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Smithsonian Associates Streaming

Your newest link to our world of learning

Welcome to Smithsonian Associates Streaming, a new digital platform for the high-quality, engaging and varied programs that you've come to expect from us.

We invite you to join us from the comfort of your home as we present individual programs, multi-part courses, studio arts classes, and virtual study tours inspired by the Smithsonian's research, collections and exhibitions. We're excited to present this new aspect of our 55 years as the largest museum education program in the world—and to have you be an important part of our future growth.

Explore all our offerings in this month's digital program guide.

A Celebration of French Music
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET
The History of Western Architecture
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. ET
Magna Carta: A Blueprint for Democracy
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
Masterworks by Cézanne at the Barnes Foundation
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
Thomas Gainsborough: Beyond the Blue Boy
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
True Tales from the Life of Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
“See You in Orbit?”: A History of Space Tourism
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
An Anatomy of Addiction
Monday, March 27, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Sears Houses of Arlington
Monday, March 27, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Barbra Streisand: She’s All That
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
A Journey Through the Potomac Gorge
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
An Enemy of the People? Niccolò Machiavelli in Context
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
Black Holes 101
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
J.M.W. Turner and the Art of the Sublime
Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
Assateague: A Natural History Primer
Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
From Towers to Palaces: An Architectural Tour of Medieval Florence
Friday, March 31, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
Wonder Tales from Japan
Monday, April 3, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Spring's Awakening: A Reflective Writing Workshop
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET
Art and Fiction
Friday, April 7, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
The Geology of Western National Parks: Zion and Bryce, Utah
Monday, April 10, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Spring's Awakening: A Reflective Writing Workshop
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET
J. Robert Oppenheimer: Genius, Tragedy, Ethics, and the First Atomic Bomb
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Understanding Your Digital Mirrorless or SLR Camera
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET
What Were They Thinking?: The Philosophies of Maimonides and Aquinas
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
Art Crimes: Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Portrait Painting in Oil and Acrylic
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Close-up on Warblers
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Introduction to American Art
Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
The Changing Face of Television: YouTube, Bingeing, Streaming, and Beyond
Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
Exploring Abstraction
Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Literature's Nobel Prize: Who won, who didn't, and why it matters
Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
The Uffizi Gallery: An Unrivaled Collection
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
Introduction to iPhone Photography
Saturday, April 15, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET
Introduction to Afghan Geometric Design
Sunday, April 16, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Artful Mind, Tranquil Mind
Monday, April 17, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET
How Culture Works: Driven by the Intersection of Peoples
Monday, April 17, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
Curating a Life: Art as Memoir
Monday, April 17, 2023 - 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Introduction to Watercolor
Monday, April 17, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Write Into Art: Creative Writing Inspired by Visual Art
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET
Botanicals in Watercolor I
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
Three Masterpieces of Etruscan Art
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
Celebrating Brahms: The Man, His Music, and His Legacy
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
Botanicals in Watercolor II
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Rasputin: The Man Who Would Not Die
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
The Sun: Front and Center
A Grand Tour of the Solar System

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. ET
Introduction to Photography
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET
More Stories from the American Songbook
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
Collage and Mixed-Media: Animals and Nature
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Collage and Mixed-Media
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Taking Better Photos
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Renaissance Cabinets of Curosity: Collecting All Sorts of Wonders
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Tapestry Weaving
Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET
Photo 101: Aspect Ratios
Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Principles of Abstraction
Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
The French Wars of Religion, 1559-1598: Reform and Conflict
Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
In a New York State of Wine
Friday, April 21, 2023 - 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Cultural Heritage Sites of India
Saturday, April 22, 2023 - 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Introduction to Lightroom
Saturday, April 22, 2023 - 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
Gyotaku: The Japanese Art of Printing with Fish
Saturday, April 22, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET
Quick-Sketch Watercolor Journaling
Saturday, April 22, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET
Wet Felting Workshop: Resist and Unite
Saturday, April 22, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Introduction to Pointed-Pen Calligraphy
Saturday, April 22, 2023 - 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Beginning Drawing
Sunday, April 23, 2023 - 10:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. ET
Introduction to Chalk Pastels
Monday, April 24, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
The Supreme Court’s Role in Our Constitutional Democracy
Monday, April 24, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
The Spanish in the American Revolution
Monday, April 24, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Discovering Türkiye
Monday, April 24, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Write Into Art: Creative Writing Inspired by Visual Art
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET
Mario Livio on What Makes Us Curious
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Drawing Light… and How the Masters Did It   
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
20th-Century Oceanic Art
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Global Vision of Art
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Spices 101: Pepper
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
Written in Fabric: Memory Messages Through Quilts
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Hill Country Cottage in Watercolor
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Gods and Mortals: A Modern Look at Ancient Greeks Myths
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Alcatraz: 250 Years on the Rock
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
The Art of Floral Design
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Introduction to Bobbin Lace
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Chasing Plants
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
Mastering Exposure
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Fabric Printing Using Natural Materials
Saturday, April 29, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET
Wirework Intensive: Creative Chains
Saturday, April 29, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Composition
Monday, May 1, 2023 - 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
The Flash Class
Monday, May 1, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Image Transfers and Altered Photos
Monday, May 1, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Private Art Collections of Rome, Part 1
Monday, May 1, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
The Geology of Western National Parks: Valles Caldera, New Mexico
Monday, May 1, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Write Into Art: Creative Writing Inspired by Visual Art
Tuesday, May 2, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET
Washington's Marvelous Mosaics
Tuesday, May 2, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. ET
More Stories from the American Songbook
Wednesday, May 3, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
Moviegoing in America: From Nickelodeons to Movie Palaces to IMAX to Streaming
Wednesday, May 3, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
A Bitter Defeat: The 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville
Wednesday, May 3, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Adult Art Camp: Working in Two Dimensions
Thursday, May 4, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Keeping the Pace: The Science of Pacemakers and Defibrillators
Thursday, May 4, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Let's Tell Our Tales: Personal Storybooks
Friday, May 5, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Drawing with Silverpoint
Friday, May 5, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Wet Felting Workshop: Small Vessels with Fitted Stoppers
Saturday, May 6, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Visual Journaling: Creativity Intensive
Saturday, May 6, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Re-examining a Moment of Extreme Danger
Monday, May 8, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Kandinsky: Abstraction's Architect
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Mercury: Small but Mighty Interesting
A Grand Tour of the Solar System

Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. ET
Slow Shutter-Speed Photography
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Virgil’s Aeneid: An Inside Look into Ancient Rome’s Greatest Epic Poem
Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo: Contrasts in Greatness
Saturday, May 13, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Introduction to iPhone Photography
Saturday, May 13, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET
Visual Journaling: Creativity Workout
Saturday, May 13, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Creative Mind Mapping
Monday, May 15, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
Notes on Complexity: Connection, Consciousness, and Being
Monday, May 15, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
The Physiologus: A Book of Nature and Fantasy
Monday, May 15, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Art and Beauty in Siena
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
Global Geopolitical Organization: The View from Ground Level
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
Robinson Crusoe: The Classic Castaway
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
How Catholic Art Saved the Faith
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
More Stories from the American Songbook
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET
Jazz and Blues on Film
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Great Castles of Great Britain: From William the Conqueror to Elizabeth I
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. ET
German Expressionism
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET
Wein-derlust: Exploring Austrian Wine
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
George Gershwin: Our Love Is Here to Stay
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Summer Orchid Care
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
The Mosque: Linking Religious and Architectural Traditions
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Music Inspired by the Natural World
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET
The Art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Outdoors, Outsized, and Out of the Ordinary
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
The Photo Essay
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Drawing Light… and How the Masters Did It – In Color
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
A Journey through Ancient China
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Bob Dylan and American Memory
Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
The Perils of Polarization: A History of a Nation Divided
Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Venus, Shrouded in Mystery
A Grand Tour of the Solar System

Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. ET
Build Your Photographic Portfolio
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
A Journey through Ancient China
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Photographing Industrial Items
Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
Colonial India’s Complex History
Friday, June 2, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
Jane Austen: Forever Fascinating
Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Surrealism: Hands-On History of Photography
Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET
Creating with Pressed Botanicals
Monday, June 5, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Hokusai’s Career in Prints
Monday, June 5, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
The Geology of Western National Parks: Death Valley, California
Monday, June 5, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Circular Weaving
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 - 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
A Journey through Ancient China
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Renoir: The Gift of Joy
Thursday, June 8, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
Understanding Modern Art
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
How Disney Conquered the Entertainment Universe
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET
Quakers and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
A Journey through Ancient China
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Soldiers and Dioramas: WWII Omaha Beach, 1944
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Mastering the Masters
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Gender, Sexuality, and the Fairy Tale
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET
Lady Jane Grey: First Tudor Queen or Royal Traitor?
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Deutschland Entkorkt: Uncorking Germany’s Best
Friday, June 23, 2023 - 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Conservation Heroes
Monday, June 26, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Soldiers and Dioramas: WWII Stalingrad, 1942–1943
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Underwater Worlds
Monday, July 3, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Space Station Smithsonian
Monday, July 10, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Soldiers and Dioramas: The Mongol Invasion of Japan, 1281
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Timeline Travelers
Monday, July 17, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Soldiers and Dioramas: Tet Offensive, Hue and Lang Vei, 1968
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Innovative Art
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET
Exploring Ancient Anatolia: A Turkish Odyssey
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET