We are smack in the middle of National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15) and museums all around our nation’s capital are celebrating the life and history of the 44 million people in the United States who are of Hispanic origin. Check out these exhibits in some of Washington, D.C.’s finest museums to learn about the culture and history that has significantly helped shaped America today.
At the National Gallery of Art:
- Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya
- The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera: Memory, Politics, Place
- Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906
At the Library of Congress:
- Spanish Missions
- The Cultures and History of the Americas: The Jay I. Kislak Collection
- Ethnography and Folklore: Alan Lomax Collection
- Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier
- Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age
- Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection
- Hispanic Americans in Congress
- The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
- The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War
At the Smithsonian Institution:
Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence
These exhibits are brought to you by: The Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
(Thank you Library of Congress for the list of exhibits!)
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