am , Saturday August 31, 9am-10am, (doors open at 8:30 a.m.)
Ages: 16+.
Venue: African Art Museum. Event Location: Pavilion. Cost: FREE. Get Tickets/Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/joy-of-african-movement-tickets-936683524637.
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM.
For more info visit africa.si.edu. Freshfarm ACM Farmstand
One-Time Events
The FRESHFARM ACM Farm Stand takes place on the outdoor plaza of the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum (1901 Fort Place, SE Washington, DC 20020) every Saturday (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) from April 20- November 23, 2024.*
The farm stand offers FreshMatch, FRESHFARM's incentive program, which provides a dollar-to-dollar match on all federal benefits (WIC and Senior and WIC FMNP) spent at the stand, helping shoppers take home more fresh and nutritious produce and local foods. The farm stand also accepts Produce Plus, a benefit program unique to Washington, DC, which provides locally grown, fresh produce to District residents with limited access to fresh, healthy food.
Park View Farms in Poolsville supplies the FRESHFARM ACM Farm Stand with their own homegrown produce and additional fruits and vegetables that they aggregate from neighboring farms.
*Weather permitting. Be sure to follow the Anacostia Community Museum for updated information.
Venue: Anacostia Community Museum. Event Location: 1901 Fort Place SE. Cost: Free. Get Tickets/Register: https://anacostia.si.edu/farmstand.
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Growing Community: Planting Mid to Late Summer Veggies
One-Time Events
Join us for the final harvest of the spring vegetables! Gardeners will learn how to plant veggies later in the season and how to increase chances of success even with late plantings for the season.
Growing Community is the longstanding community gardening program at the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum. Through garden programming, residents of all ages can engage with the beauty of the natural world, a healthy food system, and their cultural past. We welcome the community to participate in our monthly workshops, taking place throughout the growing and harvesting seasons. All workshops incorporate themes such as gardens as places of community and connections to our cultural past; gardens as sites of stewardship and nurture; and gardens as sites of empowerment and access to good nutrition and healthy living.
Venue: Anacostia Community Museum. Event Location: 1901 Fort Place SE. Cost: Free. Get Tickets/Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/growing-community-planting-mid-to-late-summer-veggies-tickets-840525302807.
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Writing Workshop Inspired by James Baldwin
One-Time Events
Celebrate James Baldwin’s 100th birthday with the Portrait Gallery! The workshop will include reading and discussion of Baldwin’s writing and close looking at portraits. Using guided writing prompts, we will explore themes of social justice, sexuality, race, identity and resistance. This writing workshop accompanies the exhibition “This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance.”.
Event Location: G Street Lobby. Cost: Free. Registration Required. Get Tickets/Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/national-portrait-gallery-810710525. Related Exhibition: This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance.
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit www.eventbrite.com. Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Wonderplace
Ongoing Tours & Activities
This learning space designed especially for children ages six and under combines age appropriate activities with museum collections and touchable objects to provide a gateway to history and a place to exercise curiosity for the youngest historians.
Admission to Wonderplace is on a first come, first-served basis. At busy times, we may use FREE, timed tickets to minimize wait time if needed. Tickets are available for 30-minute visits on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required for the first session from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. To visit during a later half-hour session, visitors may pick up a ticket at Wonderplace in 1 West. The last entry using timed tickets is at 3:30 p.m.
Hours are subject to change.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Wonderplace, 1 West. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Seasonal Quick-Sketch for a Day
Resident Associate Program
Discover how to quickly capture the beauty of any season with loose lines and painterly colors using a quick-sketch watercolors method. Learn how to see like an artist, compose a scene, and draw more organically as you build your confidence.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260926?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260926?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Family Workshop: Preserving Chinese Paintings
Kids and Family
How do we preserve Chinese paintings that have creases and tears? In this hands-on workshop, children ages 6–11 will practice repairing artwork using reinforcement strips, a traditional mending technique. Get inspired by touring our Chinese art galleries, make your own art, and apply reinforcement strips so your artwork can safely make the journey home.
Venue: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Event Location: ImaginAsia Studio. Cost: Free; register in advance (recommended). Get Tickets/Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/family-workshop-preserving-chinese-paintings-tickets-938497079027?aff=oddtdtcreator. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
Stripes of All Types: Book Talk & Art Workshop for Families
One-Time Events
In collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI), this family program includes a presentation by children’s book author/illustrator Susan Stockdale, on her picture book, Stripes of All Types; a dialogue with Great Cats Keeper, Craig Saffoe; and hands on, play-based activities from the NZCBI’s program Little Critters: Nature Play. The featured book, Stripes of All Types, is an informative and engaging introduction to 19 exotic and familiar striped animals, all depicted in their natural habitats. It is one of Susan Stockdale’s many nature books which have received awards from the American Library Association, Parents’ Choice, and the National Science Teachers Association.
Venue: Anacostia Community Museum. Event Location: 1901 Fort Pl SE Washington DC 20020. Cost: Free. Get Tickets/Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stripes-of-all-types-book-talk-art-workshop-for-families-tickets-940288707837?aff=oddtdtcreator.
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Weekend Workshops
One-Time Events
Calling all artists! Get creative during our drop-in workshops for all ages. Learn about artists and change-makers and create art inspired by their stories.
Event Location: Education Center, E151. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Family Workshop: Preserving Chinese Paintings
Kids and Family
How do we preserve Chinese paintings that have creases and tears? In this hands-on workshop, children ages 6–11 will practice repairing artwork using reinforcement strips, a traditional mending technique. Get inspired by touring our Chinese art galleries, make your own art, and apply reinforcement strips so your artwork can safely make the journey home.
Venue: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Event Location: ImaginAsia Studio. Cost: Free; register in advance (recommended). Get Tickets/Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/family-workshop-preserving-chinese-paintings-tickets-938497079027?aff=oddtdtcreator. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Sunday, August 4, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Wonderplace
Ongoing Tours & Activities
This learning space designed especially for children ages six and under combines age appropriate activities with museum collections and touchable objects to provide a gateway to history and a place to exercise curiosity for the youngest historians.
