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Upcoming and Ongoing Events

May 2013

May 24, 2013 to July 6, 2013

The Way We Worked

May 7, 2013

CONSTITUTION USA with Peter Sagal

Does the Constitution have what it takes to keep up with modern America? Join Peter Sagal, host of NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! as he hits the road to find out. Traveling across the country by motorcycle, Sagal is in search of where the U.S. Constitution lives, how it works and how it doesn’t… how it unites us as a nation and how it has nearly torn us apart.

April 2013

April 27, 2013 to September 2, 2013

Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s

Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s showcases six Depression-era expositions that brought visions of a brighter future to tens of millions of Americans.

February 2013

February 16, 2013 to June 9, 2013

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

An exhibition exploring the presence of Africans and their descendants in Europe from the late 1400s to the early 1600s and the roles these individuals played in society as reflected in art.

February 10, 2013 to May 19, 2013

Wari: Pre-Inca Lords of Peru

Wari’s capital is one of the largest archaeological sites in South America. From AD 600 and 1000, its denizens created an exhilarating episode in the history of the Americas by forging a society now widely regarded as one of the western hemisphere’s first empires.

 

January 2013

January 24, 2013 to May 24, 2013

Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story

A groundbreaking retrospective of the works of African American photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris (1908-1998)