Learn about the giants of the 18th- and 19th-century art scene including Watteau, David, Delacroix, Courbet, Monet, Toulouse Lautrec, and many more in this exploration of art from the Rococo to Post-Impressionism with Bonita Billman.

Through discussion, demonstration, and performance, Rob Kapilow and his guest musicians take you deep inside major works of Mozart to help you hear where they came from, what makes them tick, and what makes them great.

Show and Sale of jewelry and wearable art. All 36 exhibitors previously juried into Smithsonian Craft Shows. The Craft2Wear is presented by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

Learn about one of the world's greatest museums and its magnificent collection of cultural and art masterpieces in this vicarious tour of The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

The 21st Century Consort presents the music of our time designed to challenge, engage, and enjoy. This concert features the music of John Cage, Aaron Copeland, Joan Tower, and more.

Celebrate the donation of footage and artifacts from America's Funniest Home Videos with Vin Di Bona, the 39-year entertainment industry veteran and Emmy Award-winning executive producer in comedic reality TV shows.

Imagine drawers and drawers filled with plant species from around the world. That is what you will find during this behind-the-scenes tour of the United States National Herbarium at the Natural History Museum. Explore with Gary Krupnick, head of the Plant Conservation Unit, and talk about ways in which herbarium specimens are used in conservation research.

From the earthquake disasters in Haiti and Chile to the eruption of an obscure volcano in Iceland, our planet has been beset by geologic hazards. Is this business as usual for our planet or something more? Join USGS experts and find out.

Imagine drawers and drawers filled with plant species from around the world. That is what you will find during this behind-the-scenes tour of the United States National Herbarium at the Natural History Museum. Explore with Gary Krupnick, head of the Plant Conservation Unit, and talk about ways in which herbarium specimens are used in conservation research.

Kick off the Lemelson Center and National Museum of American History's "Food for Tomorrow" weekend with Peabody Award-winning filmmakers Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis sharing their new project "Truck Farm!" A special reception featuring garden-inspired libations and local bites follows.

Rail historian Joe Nevin leads this program with a round-trip excursion on the diesel-powered Potomac Eagle along the route of the South Branch Valley Railroad. The journey features natural wonders such as the river’s crystal clear water and the eagles, deer, and other wildlife that are frequently sighted. Lunch on board the train is included.

Free Program, Tickets Required: Food is a source of pleasure and anxiety, a lucrative market for big business, and a social and political indicator. Experts discuss change, innovation, and invention in global and local food sources, food science, new research, systems, and more.

A look at the various confrontations and collaborations that have taken place through the centuries between popes and secular rulers and the impact they had on the Church.

Free Program, No Tickets Required: An appetizing array of local food trucks—summoned via Tweets—arrives at the American History Constitution Avenue entrance with a wide range of flavorful fare available for purchase.

In this lively program at the Brickskeller, Ralph Olson, a 32-year veteran of the hop business, fills you in on the lore and legend of the bitter herbs as you sample an array of beers that showcase the flavor characteristics of different hop strains.

Free Program, No Tickets Required: What were cutting-edge technologies of the past? How will we make our food in the future? Will a cook need to be a chemist? Will we be eating slow food, fast food, or no food? Experts discuss past and emerging technologies, foodstuffs, and fuels.

Free Program, No Tickets Required: In the future, what and when will we eat, will it be good for us, and how will it taste? Discussion includes both past and potential challenges and successes related to baby food, family meals, school lunches, nutrition, and space food.

Washington Post wine columnist, Dave McIntyre, leads conversation and wine tasting with innovative wine makers from East Coast vineyards.

Imagine drawers and drawers filled with plant species from around the world. That is what you will find during this behind-the-scenes tour of the United States National Herbarium at the Natural History Museum. Explore with Gary Krupnick, head of the Plant Conservation Unit, and talk about ways in which herbarium specimens are used in conservation research.

President Lincoln traveled to Harpers Ferry and Antietam to visit the Army of the Potomac during the first week of October 1862. Many of the sites of Lincoln’s time remain at both Antietam and Harpers Ferry. You can see them and learn about them on this full-day study tour with historian Ed Bearss. Lunch is included at the Cliffside Inn in Harpers Ferry.

The visual arts of Modernism had a great variety of stylistic and conceptual forms from Picasso's cubist breakthrough to Pollock's abstractions. Aneta Georgievska-Shine discusses these, including works in the Hirshhorn Museum.

Led by Civil War historian Ed Bearss, this tour includes sites of significant activity, such as the Germanna Ford on the Rapidan River and along the Plank Road, where some of the worst fighting took place. Combined casualties in this battle are estimated at about 29,800 killed.

Hitler's Nazis amassed a vast art collection, mostly by illegal means. Five decades later, we are still sorting and returning works of art to their rightful owners. Tonight, experts discuss the ongoing issues surrounding this sensitive process.

In this evening seminar, the hidden symbolism and messages embedded in the design of St. Peter's Square are revealed and demonstrate that St. Peter's Square and Basilica are much more than architectural masterpieces.

Spend the morning at the Supreme Court and then in the afternoon, hear experts discuss the upcoming year's docket. This is your chance to hear how and why cases get discussed and decisions are made.

Professor W. Joseph Campbell highlights some of the most prominent media-driven myths in American journalism. One of his apocryphal tales includes the claim that Walter Cronkite's on-air editorializing altered the course of the Vietnam War.

Travel back 2,000 years to explore the life and lore of Cleopatra VII by viewing artifacts from her time within a unique exhibition at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. The tour is lead by art and archaeology expert Richard Mason.

Explore the many technical complexities and challenges of producing and singing Wagner's operas, deconstruct the elements of his operas, and see how scenography, orchestra, and singing are as important as the action in telling the drama.

A Grecian Urn inspired Keats to write an ode, and Chevalier used a painting as inspiration for her novel Girl With a Pearl Earring. Today, author Judy Pomeranz shares how to use art as your muse in writing your own story, memoir, poem, or book.

Robert Hirst of the Mark Twain Project, presents never-before-seen photos of Mark Twain and his family and reveals Twain's real thoughts on friends, foes, and society. Twain's autobiography, published 100 years after his death, is available.

Scholar Patrick McGovern tells the compelling story of the ancient quest for the perfect alcoholic beverages as he follows a trail of archaeological, chemical, artistic, and textual clues. A tasting of recreated ancient beverages is included.

This full-day program with Civil War historian Ed Bearss lets you walk in the footsteps of the Great Emancipator during his hours in Gettysburg. Lunch is included at the Farnsworth House Inn, parts of which date to before the Civil War.

The 21st Century Consort presents the music of our time designed to challenge, engage, and enjoy. This concert features the music of Charles Ives, Ellen Rowe, and more.

Join us as we follow military historian Ed Bearss to the battlefields of the 1781 Battle of Yorktown. Stirring explanations are given of some of the daring attacks on the British in what was one of the last major battles of the American Revolutionary War.

Travel across Africa with Smithsonian Curator of Mammals Don Wilson, and Research Zoologist Kris Helgen. Find thundering herds of big game on the savanna, mountain gorillas in dense forests, and unbelievably new mammal discoveries.

The 21st Century Consort presents the music of our time designed to challenge, engage, and enjoy. This concert features the music of Richard Wenick, Jordan Kuspa, and more.

The 21st Century Consort presents the music of our time designed to challenge, engage, and enjoy. This concert features the music of Joan Panetti, Olivier Messiaen, and more.