Admission to Wonderplace is on a first come, first-served basis. At busy times, we may use FREE, timed tickets to minimize wait time if needed. Tickets are available for 30-minute visits on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required for the first session from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. To visit during a later half-hour session, visitors may pick up a ticket at Wonderplace in 1 West. The last entry using timed tickets is at 3:30 p.m.
Hours are subject to change.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Wonderplace, 1 West. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Sunday, August 4, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Sunday, August 4, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Intermediate Oil Painting - In Person
Resident Associate Program
Expand on your technical background and grow your practice as an oil painter. This class provides students with the opportunity to work on personal projects, set up a still-life arrangement, and explore figure painting from a live model. Unfurl your style with support and feedback from the instructor.
Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center 1100 Jefferson Dr SW. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260927?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Sunday, August 4, 2024, 10:15 AM – 1:15 PM.
Weekend Workshops
One-Time Events
Calling all artists! Get creative during our drop-in workshops for all ages. Learn about artists and change-makers and create art inspired by their stories.
Event Location: Education Center, E151. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Sunday, August 4, 2024, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Sunday, August 4, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Spanish-Language Walk-In Tours
One-Time Events
Spanish-language tours are returning! Join our volunteer docents on select Sundays for lively tours of Portrait Gallery favorites. We hope to see you there!
Event Location: G Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Sunday, August 4, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
The Boy and the Heron
Films
Get tickets, Watch the trailer
Legendary anime director Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke) returned after a ten-year hiatus to write and direct this hand-drawn, original story. After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family’s estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events leads him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a mischievous gray heron. When Mahito’s new stepmother disappears, he follows the gray heron into the tower and enters a fantastic world shared by the living and the dead. As he embarks on an epic journey with the heron as his guide, Mahito must uncover the secrets of this world and the truth about himself. Description adapted from Gkids.
(Dir.: Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 2023, 124 min. DCP, English), Films are shown in the 300-seat Meyer Auditorium. Preregistration (up to four tickets per person per film) is encouraged but not required. Seating is available on a first–come, first served basis for patrons without tickets. Image…
Venue: Freer Gallery of Art. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; Register in advance (recommended). Get Tickets/Register: https://icymi.eventive.org/films. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible. Assisted listening devices.
Sunday, August 4, 2024, 2:00 PM – 4:15 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Sunday, August 4, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Beginning Oil Painting - In Person
Resident Associate Program
In this course, gain the technical background and experience you need to get started as a painter. Working from museum masterpieces, still-life arrangements, or your favorite photos, explore basic painting techniques, including color-mixing, scumbling, and glazing.
Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center 1100 Jefferson Dr SW. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260928?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Sunday, August 4, 2024, 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Monday, August 5, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Portrait Gallery Kids
One-Time Events
Children and families are invited to learn, play and create at the Portrait Gallery! Join educators on select Mondays as we explore topics like colors, emotions, STEM and history. Portrait Gallery Kids incorporates looking at art, hands-on activities, music and movement. This program is a fun way to engage with art and each other.
Event Location: Education Center, E151. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Monday, August 5, 2024, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Monday, August 5, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Ship to Shore: Live from the Research Vessel Western Flyer
One-Time Events
Travel with to the Gulf of Mexico as we chat -live- with scientists on board the Research Vessel Western Flyer where participants in the Florida Institute of Oceanography's Peerside program are unraveling the mysteries of deep-sea sharks and corals!
Photo by Robert Schwemmer, NOAA .
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, Explorer Theater, The Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free and open to the public. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hll. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Monday, August 5, 2024, 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Ship to Shore: Live from the Research Vessel Western Flyer
One-Time Events
Travel with to the Gulf of Mexico as we chat -live- with scientists on board the Research Vessel Western Flyer where participants in the Florida Institute of Oceanography's Peerside program are unraveling the mysteries of deep-sea sharks and corals!
Photo by Robert Schwemmer, NOAA .
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, Explorer Theater, The Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free and open to the public. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hll. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Monday, August 5, 2024, 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Monday, August 5, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Composition
Resident Associate Program
This course examines fundamental concepts of composition and their practical application in studio art practice, offering participants tools to enrich their work as well to analyze and appreciate visual art in general. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit).
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260929?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260929?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Monday, August 5, 2024, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
Denmark's Defiance: Protecting a Nation's Jews During WWII
Resident Associate Program
In 1943, the people of Denmark—led by King Christian X—dared to stand up for their Jewish citizens in one of the largest actions of collective resistance to aggression in the countries occupied by Nazi Germany. To keep the population of 8, 200 Jews safe from arrest and deportation, the Danes hid, protected, and then smuggled most of them out of the country. Historian Ralph Nurnberger recounts this extraordinary act of courage on the part of a nation.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260851?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260851?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Monday, August 5, 2024, 6:45 PM – 8:15 PM.
Kathy Reichs: Fire and Bones Creating a D.C. Thriller
Resident Associate Program
Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs is known for her crime novels chronicling the adventures of Temperance “Bones” Brennan, a forensic anthropologist at the fictional Jeffersonian Institute. Her latest thriller, Fire and Bones, finds Brennan at the center of a Washington, D.C. arson investigation that produces deepening levels of mystery and, ultimately, violence—and a surprising link to the notorious Depression-era Foggy Bottom Gang. Join Reichs as she discusses the inspiration behind the novel and how she staged the thriller in the Smithsonian’s—or the Jeffersonian’s—backyard.
Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center 1100 Jefferson Dr SW. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260822?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Monday, August 5, 2024, 6:45 PM – 8:15 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Play Date at NMNH: Spots & Stripes
One-Time Events
Join us on Tuesdays for special family play dates with museum educators!
Tuesday, August 6 is about different patterns found in nature! Families can make close observations of select pieces from our collection, learn why some animals have spots or stripes, and create their own take-home artwork inspired by patterns in nature!
The event is part of our drop-in program, Play Date at NMNH. Play Date at NMNH is a program designed for early learners and their caregivers and families. Activities are designed with early learners in mind, but all ages are welcome.
Location: This program is held in Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center, on the Ground Floor of the museum. Please enter through the Constitution Avenue entrance. Q?rius is located on the right as you enter the museum.
Accessibility: Access services such as American Sign Language interpretation, real-time captioning (CART), or audio-description are available with advanced notice. However, accommodations may not be possible with less…
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center (Ground Floor). Cost: Free. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM.
