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Museum exhibits and programs address standards for unifying concepts and processes strands and inquiry.

Process Standards: Museum exhibits and programs address the history process standards of chronological thinking, historical comprehension, historical analysis, and interpretation, historical research capabilities, and historical issues.
Visual Arts Standards
Media, Techniques, and Processes
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery • Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and Himalayas
• James McNeil Whistler and Galleries of American Art
• The Arts of China
• Arts of the Islamic World
• The Arts of Japan
• Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires
 
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden • Rotating Museum Collections
National Museum of African Art • Art of the Personal Object
National Museum of Natural History • African Voices
 
Renwick Gallery • Renwick Icons
• George Catlin's Indian Gallery
Structures and Forms
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery • Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and Himalayas
• James McNeil Whistler and Galleries of American Art
• The Arts of China
• Arts of the Islamic World
• The Arts of Japan
• Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires
 
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden • Rotating Museum Collections
National Museum of African Art • Art of the Personal Object
National Museum of the American Indian • Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World
National Museum of Natural History

• Western Cultures
• African Voices

 
Renwick Gallery • Renwick Icons
• George Catlin's Indian Gallery
Subject Matter, Symbols, and Ideas
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery • Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and Himalayas
• James McNeil Whistler and Galleries of American Art
• The Arts of China
• Arts of the Islamic World
• The Arts of Japan
• Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires
 
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden • Rotating Museum Collections
National Museum of African Art • Art of the Personal Object
National Museum of the American Indian

• Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories
• Our Lives: Contemporary Life and Identities
• Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World

National Museum of Natural History

• Western Cultures
• African Voices

 
National Postal Museum • Philatelic Gallery  
Renwick Gallery • Renwick Icons
• George Catlin's Indian Gallery
Visual Arts in Relation to Cultures and History
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery • Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and Himalayas
• James McNeil Whistler and Galleries of American Art
• The Arts of China
• Arts of the Islamic World
• The Arts of Japan
• Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires
 
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden • Rotating Museum Collections
National Museum of African Art • Art of the Personal Object
National Museum of the American Indian

• Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories
• Our Lives: Contemporary Life and Identities
• Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World

National Museum of Natural History

• Western Cultures
• African Voices

 
National Postal Museum • Philatelic Gallery  
Renwick Gallery • Renwick Icons
• George Catlin's Indian Gallery
Assessing Characteristics and Merits of Art Work
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery • Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and Himalayas
• James McNeil Whistler and Galleries of American Art
• The Arts of China
• Arts of the Islamic World
• The Arts of Japan
• Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires
 
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden • Rotating Museum Collections
National Museum of African Art • Art of the Personal Object
National Museum of the American Indian

• Our Lives: Contemporary Life and Identities
• Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World

National Museum of Natural History

• Western Cultures

 
Renwick Gallery • Renwick Icons
• George Catlin's Indian Gallery
Connections between Visual Arts and other desciplines
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery • Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and Himalayas
• James McNeil Whistler and Galleries of American Art
• The Arts of China
• Arts of the Islamic World
• The Arts of Japan
• Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires
 
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden • Rotating Museum Collections
National Museum of Natural History

• Western Cultures
• African Voices

 
National Postal Museum • Artistic License--The Duck Stamp Story  
Renwick Gallery • George Catlin's Indian Gallery

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