Now available, our digital program guide.

Creating Poetry From Your Family History: A Writing Workshop

Medical History in Philadelphia: Including America's Oldest Hospital
All-Day Tour

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Rock Creek Park Tour Postponed

Due to flash flooding, the tour of Rock Creek Park originally scheduled for September 30th at 9:30am is being rescheduled for Friday October 7th at 9:30am. All other details of the tour remain the same.

If you are unable to attend this new date, please notify Customer Service by 5 p.m. on Monday, October 3 by calling (202) 633-3030 (M-F; 9-5) or email us at CustomerService@SmithsonianAssociates.org

DC’s Historic Sites: Welcome to Georgetown
	Our D.C. lunchtime lecture series continues with a focus on Georgetown. Founded in 1751, it predates the establishment of the federal district and Washington City by 40 years. Each week, expert lecturers focus on one of the extraordinary historic places that make Georgetown the unique neighborhood it is. This lecture features the Oak Hill Cemetery. Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 12:00 PM

Meet Astronaut Mike Massimino—No Ordinary Spaceman
	Former astronaut Mike Massimino is the veteran of NASA space flights aboard space shuttles Columbia and Atlantis. His final mission was to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 2009. He tells a compelling story about following a dream and what having the “right stuff” really means—at NASA, in space, and in life. Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 6:45 PM

Challenges in Cheetah Conservation

Laurie Marker, founder of the Namibia-based Cheetah Conservation Fund and Suzan Murray, the director of the Smithsonian Global Health Program at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, delve into the complex network of social, economic and environmental problems that must be unraveled if the cheetah, Africa's most endangered big cat, is to have a permanent place on Earth.

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 6:45 PM

Taraji P. Henson: This Cookie Doesn’t Crumble

At the center of Fox’s wildly popular hip-hop drama, Empire, is the captivating Cookie Lyon. The force behind Cookie is D.C. native Taraji P. Henson, an Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner. Henson talks about her new memoir, Around the Way Girl, about making a life and building career—and what really happens behind the scenes on Empire.

Saturday, October 22, 2016 - 1:00 PM

Novelist Jodi Picoult: On Tackling Tough Topics
	In a conversation with NPR’s Lynn Neary, best-selling author Jodi Picoult discusses her career, inspirations, writing process, and why the issues she takes on in her latest book Small Great Things spoke to her as a novelist. Wednesday, October 26, 2016 - 6:45 PM