Ocean Topics Cart Chat
One-Time Events
Looking for a deeper dive into ocean topics? Come and find one of our Ocean Educators to explore some of the latest discoveries in marine science, stationed at an interactive cart in the Sant Ocean Hall.
Image Credit: Phillip R. Lee, Smithsonian Institution.
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, The Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free and open to the public. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Dancing in the Dark: A History of Dance in the Movies
Resident Associate Program
Dancing has provided some of the most ecstatic moments in film history—whether it’s Fred Astaire gliding on the ceiling in Royal Wedding, Moira Shearer pirouetting through the dreamscape of The Red Shoes, or John Travolta burning up the dance floor in Saturday Night Fever. Sharing more than 75 video clips, media historian Brian Rose surveys 130 years of thrilling movie dance performances.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260553?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260553?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
Drawing Light and How the Masters Did It
Resident Associate Program
In this class, learn the strategies artists such as Rembrandt, Daumier, Cézanne, and Vermeer used to harness light and unify, intensify, and give dimension to their images. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit).
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260930?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260930?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Single-Sheet Books
Resident Associate Program
Learn four simple techniques to transform a single sheet of paper into a unique book. In each class, make two variations of each type of book: one shaped like a house, a maze book, an amulet book, and an accordion matchbox book.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260931?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260931?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Virtual Writing Hour
One-Time Events
Join us for a virtual creative writing hour at the National Portrait Gallery! We’ve set up an online space where writers can create, connect and draw inspiration from the Portrait Gallery’s collection. Bring a happy hour beverage of choice and write with us. We will provide writing prompts, and participants are welcome to bring their own writing project-in-progress. Attendees will write for about 30 minutes and end each session with a brief discussion or reading.
Event Location: Online via Zoom. Cost: Free. Registration Required. Get Tickets/Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/national-portrait-gallery-810710525.
Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
For more info visit www.eventbrite.com. The Provenance Trap: How Forgers Fool the Art World
Resident Associate Program
The history of art forgery is packed with stories of tricksters who, while more pranksters than gangsters, succeeded in fooling the art world and profiting while doing so. Art historian Noah Charney uncovers the "provenance trap, " a methodology that has most often and most successfully led to forgers fooling experts. He illustrates with intriguing, quirky, and enlightening case studies involving five famous forgers. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit).
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260766?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260766?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM.
The Hidden History of America's First Ladies
Resident Associate Program
The role is unpaid and undefined, yet many women serving as First Lady made pivotal contributions that helped shape the United States. From early trailblazers like Dolley Madison, whose residence on Lafayette Square was nicknamed the “second White House, ” to those in the role who are less well-known, like Harriet Lane—the first to use the title—explore how first ladies can personify persistence and perseverance. Join staff from A Tour Of Her Own to hear stories of America’s first ladies, not often recognized with monuments but ingrained in the fabric of history.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260833?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260833?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM.
Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Wonderplace
Ongoing Tours & Activities
This learning space designed especially for children ages six and under combines age appropriate activities with museum collections and touchable objects to provide a gateway to history and a place to exercise curiosity for the youngest historians.
Admission to Wonderplace is on a first come, first-served basis. At busy times, we may use FREE, timed tickets to minimize wait time if needed. Tickets are available for 30-minute visits on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required for the first session from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. To visit during a later half-hour session, visitors may pick up a ticket at Wonderplace in 1 West. The last entry using timed tickets is at 3:30 p.m.
Hours are subject to change.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Wonderplace, 1 West. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Enid A. Haupt Garden Tour
Smithsonian Gardens
Free weekly tours of the Enid A. Haupt Garden are offered every Wednesday at 10 a.m. from May 22 through September 25, 2024, weather permitting.
Meet one of our knowledgeable docents by the tour sign in the Enid A. Haupt Garden near the south entrance to the Smithsonian Castle. No reservation is required.
Please note there are no tours on federal holidays.
Venue: Smithsonian Castle. Event Location: Enid A. Haupt Garden. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM.
For more info visit gardens.si.edu. Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Coral Reef Tank Talk
One-Time Events
Swim by the Sant Ocean Hall to meet some of the coral reef species that call the Smithsonian NMNH home! Hosted by an Ocean Educator, this interactive cart experience will walk you through the world of saltwater fish, coral colonies, and invertebrates galore!
Image Credit: Phillip Lee, Smithsonian.
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, The Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
The Borgias: A Scandalous Family Portrait
Resident Associate Program
The Borgias—a family synonymous with murder, rape, incest, and torture—have been immortalized by historians, authors, and a pair of dueling series on Showtime and Sky. But was it all sex, simony, and scandal? Art historian Elizabeth Lev examines their political aspirations, religious conflicts, fascinating artistic commissions—which, despite their extraordinary beauty, could not redeem the family's reputation—and the surprising epilogue to the clan’s inevitable downfall.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260767?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260767?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM.
Drawing Light and How the Masters Did It in Color
Resident Associate Program
Using watercolor, learn the strategies Morisot, Constable, Monet, and Cézanne employed to harness light in their images. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit).
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260932?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260932?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, and Hal David: The Synergy of Genius
Resident Associate Program
Burt Bacharach composed for countless important artists during his storied 80-year career—which began in his teens—but he and his lyricist Hal David reserved some of their most visionary work for the magnificent Dionne Warwick. Concert pianist and Bacharach and Warwick fan Rachel Franklin explores the power and depth of their creative relationship and the extraordinary songbook masterpieces these great artists have left us.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260852?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260852?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:15 PM.
Exploring Alcohol Inks
Resident Associate Program
Take a dive into the possibilities of alcohol inks as a component of your mixed-media arsenal. With intense, saturated color, alcohol inks offer many possibilities on a variety of surfaces, from tiles to paper.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260934?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260934?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
Slow Shutter Speed Photography
Resident Associate Program
Slow things down as you learn to capture movement and low light scenes with longer shutter speeds. Topics covered include panning, zoom effect, intentional camera movement, tripods, drive modes, neutral density filters, and the camera settings required to take slow shutter-speed photos in bright light, low light, twilight, and night.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260933?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260933?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
Extreme Cat-itude: Exploring the Biology, Behavior, and Importance of Wild Felines
Resident Associate Program
Over the centuries, wild cat species have been inspirations for art, religion, mythology, and legends. They have also been a source of terror for many humans. Despite this, cats have somehow ingratiated themselves into our homes. Biologist Robert Johnson examines their evolution, highlights some of the most intriguing species, and provides insight into feline behavior, conservation status, and adaptations that make cats such effective predators.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260554?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260554?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 6:45 PM – 8:15 PM.
