Free Events: Museums
Check here for free museum after-hours events, films, music, talks and tours in the DC Metro area.
55 performances · 35 ongoing events
Performances
Gallery Talk: Live Dangerously
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. Dec 11
Gallery Talk: Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. Dec 18
Gallery Talk: Live Dangerously
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. Jan 8, 2020
Gallery Talk: Collection Sampler
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. Jan 15, 2020
Gallery Talk: Collection Sampler
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. Jan 22, 2020
Gallery Talk: Collection Sampler
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. Jan 29, 2020
Gallery Talk: Collection Sampler
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. Feb 19, 2020
Gallery Talk: Collection Sampler
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. Feb 26, 2020
Gallery Talk: Collection Sampler
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. Feb 12, 2020
Young Learners Tour: Spotting Shapes and Looking for Lines
National Museum of Women in the ArtsSat. Dec 14
Young Learners Tour: Color-Full Fun
National Museum of Women in the ArtsSat. Feb 15, 2020
Free Community Day: January
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. Jan 1, 2020
Tour: Fierce Women 2.0
National Museum of Women in the ArtsSun. Jan 5, 2020
Holiday Vocals
Anderson House & The American Revolution InstituteSun. Dec 8
Lunch Bite - Nisbet Balfour’s Letter Book of 1781
Anderson House & The American Revolution InstituteFri. Dec 13
ARCADIA Closing Party
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterSat. Dec 14
Citizen Lane Film Screening
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterWed. Dec 11
Native Art Market 2019
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianDec. 7 & 8
Portrait Discovery Kits
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryDec. 7 – 29
A Very Special Holiday with Marian Anderson
Smithsonian National Portrait GallerySun. Dec 8
Curator Tour–One Life: Marian Anderson
Smithsonian National Portrait GallerySun. Dec 8
Young Portrait Explorers: Marian Anderson
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryDec. 9 & 16
See Me at the Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryWed. Dec 11
Curator Tour–Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence
Smithsonian National Portrait GallerySun. Dec 15
Roundtable with Women Leaders of the Smithsonian
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryTue. Dec 17
Working Women: The Smithsonian Institution as a Case Study—A Symposium
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryWed. Dec 18
Portrait Signs
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryDec. 26 & 28
Gallery Talk: Collection Sampler
National Museum of Women in the ArtsWed. Feb 5, 2020
Tour: Fierce Women 2.0
National Museum of Women in the ArtsSun. Feb 2, 2020
A Book Discussion: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryTue. Feb 18, 2020
Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company A Tribute to Marian Anderson
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryFeb. 3 – 24, 2020
In Focus: Come Let Us Build a New World Together
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryMon. Jan 6, 2020
In Focus: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThu. Jan 9, 2020
Keynote Lecture–The Greenberg Steinhauser Forum in American Portraiture
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryFri. Jan 17, 2020
Morning at the Museum
Smithsonian National Portrait GallerySat. Feb 8, 2020
Portrait Discovery Kits
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryJan. 4 – 26, 2020
Portrait Discovery Kits
Smithsonian National Portrait GallerySat. Feb 1, 2020
Portrait InSight
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryJan. 16 & 18, 2020
Portrait Signs
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryJan. 23 & 25, 2020
Portrait Signs
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryFeb. 27 & 29, 2020
Portrait Story Days
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryJan. 4 – 26, 2020
Portrait Story Days
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryFeb. 8 – 29, 2020
Presidential Family Fun Day
Smithsonian National Portrait GallerySat. Feb 15, 2020
See Me at the Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryWed. Feb 12, 2020
Young Portrait Explorers: Fishes with Julie Packard
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryJan. 11 – 27, 2020
Young Portrait Explorers: Martin Luther King Jr.
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryFeb. 10 & 24, 2020
Conversation Circles
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryDec. 6 – 27
Open Studio
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryDec. 6 – 27
Portrait Story Days
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryDec. 8 – 29
Conversation Circles
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryJan. 3 – 31, 2020
Conversation Circles
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryFeb. 7 – 28, 2020
Open Studio
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryJan. 3 – 31, 2020
Open Studio
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryFeb. 7 – 28, 2020
Portraiture 101
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryTue. Jan 7, 2020
Portraiture 101
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryTue. Feb 4, 2020
Ongoing Events
Anderson House
Anderson House & The American Revolution InstituteThru Dec. 31
New York Ave Sculpture Project
National Museum of Women in the ArtsThru Sep. 20, 2020
Americans
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianThru Dec. 31, 2022
Nation to Nation
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianThru Dec. 31, 2021
Our Universes
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianThru Sep. 30, 2020
Return to a Native Place
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianThru Jan. 1, 2022
The Great Inka Road
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianThru Jun. 1, 2020
Gallery Tours
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianThru Dec. 31
The Architecture of the Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare LibraryThru Jan. 5, 2020
Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThru Jan. 5, 2020
In Mid-Sentence
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThru Mar. 29, 2020
One Life: Marian Anderson
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThru May. 17, 2020
Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote
National ArchivesThru Jan. 3, 2021
Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote
Library of CongressThru Sep. 1, 2020
Section 14: The Other Palm Springs
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianThru Jan. 1, 2020
Right to the City @Shaw Neighborhood Library
Shaw Neighborhood LibraryThru Apr. 20, 2020
Right to the City @Mt Pleasant Library
Mt Pleasant LibraryThru Apr. 20, 2020
Right to the City @Anacostia Neighborhood Library
Anacostia Neighborhood LibraryThru Apr. 20, 2020
Right to the City @Woodridge Neighborhood Library
Woodridge Neighborhood LibraryThru Apr. 20, 2020
Miniature Shakespeare Books from the Harner Collection
Folger Shakespeare LibraryThru Dec. 31
Moves Like Walter: New Curators Open the Corcoran Legacy Collection
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterThru Dec. 15
Topographies of Life: Pam Rogers, Lynn Sures, Mel Watkin
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterThru Dec. 15
America’s First Veterans
Anderson House & The American Revolution InstituteThru Apr. 5, 2020
Women of Progress: Early Camera Portraits
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThru May. 31, 2020
Storied Women of the Civil War Era
Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryThru May. 8, 2022
Installation of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 1784
Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianThru Apr. 15, 2020
None Swifter Than These: 100 Years of Diplomatic Couriers
Smithsonian National Postal MuseumThru Jan. 26, 2020
Comic Art: 120 Years of Panels and Pages
Library of CongressThru Sep. 12, 2020
Ornament: Fragments of Byzantine Fashion
Dumbarton OaksThru Jan. 5, 2020
ARCADIA: The Clyde’s Murals by William Woodward
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterThru Dec. 15
Christine Neill: Observations from the Valley Floor
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterThru Dec. 15
Dark World: Photographs by Frank Hallam Day
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterThru Dec. 15
Michal Heiman's Radical Link: A New Community of Women, 1855-2020
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterThru Dec. 15
Fair is foul & foul is fair
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts CenterThru Dec. 15
A Right to the City
Smithsonian Anacostia Community MuseumThru Apr. 20, 2020
