Free Events: Museums
Check here for free museum after-hours events, films, music, talks and tours in the DC Metro area.
47 performances · 42 ongoing events
Performances
LACE, Elisa Monte Dance, DJ Twelve45
National Gallery of ArtSun. Apr 21
Signed JV, but Not by Vermeer: Young Woman in an Interior by Jacobus Vrel
National Gallery of ArtMon. Apr 22
Young Portrait Explorers: Rachel Carson
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryMon. Apr 22
Women Making Waves: Julie Packard and Marcia McNutt
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryTue. Apr 23
Gallery Talk: Collection Sampler
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. Apr 24
REMIX: Can You Dig It?
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThu. Apr 25
Thursdays at Noon: Curator’s Choice
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThu. Apr 25
Conversation Circles
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryFri. Apr 26
Open Studio Fridays
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryFri. Apr 26
Dead Letter Office: Gallery Experience
Smithsonian National Postal MuseumApr. 25 & 27
Portrait Signs
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryApr. 25 & 27
Family Day at the American University Museum
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterSat. Apr 27
Portrait Discovery Kits
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryApr. 21 – 28
Portrait Story Days
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryApr. 21 – 28
Living Earth Festival 2019: Farm to Table
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianApr. 27 & 28
Living Earth Festival 2019: Freddie Bitsoie and Sean Sherman
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianSun. Apr 28
Gallery Talk: Ursula von Rydingsvard
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. May 1
Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company
Smithsonian National Portrait GallerySat. May 4
Turbulence Opening Reception & Gallery Talk
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterSat. May 4
Contemporary Women Artists from Art21 (Part 2)
National Museum of Women in the ArtsSun. May 5
Fierce Women 2.0
National Museum of Women in the ArtsSun. May 5
Free Community Day: May
National Museum of Women in the ArtsSun. May 5
JRA Distinguished Artist Lecture: Elizabeth Brim
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterSun. May 5
Danish Clarinet Trio
National Gallery of ArtWed. May 8
Gallery Talk: Collection Sampler
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. May 8
Shenson Chamber Music Concert: Amaranth Quartet
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. May 8
After Hours: Evenings at the Edge
National Gallery of ArtThu. May 9
The Moving Print: An Evening of Print & Performance
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterThu. May 9
Free Landmark Lecture: The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
Tudor Place Historic House and GardenTue. May 14
Gallery Talk: Ursula von Rydingsvard
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. May 15
Isabel Pfefferkorn and Hanna Bachmann
National Gallery of ArtWed. May 15
Hawaiian Cultural Festival
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianMay. 18 & 19
Gallery Talk: Collection Sampler
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. May 22
Identify: Performance Art as Portraiture—Jeffrey Gibson
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryWed. May 22
Gallery Talk: Library and Research Center Special Exhibition
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. May 29
Whitman 200: Happy Birthday Walt! – Digitized Walt Whitman Collections from the Manuscript Division
Library of CongressThu. May 30
Whitman 200: Introductory Lecture and Workshop on Walt Whitman
George Washington University Museum and The Textile MuseumSat. Jun 1
Whitman 200: Walt Whitman’s Birthday Party
Library of CongressSat. Jun 1
Whitman 200: Art AfterWords: Book Discussion of Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryMon. Jun 3
Young Learners Tour: Color-Full Fun
National Museum of Women in the ArtsSat. Jun 15
Gallery Talk: Women Abstractionists
National Gallery of ArtMon. Jun 17
Air Force Strings
National Gallery of ArtSat. Jun 22
Air Force Strings: The Latin American Spirit
National Gallery of ArtSun. Jun 23
Tour: Italian Renaissance Collection
National Gallery of ArtThu. Jul 11
Open Studio Fridays
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryApr. 26 – Aug. 9
Portrait Party for Young Learners
National Museum of Women in the ArtsSat. Aug 17
Ongoing Events
Peripheral Visions
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterThru Apr. 24
Orchids: Amazing Adaptations
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThru Apr. 28
Lincoln's Contemporaries
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThru May. 19
Champions
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThru May. 19
One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThru May. 19
Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice
National Gallery of ArtThru May. 26
Venetian Prints in the Time of Tintoretto
National Gallery of ArtThru May. 26
Kenneth Victor Young: Continuum
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterThru May. 26
Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterThru May. 26
Turbulence
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterMay. 4 – 26
Postmen of the Skies
Smithsonian National Postal MuseumMay. 1 – 27
Daguerreotypes
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThru Jun. 2
Korean Craft: Yesterday and Today
Korean Cultural Center DCMay. 3 – Jun. 21
Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice
National Gallery of ArtThru Jul. 9
Beautiful Blooms: Flowering Plants on Stamps
Smithsonian National Postal MuseumThru Jul. 14
The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists
National Gallery of ArtThru Jul. 21
Baseball Americana
Library of CongressThru Jul. 27
The Life of Animals in Japanese Art
National Gallery of ArtMay. 5 – Jul. 28
Forward Press: 21st Century Printmaking
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterThru Aug. 11
Squire Broel
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterThru Aug. 11
Whitman 200: Whitman Bicentennial Display
Library of CongressMay. 15 – Aug. 15
Eye to I: Self-Portraits from 1900 to Today
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThru Aug. 18
Whitman 200: Remembering Our Veterans: A Memorial Day Remembrance
Howard UniversityMay. 20 – Aug. 31
Oliver Lee Jackson: Recent Paintings
National Gallery of ArtThru Sep. 15
Revolutionary Reflections: French Memories of the War for America
Anderson House – The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the CincinnatiThru Oct. 27
Portraits of the World: Korea Exhibition
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThru Nov. 17
Gallery Tours
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianThru Dec. 31
Rightfully Hers
National ArchivesMay. 10, 2019 – Jan. 3, 2020
Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThru Jan. 5, 2020
The Architecture of the Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare LibraryThru Jan. 5, 2020
A Century of Lunar Photographs from the 1850s to Apollo 11
National Gallery of ArtJul. 14, 2019 – Jan. 5, 2020
Andrea del Verrocchio: Sculptor-Painter of Renaissance Florence
National Gallery of ArtSep. 15, 2019 – Jan. 12, 2020
Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain
National Gallery of ArtOct. 13, 2019 – Feb. 17, 2020
In Mid-Sentence
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryMay. 3, 2019 – Mar. 29, 2020
One Life: Marian Anderson
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryJun. 28, 2019 – May. 17, 2020
The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianThru Jun. 1, 2020
Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote
Library of CongressJun. 4, 2019 – Sep. 1, 2020
New York Ave Sculpture Project
National Museum of Women in the ArtsThru Sep. 20, 2020
Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianThru Sep. 30, 2020
Nation to Nation
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianThru Dec. 31, 2021
Return to a Native Place: Algonquian Peoples of the Chesapeake
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianThru Jan. 1, 2022
Americans
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianThru Dec. 31, 2022