Unique Memorials of Washington
Resident Associate Program
The Jefferson Pier on the National Mall. A 170-year-old Japanese stone pagoda set among DC’s fabled cherry trees. A long-neglected fountain in the neighborhood once known as "Murder Bay." They’re among D.C.’s most unique, surprising and little-known monuments, memorials, and landmarks. Carolyn Muraskin, founder of DC Design Tours, knows their stories—and those of many more distinctive sites that visitors (and Washingtonians) often overlook.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260800?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260800?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Thursday, August 8, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Wonderplace
Ongoing Tours & Activities
This learning space designed especially for children ages six and under combines age appropriate activities with museum collections and touchable objects to provide a gateway to history and a place to exercise curiosity for the youngest historians.
Admission to Wonderplace is on a first come, first-served basis. At busy times, we may use FREE, timed tickets to minimize wait time if needed. Tickets are available for 30-minute visits on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required for the first session from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. To visit during a later half-hour session, visitors may pick up a ticket at Wonderplace in 1 West. The last entry using timed tickets is at 3:30 p.m.
Hours are subject to change.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Wonderplace, 1 West. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Thursday, August 8, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Thursday, August 8, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Drawn to Figures
One-Time Events
Discover your inner artist in this live virtual drawing workshop. Facilitated by artist Jill Galloway, each program will highlight a Portrait Gallery exhibition or a portrait from the collection. Open to all skill levels, ages 18 and up.
Event Location: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/national-portrait-gallery-810710525. Cost: Free. Registration Required. Get Tickets/Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/national-portrait-gallery-810710525.
Thursday, August 8, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit www.eventbrite.com. Science on a Sphere
One-Time Events
Come explore our blue planet with NMNH Ocean Educators. Through NOAA’s Science on a Sphere technology, you’ll encounter a series of interactive visualizations projected on the Sant Ocean Hall’s giant globe. Watch sea turtles migrate coast to coast, track ships through global waters in real-time, explore the changing climate patterns shaping our planet, and much more!
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, The Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free and open to the public. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Thursday, August 8, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Thursday, August 8, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
The Spice Race: The West’s Enduring Obsession with Asia
Resident Associate Program
Starting in the 15th century, many European nations competed to acquire pepper, cinnamon, cardamom, and other spices from Asia, as well as porcelain, silk, tea, and more. In this quest to obtain goods from abroad, these countries built empires, established colonies, and left virtually no corner of the globe untouched. Former foreign correspondent Adam Tanner examines why this historic Western focus on Asia is essential to understanding our world today.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260658?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260658?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Thursday, August 8, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Oil Pastels for Beginners
Resident Associate Program
Learn proper application and blending techniques for oil pastels, which behave like chalk pastels but possess characteristics similar to those of wax crayons.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260935?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260935?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Thursday, August 8, 2024, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
The Mark of van Gogh
Resident Associate Program
This introduction to Vincent van Gogh's accomplishments in drawing pays particular attention to his unique and instantly recognizable touch. Participants investigate how his imaginative mark making forms his images. In-class exercises revolve around drawing studies of his masterworks. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit).
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260936?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260936?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Thursday, August 8, 2024, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Thursday, August 8, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
The California Gold Rush
Resident Associate Program
The Gold Rush radically altered the development and course of history for California, the United States, and the world. It sparked one of the largest voluntary migrations of people in U.S. history, accelerated industrial, agricultural, and economic development in the future state—but also brought severe negative impacts. Katy Bartosh of California’s Gold Rush Museum examines the period and how the zeitgeist of the Gold Rush in many ways epitomizes what came to be known as the American Dream.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260823?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260823?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Thursday, August 8, 2024, 6:45 PM – 8:00 PM.
Behind the Design: The Art of the Stamp with Guest Artist Katie Kirk
One-Time Events
What does it take to make a postage stamp? How do you clearly convey cultural identities and historic events on such a small canvas? Join the National Postal Museum's Guest Artist, Katie Kirk, as she pulls back the curtain and discusses the design process with a stamp art director, Antonio Alcalá and recent stamp artists, Don Clark, Always with Honor (Tyler and Elsa Lang), and Ellen Surrey.
Event Location: Zoom. Cost: FREE. Get Tickets/Register: https://postalmuseum.si.edu/guest-artist-program. Accessibility: ASL-interpreted program. Captioning.
Thursday, August 8, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
The Presidio of San Francisco
Resident Associate Program
The Presidio encompasses more history than any other site within San Francisco. It was also the longest-operating Army base in the country when it shuttered in 1994. Historian John Martini unfolds its story that encompasses Spanish colonial settlers, 1906 earthquake refugees, more than 140 years of U.S. Army history, its dizzying variety of military architecture, and the Presidio’s notable transition “from post to park.”.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260801?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260801?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Thursday, August 8, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Friday, August 9, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Wonderplace
Ongoing Tours & Activities
This learning space designed especially for children ages six and under combines age appropriate activities with museum collections and touchable objects to provide a gateway to history and a place to exercise curiosity for the youngest historians.
Admission to Wonderplace is on a first come, first-served basis. At busy times, we may use FREE, timed tickets to minimize wait time if needed. Tickets are available for 30-minute visits on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required for the first session from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. To visit during a later half-hour session, visitors may pick up a ticket at Wonderplace in 1 West. The last entry using timed tickets is at 3:30 p.m.
Hours are subject to change.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Wonderplace, 1 West. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Friday, August 9, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Friday, August 9, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Ocean Topics Cart Chat
One-Time Events
Looking for a deeper dive into ocean topics? Come and find one of our Ocean Educators to explore some of the latest discoveries in marine science, stationed at an interactive cart in the Sant Ocean Hall.
Image Credit: Phillip R. Lee, Smithsonian Institution.
