September 23, 2006 - September 23, 2008

Beauty Surrounds Us

Seventy-seven artifacts from the Smithsonian’s extensive collection includes children’s clothing, games, musical instruments, a Northwest Coast chief’s staff with carved animal figures and crest design, Seminole turtle shell dance leggings, and a Navajo saddle blanket. The exhibit in the new 6,000-square foot pavilion also includes two interactive media stations with in-depth descriptions and close-ups of each object in the show.

February 17, 2007 - October 9, 2010

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Legacy in New Mexico

A long-term exhibit from the museum’s collection. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) first painted in New Mexico during the summer of 1919.

April 20, 2007 - April 20, 2010

How the West is One: The Art of New Mexico

Featuring popular works from the early twentieth century including Marsden Hartley’s El Santo and John Sloan’s Ancestral Spirits.

July 13, 2007 - July 13, 2008

Travels of the Crow: Journeys of an Indian Nation

The story of the Crow people through an array of 13 artifacts, including painted and ornamented shields, a headdress of bison fleece and eagle feathers, and a set of beaded regalia for a woman’s horse.

August 25, 2007 - May 25, 2008

1776-1876: A Century of American History in Art

The exhibit focuses on the museum’s collection of pieces that commemorate events and individuals in the first hundred years of the new nation. Also on display are rare documents, including the only known certified copy of the Declaration of Independence, a rare broadside of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln, and a letter from George Custer discussing field operations only months before the events on the Little Big Horn River in 1876.

September 28, 2007 - September 28, 2008

Across American

Featuring landscapes and scenes from rural America, urban America, and the American Southwest.

April - July 2008

J.E.B. Stuart's Ride and the 145th Anniversary of the Battle of Hannover

On July 2, 2008, Confederate re-enactors will set up camp in Union Mills, Md., as they did 145 years earlier. When they awake the next day, they will mount their horses and ride through the countryside, across the Mason-Dixon Line and onto a farm near Hanover, Pa. When the cavalry – led by Gen. J.E.B. Stuart – arrive, they will engage Union forces in a re-enactment of the Battle of Hanover on July 3, 2008.

This battle played a significant role in both the Battle of Gettysburg and the American Civil War. Without Stuart’s cavalry, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s army was left vulnerable in Gettysburg, just a day after the Battle of Hanover and Stuart nowhere in sight.

The public is invited to watch this rare cavalry re-enactment at the Sheppard Farm off Route 194, west of Hanover. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Land Conservancy of Adams County. Throughout the day, sutlers and living history activities will be held at the farm.

April 23 - June 19, 2008

150th Anniversary of the Design of Central Park

This spring, the Central Park Conservancy celebrates the Central Park Greensward Plan, an American masterpiece of landscape design, by hosting panel discussions, exhibitions, and free tours.