Browse the Museum's unique collection of papier-mâché models, learn how these objects were used to teach anatomy, then play the "Body Parts" game to see if you can correctly identify the parts of a human model.

American History Museum April 13th, 2025, 6:30 - 8:30pm EDT The Axelrod String Quartet: Stradivarius and Amati (Saturday series)

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History preserves our nation’s collections and tells a full and complex history of the United States.

The American History Museum’s collection contains more than three million historical objects—including the famed Star-Spangled Banner—and documents that explore the evolution of the American identity.

2024年11月15日 · In December and January, visitors will have a last chance to see some of the museum’s iconic popular culture objects, including “Miss Piggy,” “Kermit” and “Cookie Monster,” as well as Elizabeth...

The gallery features documents that reflect major events and themes in American history from the Smithsonian’s collections, public institutions, and private collections.

Open every day except December 25. The permanent exhibition, The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem, is the Smithsonian’s greatest effort to meet the dual challenge of preserving this treasured flag and communicating …

The collections include the Star-Spangled Banner, First Ladies gowns, a Samuel Morse telegraph, locomotives, Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers, an Alexander Graham Bell telephone, American-made quilts, Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves, Duke Ellington’s sheet music, and presidential artifacts.

2024年7月21日 · Mark Your Calendar: Black History Month, Exhibits, Jazz and More at the National Museum of American History

Covering the American past from the Revolution to the present, this exhibition will trace the unfolding of this American experiment through the museum’s national treasures and representative artifacts to examine our founding political …