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Complete List of New & Upcoming Smithsonian Exhibitions

AFRICAN ART MUSEUM

Artists in Dialogue: Antonio Ole and Aime Mpane
February 4, 2009 - August 2, 2009
Special Inaugural Exhibition
January 17, 2009 - February 28, 2009
Black Gold I (2006)
November 1, 2008 - Indefinitely
African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection
February 15, 2007 - March 22, 2009

AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM

Spectacular Saturn: Images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission
February 2, 2009 - May 15, 2009
Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
April 24, 2008 - Indefinitely

AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM UDVAR-HAZY CENTER

Case: Japanese American Pioneers of the Jet Age
May 2007 - May 2009 (TBA)

AMERICAN ART MUSEUM

1934: A New Deal for Artists
February 27, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
November 27, 2008 - March 3, 2009
Graphic Masters I: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
November 27, 2008 - May 25, 2009
The Honor of Your Company Is Requested: President Lincoln's Inaugural Ball
March 8, 2008 - January 18, 2010

AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM

First Ladies at the Smithsonian
December 19, 2008 - New Permanent (new opening date)
The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise
January 30, 2009 - November 15, 2009
Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life
January 16, 2009 - Jan. 2011 (TBA) (new closing date)
America's New Birth of Freedom: Documents from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (new title)
January 16, 2009 - March 22, 2009 (new closing date)
The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem
November 21, 2008 - New Permanent
Artifact Walls: Constitution Ave. Entrance Corridor
November 21, 2008 - New Permanent
Artifact Walls: Mall Entrance Corridor
November 21, 2008 - New Permanent
Invention at Play
November 21, 2008 - TBA
Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration
November 21, 2008 - January 4, 2010
Thanks for the Memories: Music, Sports, and Entertainment History
November 21, 2008 - New Permanent
Archives Center Cases: The Civilian Conservation Corps Experience, 1933-1942
November 21, 2008 - TBA
Invention Case: Sporting Invention
January 7, 2009 - TBA (new opening date)
Lemelson Center Case: Jerome Lemelson: Toying with Invention
November 21, 2008 - TBA

AMERICAN INDIAN MUSEUM

Comic Art Indigene
Upcoming: March 6, 2009 - May 31, 2009
A Century Ago..."They Came as Sovereign Leaders"
January 14, 2009 - February 22, 2009 (new closing dates)
Cases: Orientation Exhibition
November 13, 2008 - TBA
Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian
November 1, 2008 - August 16, 2009
Outdoor Sculpture: Obelisk
September 11, 2008 - Summer 2009 (TBA)

AMERICAN INDIAN MUSEUM HEYE CENTER

Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian
November 1, 2008 - May 17, 2009
Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses
September 26, 2008 - September 27, 2009
Beauty Surrounds Us
September 23, 2006 - March 31, 2010

ANACOSTIA COMMUNITY MUSEUM

Jubilee: African American Celebration
December 7, 2008 - September 20, 2009 (new closing date)
Separate and Unequaled: Black Baseball in the District of Columbia
November 10, 2008 - Indefinitely

COOPER-HEWITT, NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM

Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection
Upcoming: March 6, 2009 - September 7, 2009
Fashioning Felt
Upcoming: March 6, 2009 - September 7, 2009
Solos: Tulou/Affordable Housing for China (new title)
October 3, 2008 - April 5, 2009 (new closing date)
Wall Stories: Children's Wallpaper and Books
October 3, 2008 - April 5, 2009 (new closing date)
Curators Select: Recent Acquisitions, 2003-2008
September 12, 2008 - March 1, 2009

FREER GALLERY OF ART

Winslow Homer: Four Views of Nature
November 24, 2008 - May 25, 2009
Moonlight and Clouds: Silver and Gold in the Arts of Japan
November 8, 2008 - November 8, 2009 (new closing date)
Golden Seams: The Japanese Art of Mending Ceramics
November 8, 2008 - November 8, 2009 (new closing date)
Guests of the Hills: Travelers and Recluses in Chinese Landscape Painting
August 23, 2008 - February 22, 2009
Freer & Whistler: Points of Contact
February 23, 2008 - Indefinitely
Surface Beauty: American Art and Freer's Aesthetic Vision
February 23, 2008 - Indefinitely

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM & SCULPTURE GARDEN

Louise Bourgeois
February 26, 2009 - May 17, 2009
Black Box: Ori Gersht
December 22, 2008 - April 12, 2009 Rotating Exhibition
Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection
December 11, 2008 - late 2009 (new closing date)
Directions -- Terence Gower, Public Spirit: The Hirshhorn Project
November 5, 2008 - March 22, 2009

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake
February 7, 2009 - February 6, 2011 (new closing date)
Orchids through Darwin's Eyes: 15th Annual Orchid Show
January 24, 2009 - April 26, 2009
Cases: The Art of African Exploration
December 9, 2008 - August 15, 2009 (new closing date)
Coastal America Ocean Art Contest
December 8, 2008 - March 29, 2009
Nature's Best 2008 Photography Awards: Windland Smith Rice International Awards
November 8, 2008 - May 3, 2009
The Sant Ocean Hall
September 27, 2008 - New Permanent
Dig It! The Secrets of Soil
July 19, 2008 - January 3, 2010
Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution
February 15, 2008 - New Permanent

PORTRAIT GALLERY

Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture
Upcoming: March 27, 2009 - August 2, 2009
Presidents in Waiting
January 20, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Portraiture Now: Feature Photography
November 26, 2008 - September 27, 2009
One Life: The Mask of Lincoln
November 7, 2008 - July 5, 2009
Tokens of Affection and Regard: Photographic Jewelry and Its Makers
October 24, 2008 - June 21, 2009
Women of Our Time: Twentieth-Century Photographs
October 10, 2008 - February 1, 2009
Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture
May 9, 2008 - February 8, 2009

POSTAL MUSEUM

Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War
Upcoming: March 6, 2009 - March 8, 2009
Stamp Sketches of Lincoln
February 12, 2009 - Oct. 2009
Abraham Lincoln Certified Plate Proofs
November 15, 2008 - Oct. 2010 (new opening date)
Alphabetilately: An Alphabet of Philately
September 26, 2008 - October 29, 2009
Victory Mail
March 6, 2008 - March 8, 2010
Amelia Earhart's Personal Collection
November 12, 2007 - Indefinitely
Part II: Rarity Revealed: The Benjamin K. Miller Collection
November 5, 2007 - March 1, 2009 (new closing date)
Postal Inspectors: The Silent Service
February 7, 2007 - Indefinitely (new closing date)

RENWICK GALLERY

The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene
Upcoming: March 13, 2009 - June 7, 2009

RIPLEY CENTER (INTERNATIONAL GALLERY)

Staff Photo Contest Winners: 2008
March 4, 2009 - May 31, 2009 (new opening date)
Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968
November 8, 2008 - March 9, 2009
After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy
November 8, 2008 - March 9, 2009

SACKLER GALLERY

The Tale of Shuten Doji
Upcoming: March 21, 2009 - September 20, 2009
Moving Perspectives: Lida Abdul and Dinh Q Le
December 6, 2008 - March 1, 2009
Perspectives: S-Curve by Anish Kapoor
November 22, 2008 - July 19, 2009
Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia
April 1, 2007 - through 2010

SMITHSONIAN CASTLE

Smithsonian Information Center
Open - Permanent
Cases: Scientific Illustrators: Artists in Residence in the Castle
October 30, 2008 - TBA
Eyes on the World: Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest
July 1, 2008 - February 17, 2009 (new closing date)

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