TEXAS: SITES’ NASA/Art exhibition opens at the Irving Arts Center, Irving, 9/5. 

FLORIDA: Lonnie Bunch, director of the NMAAHC, speaks at the opening of The Kinsey Collection exhibition at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science in Tallahassee, 9/10.

GEORGIA: Affiliation announcement at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, 9/12.

MARYLAND:  Curator Marquette Folley talks about SITES’ 381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Story at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, 9/12.  Also on view: NMAAHC’s painting, “Walking.” 

WASHINGTON D.C.: Early registration deadline for the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center seminar, “Learning Through Objects, Museums and Young Children” in Washington, October 28-29.  Affiliates get 20% off registration by 9/18. 

OHIO:   SITES’ Becoming American: Teenagers and Immigration opens at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, 9/19. 

NEW YORK: “Seated Ajita,” a scuplture on loan from the Sackler goes on view at the Rubin Museum of Art in The Victorious Ones: Jain Images of Perfection, 9/18. 

PENNSYLVANIA:  NPG curator Frank Goodyear speaks on “Abraham Lincoln in Historic Photographs” at the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, 9/26. 

At an Affiliate Near You:

Over 100 Affiliates celebrate Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day, 9/26.