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, The Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free and open to the public. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Friday, August 9, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Friday, August 9, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Friday, August 9, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Evil Does Not Exist
Films
Get tickets, Watch the trailer
Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Happy Hour, the Academy Award-winning Drive My Car) crafts mysterious and thoughtful dramas out of the stuff of everyday life. In this haunting environmentalist fable, executives from a Tokyo-based developer come to the small mountain town of Mizubiki to reveal plans for a proposed “glamping” resort on nearby land. But the tight-knit community of locals struggles against this threat to their lifestyle and the natural environment they cherish.
Built on moments of subtle, absorbing drama and tension and filled with a deep appreciation of the natural world, Hamaguchi’s film lingers in the mind long after it’s over. Manohla Dargis writes in her glowing New York Times review, “I have watched Evil Does Not Exist twice, and each time the stealthy power of Hamaguchi’s filmmaking has startled me anew.”
(Dir.: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan, 2024, DCP, 106 min. Japanese with English subtitles), Films are shown in the 300-seat Meyer Auditorium. Preregistration (up…
Venue: Freer Gallery of Art. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; register in advance (recommended). Get Tickets/Register: https://icymi.eventive.org/films. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible. Captioning. Assisted listening devices.
Friday, August 9, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Sunrise Walk at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens
Resident Associate Program
Rise early and enjoy a delightful summer walk at Virginia’s Meadowlark Botanical Gardens with American Horticultural Society international travel guide Keith Tomlinson. The 95-acre setting features thousands of ornamental and native plants in numerous collections; lakes and adjacent forests that attract a variety of birds; a restored log cabin that embodies the colorful history of the garden; and a unique Korean bell pavilion.
Event Location: Meet at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens Visitor Center, 9750 Meadowlark Gardens Ct. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260778?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Saturday, August 10, 2024, 6:30 AM – 8:30 AM.
An Artful Weekend in Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Barnes Foundation, and Rodin Museum
Resident Associate Program
The art of Impressionist-era creators is in the spotlight during a 2-day visit to three of Philadelphia’s outstanding collections led by art historian Ursula Rehn Wolfman. The Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition “Mary Cassatt at Work” is devoted to the works of the Pennsylvania-born Impressionist, who challenged the conventional expectations of Philadelphia’s elite. “Matisse & Renoir: New Encounters at the Barnes” places masterpieces from the same period near each other and traces the development of these two artists. Showcased in an elegant Beaux-Arts–style building, the Rodin Museum’s collection of nearly 150 bronze, marble, and plaster sculptures represents every phase of Auguste Rodin’s career. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1 credit).
Event Location: Detailed information for overnight tours is mailed approximately FOUR WEEKS. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260523?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2023FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=264355.
Saturday, August 10, 2024, 7:00 AM – Sunday, August 11, 2024, 8:00 PM.
Conservation Workshop: Caring for Quilts
One-Time Events
SOLD OUT Join textile conservator Julia Brennan in a gallery talk about her efforts to conserve quilts featured in SAAM’s Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women exhibition before attending a hands-on workshop to learn about quilt conservation, repair and stabilization methods, proper storage, and handling techniques for heirloom textiles.
Attendees will receive a kit to practice their stitching and stabilization skills and sample housing materials as participants cannot bring their own quilts to the workshop.
Tickets are $30 and include the cost of materials provided during the workshop. Tickets are available beginning July 15.
This conservation workshop is a repeat of the Saturday, June 8 program; please register for either the June 8 or August 10 program.
Image Credit: Laura Hoffman.
Venue: American Art Museum. Event Location: Smithsonian American Art Museum, McMillan Education Center. Cost: SOLD OUT
$30 | Registration required
Tickets include the cost of materials provided during the workshop. Tickets are available beginning July 15. Get Tickets/Register: https://events.blackthorn.io/5f4ZMUx7/4a2bVRadPR. Related Exhibition: Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women.
Saturday, August 10, 2024, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Freshfarm ACM Farmstand
One-Time Events
The FRESHFARM ACM Farm Stand takes place on the outdoor plaza of the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum (1901 Fort Place, SE Washington, DC 20020) every Saturday (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) from April 20- November 23, 2024.*
The farm stand offers FreshMatch, FRESHFARM's incentive program, which provides a dollar-to-dollar match on all federal benefits (WIC and Senior and WIC FMNP) spent at the stand, helping shoppers take home more fresh and nutritious produce and local foods. The farm stand also accepts Produce Plus, a benefit program unique to Washington, DC, which provides locally grown, fresh produce to District residents with limited access to fresh, healthy food.
Park View Farms in Poolsville supplies the FRESHFARM ACM Farm Stand with their own homegrown produce and additional fruits and vegetables that they aggregate from neighboring farms.
*Weather permitting. Be sure to follow the Anacostia Community Museum for updated information.
Venue: Anacostia Community Museum. Event Location: 1901 Fort Place SE. Cost: Free. Get Tickets/Register: https://anacostia.si.edu/farmstand.
Saturday, August 10, 2024, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Saturday, August 10, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Wonderplace
Ongoing Tours & Activities
This learning space designed especially for children ages six and under combines age appropriate activities with museum collections and touchable objects to provide a gateway to history and a place to exercise curiosity for the youngest historians.
Admission to Wonderplace is on a first come, first-served basis. At busy times, we may use FREE, timed tickets to minimize wait time if needed. Tickets are available for 30-minute visits on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required for the first session from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. To visit during a later half-hour session, visitors may pick up a ticket at Wonderplace in 1 West. The last entry using timed tickets is at 3:30 p.m.
Hours are subject to change.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Wonderplace, 1 West. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Saturday, August 10, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
The World & Me: Deep Sea Dancing
One-Time Events
Join us for a special The World and Me trio of programs during the months of July, August, and September as we explore the Past, Present, and Future!
August's theme is Present, and we will explore the Earth's Deep Sea Ecosystems!
Join us Saturday, August 10th, for a closer look at different animals that find their home at the bottom of the ocean! See specimens up close, learn about the amazing diversity found in the deep sea, and engage with educators and scientists from our museum.
