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As a public health precaution due to COVID-19 (coronavirus), America Now 2021 is canceled.
Please check back next spring for updates on our 2022 celebration.

America Now

America Now was established in 2015 as a three-museum collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of American History, and Smithsonian American Art Museum. It is made possible by the support of the Robert and Arlene Kogod Family Foundation. This annual, free, one-day festival celebrates the best of art and history in Washington DC.

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America Now is a three-museum collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum of American History, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum and is made possible by the generous support of the Robert and Arlene Kogod Family Foundation. The Washington Post is the media sponsor of America Now.

Photo Credits:
DJ at America Now at the National Museum of American History. Photo by Brightest Young Things
America Now in SAAM and NPG’s Kogod Courtyard. Photo by Pepe Gomez