Exhibitions

The Long Fall: A Descent into the Ocean’s Living Memory, Jiabao Li, Manu Prakash, Will Tallent, Michael Bruner

The exhibition is only viewable during NAS Building tours and select special events. Plankton, the microscopic drifters of the sea, are among the quiet architects of Earth’s climate. Invisible to…

Jamey Stillings: ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High Desert of Chile

The exhibition is only viewable during NAS Building tours and select special events. ATACAMA by photographer Jamey Stillings examines the relationship between renewable energy development and mineral extraction in Chile’s…

Science and the American Experiment: 250 Years of Innovation

The exhibition is only viewable during NAS Building tours and select special events. For 250 years, science, engineering, and medicine have helped the United States grow, heal, connect, and explore.…

Symmetries & Broken Symmetries: Shanthi Chandrasekar and Michael Albrow

The exhibition is viewable during NAS Building tours and select special events. This exhibition brings together the work of artist Shanthi Chandrasekar and physicist-writer Michael Albrow in a shared exploration…

The Eureka Moment: Unveiling Metaphors of Discovery

The exhibition is only viewable during NAS Building tours and select special events. “One does not photograph something simply for ‘what it is’, but ‘for what else it is.’” –…

Lia Halloran: Warped Side

Artist Lia Halloran spent 13 years creating over 650 paintings for the book The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves,…

Imo Nse Imeh: Monuments to Our Skies

This exhibition by Massachusetts-based artist Imo Nse Imeh features 12 paintings from 2019 to the present, exploring mental health, faith, and divinity within the Black community. Key highlights include the…

Xavier Cortada: Climate Science Art

This exhibition features Miami-based artist Xavier Cortada’s climate change-focused artwork from Miami-Dade County, Florida, and the North and South Pole, spanning 2007 to the present. Cortada initiated The Underwater, a…

NAS Building Timeline and Promethean Sparks

The exhibition is only viewable during NAS Building tours and select special events. “We call it the building for the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council, but…

Julia Pollack: Collaborative Ecologies

Julia Pollack is curator and creator at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign where she creates artwork based upon her conversations…