We are also excited to welcome Local Motion Project for two workshops during the event! Join Tabata Vara and Marina Cridge from Local Motion Project for a dance and movement exploration inspired by creatures of the deep! Workshop spots are limited, so please check in with an educator when you arrive to claim a spot. Workshop times will be offered at: 10:15am - 10:45am , 11:30am - 12:00pm, More about Local Motion Project
Local Motion Project is a non-profit dance organization in Alexandria, Virginia. We strive to create new…
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Ground Floor, Q?rius: The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Saturday, August 10, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Saturday, August 10, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Family Arts & Crafts
One-Time Events
Bring the family to the museum for an arts and crafts workshop inspired by our current exhibition: A Bold and Beautiful Vision: A Century of Black Arts Education in Washington, D.C. 1900-2000.
Materials and supplies are provided for a variety of make and take crafts including fans, masks, and greeting cards. The workshop facilitator Tamara Thomas is a sculptor, doll and craft artist, and designer.
Venue: Anacostia Community Museum. Event Location: 1901 Fort Place SE Washington DC 20020. Cost: Free. Get Tickets/Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/family-arts-crafts-tickets-946546023637.
Saturday, August 10, 2024, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Weekend Workshops
One-Time Events
Calling all artists! Get creative during our drop-in workshops for all ages. Learn about artists and change-makers and create art inspired by their stories.
Event Location: Education Center, E151. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Saturday, August 10, 2024, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Saturday, August 10, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Dissecting Design with Abstract Collage - In Person
Resident Associate Program
Learn to understand design and composition in nonobjective art using mixed-media materials and techniques. Examine works by various artists to discern the elements of composition, how they have been used, and how they are expressed in different styles. In turn, apply what you learn to your practice.
Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center 1100 Jefferson Dr SW. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260944?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Saturday, August 10, 2024, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Saturday, August 10, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Smithsonian Sleepover at the Natural History Museum
Resident Associate Program
In-person Program: Go on an interactive exploration of the Natural History Museum and participate in hands-on crafts projects and games. Then roll out your sleeping bag and dream away in the darkened halls of one of the world’s most famous museums! Geared for children ages 8 to 14 years old, accompanied by an adult.
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: National Museum of Natural History 10th St & Constitution Ave NW. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260757?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Saturday, August 10, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sunday, August 11, 2024, 9:00 AM.
Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Sunday, August 11, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Wonderplace
Ongoing Tours & Activities
This learning space designed especially for children ages six and under combines age appropriate activities with museum collections and touchable objects to provide a gateway to history and a place to exercise curiosity for the youngest historians.
Admission to Wonderplace is on a first come, first-served basis. At busy times, we may use FREE, timed tickets to minimize wait time if needed. Tickets are available for 30-minute visits on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required for the first session from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. To visit during a later half-hour session, visitors may pick up a ticket at Wonderplace in 1 West. The last entry using timed tickets is at 3:30 p.m.
Hours are subject to change.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Wonderplace, 1 West. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Sunday, August 11, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Sunday, August 11, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Weekend Workshops
One-Time Events
Calling all artists! Get creative during our drop-in workshops for all ages. Learn about artists and change-makers and create art inspired by their stories.
Event Location: Education Center, E151. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Sunday, August 11, 2024, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Films
Get tickets, Watch the trailer
This enthralling debut from Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Thien An won the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the André Bazin Prize from Cahiers du cinéma. The sudden death of his sister-in-law tasks reluctant Thien (Le Phong Vu) with bringing his five-year-old nephew Dao to their countryside hometown. On the road, Thien is drawn into a search for his long-missing older brother. A series of sublime dreams reignites Thien's suppressed memories, forbidden desires, and specters of his own youth.
What begins as a journey home becomes a pilgrimage marked by visual splendor and mystical overtones, a quest for understanding and certainty in a Vietnam that seems unable to provide any clear answers. As Thien battles with the existential question of what is worth living for, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell interrogates the persistence and complexity of faith, not only in the spiritual but in the delicate beauty of earthly existence. NPR's Justin Chan writes on this film,…
Venue: Freer Gallery of Art. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; register in advance (recommended). Get Tickets/Register: https://icymi.eventive.org/films. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible. Assisted listening devices. Captioning.
Sunday, August 11, 2024, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Sunday, August 11, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Monday, August 12, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Portrait Gallery Kids
One-Time Events
Children and families are invited to learn, play and create at the Portrait Gallery! Join educators on select Mondays as we explore topics like colors, emotions, STEM and history. Portrait Gallery Kids incorporates looking at art, hands-on activities, music and movement. This program is a fun way to engage with art and each other.
Event Location: Education Center, E151. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Monday, August 12, 2024, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Monday, August 12, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Dirty Jobs: How & Why Scientists Study Animal Poop
One-Time Events
What do orcas and sea urchins have in common? They both poop! Animals living in the ocean can be difficult to study, but, using the power of poop, scientists can answer tons of questions about how marine creatures behave, move, grow, and more. Come learn about how different poops, from mammals and invertebrates, are collected and used for marine science!
Presented by: Devon Lombard-Henley, Marine Biologist, NOAA Sea Grant Knauss Fellow in the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Photograph courtesy of Devon Lombard-Henley.
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, The Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free and open to the public. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Monday, August 12, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Monday, August 12, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Grant's Overland Campaign: A Portrait in Command
Resident Associate Program
Ulysses S. Grant’s rise during the four years of the American Civil War was nothing less than meteoric, and a critical part of his success was his ability to communicate his strategic vision to his subordinates. Historian Christopher Hamner uses Grant’s often-overlooked 1864 Overland Campaign as a window into his effectiveness as a commander and communicator—roles that proved crucial in driving the Union toward its overall victory the following year.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260853?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260853?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Monday, August 12, 2024, 6:45 PM – 8:15 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Play Date at NMNH: Elephants
One-Time Events
Join us on Tuesdays for special family play dates with museum educators!
Tuesday, August 13 is a special celebration for elephants! World Elephant Day is August 12th, but we will be celebrating together during our normal Play Date time. Come explore different elephant teeth, make your own habitat for our elephant toys, and create your own artwork on "elephant-made" paper!
The event is part of our drop-in program, Play Date at NMNH. Play Date at NMNH is a program designed for early learners and their caregivers and families. Activities are designed with early learners in mind, but all ages are welcome.
Location: This program is held in Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center, on the Ground Floor of the museum. Please enter through the Constitution Avenue entrance. Q?rius is located on the right as you enter the museum.
Accessibility: Access services such as American Sign Language interpretation, real-time captioning (CART), or audio-description are available with advanced notice. However,…
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center (Ground Floor). Cost: Free. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM.
Ocean Topics Cart Chat
One-Time Events
Looking for a deeper dive into ocean topics? Come and find one of our Ocean Educators to explore some of the latest discoveries in marine science, stationed at an interactive cart in the Sant Ocean Hall.
Image Credit: Phillip R. Lee, Smithsonian Institution.
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, The Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free and open to the public. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Orchids for Beginners
Resident Associate Program
Learn from an orchid-care expert how orchids grow in their native environments and beginner care instructions to keep your orchids blooming.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260937?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260937?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
The Maya of Yucatan: Ancient Monuments, Modern Lives
Resident Associate Program
The Classic Maya city-states of Central America that flourished from the 3rd through the 9th centuries famously "collapsed" in the 9th and 10th. However, in the distinctive environment of the Yucatan Peninsula the Maya experienced a greater continuity, and a resurgent Post-Classic Maya culture arose that persisted uninterruptedly until the incursion of the Spanish in the 16th century. Cultural historian George Scheper examines its achievements and legacy.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260570?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260570?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
Rodin and the Birth of Modern Sculpture
Resident Associate Program
Auguste Rodin is considered the father of modern sculpture. Yet his works were deeply inspired by ancient classical and Renaissance art. Art historian Judy Scott Feldman explores how Rodin’s fascination, even obsession, with earlier figural traditions inspired his fusion of tradition and innovation in “The Kiss, ” “The Gates of Hell, ” and his powerful “Monument to Balzac.” (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit).
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260824?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260824?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 6:45 PM – 8:15 PM.
Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Wonderplace
Ongoing Tours & Activities
This learning space designed especially for children ages six and under combines age appropriate activities with museum collections and touchable objects to provide a gateway to history and a place to exercise curiosity for the youngest historians.
Admission to Wonderplace is on a first come, first-served basis. At busy times, we may use FREE, timed tickets to minimize wait time if needed. Tickets are available for 30-minute visits on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required for the first session from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. To visit during a later half-hour session, visitors may pick up a ticket at Wonderplace in 1 West. The last entry using timed tickets is at 3:30 p.m.
Hours are subject to change.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Wonderplace, 1 West. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Enid A. Haupt Garden Tour
Smithsonian Gardens
Free weekly tours of the Enid A. Haupt Garden are offered every Wednesday at 10 a.m. from May 22 through September 25, 2024, weather permitting.
Meet one of our knowledgeable docents by the tour sign in the Enid A. Haupt Garden near the south entrance to the Smithsonian Castle. No reservation is required.
Please note there are no tours on federal holidays.
Venue: Smithsonian Castle. Event Location: Enid A. Haupt Garden. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM.
For more info visit gardens.si.edu. Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Coral Reef Tank Talk
One-Time Events
Swim by the Sant Ocean Hall to meet some of the coral reef species that call the Smithsonian NMNH home! Hosted by an Ocean Educator, this interactive cart experience will walk you through the world of saltwater fish, coral colonies, and invertebrates galore!
Image Credit: Phillip Lee, Smithsonian.
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, The Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Slow Stitch Fabric Journal
Resident Associate Program
Let your creativity flow as you slow stitch a fabric journal composed of your favorite embroidery stitches, embellishments, and fabric scraps. Build a repertoire of embroidery stitches combined with other textile-based elements to produce a finished, bound fabric book with a personalized cover by the end of the class.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260938?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260938?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Poetry Workshop: James Baldwin - To Whom Much is Given
One-Time Events
A novelist and poet of great renown, James Baldwin was an expert at articulating how hatred is destructive even to the bigot who harbors it, and why they “all, or nearly all, or nearly all the time” chose to harbor it anyway. After a dive into the NMAAHC’s Baldwin collection, we will explore his political poems and essays, discuss how his techniques reveal the innermost thoughts of those in power, and employ them so that our own writing articulates an honest view of the world.
The workshop will be led by international slam poetry champion, Anthony McPherson. McPherson's work incorporates various art forms, as well as a myriad of character impressions, to address race, art, and his own biracial identity. He's appeared on Button Poetry, in HuffPost, and Upworthy, and has reached over ten million views since his first viral poem, "All Lives Matter: 1800's Edition.".
Event Location: Online. Cost: Free. Registration Required. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtcOivrjIrG9NEhoGuYr-qDGpP7i32gWB8.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Hand Quiltmaking for the Non-perfectionist
Resident Associate Program
This class is for those who feel utterly untalented at sewing yet want to make a quilt. Journey from not knowing to bold experiments, finding your sense of quiltmaking confidence as you learn strategies for piecing, appliqué quilting, and finishing.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260939?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260939?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Floating Weeds
Films
Get tickets, Watch the trailer
In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent classic A Story of Floating Weeds in color with the celebrated cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu). Ozu concocts an elegantly simple plot, set in a tranquil seaside location, wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all. Capturing the joy and sadness of everyday life, Floating Weeds reveals Ozu’s distinct style at its pinnacle. Description adapted from Janus Films.
(Dir. Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 119 min. 1959, Digital cinema package [DCP], Japanese with English subtitles), Films are shown in the 300-seat Meyer Auditorium. Preregistration (up to four tickets per person per film) is encouraged but not required. Seating is available on a first–come, first served basis for patrons without tickets. Image courtesy of Janus Films.
Venue: Freer Gallery of Art. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free. Register in advance (recommended). Get Tickets/Register: https://nmaamatinees.eventive.org/films. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible. Captioning.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Walk-in Highlights Tour of the National Portrait Gallery
Ongoing Tours & Activities
The National Portrait Gallery is offering docent-led public walk-in tours on the Highlights of the National Portrait Gallery. All tours are subject to availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: Portrait Gallery. Event Location: F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. No Registration Required.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Poetry Workshop: James Baldwin - To Whom Much is Given
One-Time Events
A novelist and poet of great renown, James Baldwin was an expert at articulating how hatred is destructive even to the bigot who harbors it, and why they “all, or nearly all, or nearly all the time” chose to harbor it anyway. After a dive into the NMAAHC’s Baldwin collection, we will explore his political poems and essays, discuss how his techniques reveal the innermost thoughts of those in power, and employ them so that our own writing articulates an honest view of the world.
The workshop will be led by international slam poetry champion, Anthony McPherson. McPherson's work incorporates various art forms, as well as a myriad of character impressions, to address race, art, and his own biracial identity. He's appeared on Button Poetry, in HuffPost, and Upworthy, and has reached over ten million views since his first viral poem, "All Lives Matter: 1800's Edition.".
Event Location: Online. Cost: Free. Registration Required. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsf-GtrTksH9a5c-TYZ3iXrwy3IX9gH4b9.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
The Rise and Fall of Agrippina: Empress of Rome, Mother of Nero
Resident Associate Program
Agrippina the Younger emerges from history as an ambitious political strategist and a ruthless killer. Ancient sources seem to both admire her power and guile while questioning her methods, suspicious of the many convenient deaths that paved the way for her ascendance as Roman empress. Historian Colin Elliott leads an exploration of Agrippina and the complexities of her legacy—forever intertwined with the rise and fall of Nero—and how she impacted the history of ancient Rome.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260854?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260854?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 6:45 PM – 8:15 PM.
Portrait Drawing
Resident Associate Program
Capturing the likeness of an individual is a time-honored, essential tradition in art. In this class, students are introduced to the basic steps of how to create a convincing portrait using charcoal or graphite.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260940?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260940?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM.
NM | Native Cinema Showcase Santa Fe
One-Time Events
The museum's Native Cinema Showcase is an annual celebration of the best in Native film. The showcase provides a unique forum for engagement with Native filmmakers from Indigenous communities throughout the Western Hemisphere and Arctic.
All screenings are free and open to the public.
Program details and schedule, Screening venue
New Mexico History Museum
113 Lincoln Ave
Santa Fe, NM 87501
This program is funded in part by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, and received support from the Smithsonian initiative, Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past.
Event Location: New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Cost: Free.
Thursday, August 15, 2024 – Sunday, August 18, 2024.
Spark!Lab
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. 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. Activities for children and families incorporate traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with art, history and creativity.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab, First Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Places of Invention, Inventive Minds, Landmark Object: Ralph Baer's Workshop, Inventing in America.
Thursday, August 15, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit invention.si.edu. Wonderplace
Ongoing Tours & Activities
This learning space designed especially for children ages six and under combines age appropriate activities with museum collections and touchable objects to provide a gateway to history and a place to exercise curiosity for the youngest historians.
Admission to Wonderplace is on a first come, first-served basis. At busy times, we may use FREE, timed tickets to minimize wait time if needed. Tickets are available for 30-minute visits on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required for the first session from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. To visit during a later half-hour session, visitors may pick up a ticket at Wonderplace in 1 West. The last entry using timed tickets is at 3:30 p.m.
Hours are subject to change.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Wonderplace, 1 West. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Thursday, August 15, 2024, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Interactive Programs
Ongoing Tours & Activities
Docents offer interactive programming throughout the museum, in the form of Highlights tours of the museum, gallery spotlight talks, and hands-on cart programs.
Tours of the museum’s highlights generally take place daily at 10:15 AM and 1 PM. Additional tours may be offered on the hour between 11 AM and 3 PM as docents are available. Please check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Gallery spotlight talks take place throughout the day. Docents offer a 15-minute overview of an exhibition or briefly discuss a favorite museum object. Look for the "Docent on Duty" signs posted outside the exhibition entrances.
Docents stationed at carts help visitors get their hands on history and learn about the museum's collections. Carts are located throughout the museum, and you can check either Welcome Desk for today’s schedule.
Year-Round:
Available most days between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
Notes:
Programs are subject to docent availability; last-minute cancellations may occur.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Multiple floors. Cost: Free. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Thursday, August 15, 2024, 10:15 AM – 3:15 PM.
Ocean Topics Cart Chat
One-Time Events
Looking for a deeper dive into ocean topics? Come and find one of our Ocean Educators to explore some of the latest discoveries in marine science, stationed at an interactive cart in the Sant Ocean Hall.
Image Credit: Phillip R. Lee, Smithsonian Institution.
Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, The Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free and open to the public. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Thursday, August 15, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Take 5: Jazz at SAAM with Alex Hamburger
One-Time Events
Celebrate a uniquely American art form with Take 5: Jazz at SAAM, a series of free, live performances in the Kogod Courtyard. Alex Hamburger is a flutist, vocalist, and composer from the Washington, DC, area. Last year, her sophomore album What If? debuted, exploring the ideas of perception, transition, and the boundaries of human experience.
Borrow a board game to play during the concert and stop by the Courtyard Café to purchase refreshments.
Image credit: Nick Moreland.
Venue: American Art Museum. Event Location: Kogod Courtyard. Cost: Free | Registration encouraged. Get Tickets/Register: https://events.blackthorn.io/5f4ZMUx7/4a2bVRatu1.
Thursday, August 15, 2024, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Butane Micro Torch 101 for Jewelers
Resident Associate Program
Add new techniques to your wire-working toolbox with the use of a butane micro torch. Topics covered include torch setup and safety for your home studio, as well as melting and fusing to create distinctive findings and a simple chain with fine silver wire.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260941?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260941?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Thursday, August 15, 2024, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
In the Footsteps of St. Paul
Resident Associate Program
As the chief persecutor of believers in Jesus as the Messiah, Saul of Tarsus seemed the most unlikely candidate to become the lynchpin in establishing the early days of Christianity. But as the apostle Paul, he and his associates spread and shaped the emerging theology and began to attract gentiles, or pagans, as well. Ori Z. Soltes, a professor of Jewish civilization at Georgetown University, examines this remarkable transformation against the backdrop of the pagan, Greek, Roman, and Judaean worlds in which he lived and worked.
Event Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Online Link: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260768?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765. Cost: Click here to view prices. Get Tickets/Register: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/260768?utm_source=SI-Trumba-Calendar&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=2024FY-Trumba-SA-ev&utm_content=SA-Trumba-event&promo=273765.
Thursday, August 15, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM.