At one with Rothko 🙏🏽 There isn’t anything quite like the experience of standing in front of a Mark Rothko painting and feeling just what the artist intended you to feel.

🖼 Mark Rothko, “Untitled,” 1956, pigmented hide glue, oil, and acrylic on canvas, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

One of the sweetest moments we’ve ever seen in front of an arachnid🥺 Yesterday in the Garden🖤

Today, we're taking a cue from artist Alma Thomas, who always made time to stop and smell the roses. She taught us that life itself is a work of art. That #EverythingIsBeautiful In honor of Alma, share a photo of something that fills your life with beauty using the hashtag #EverythingIsBeautiful 📷✨

@NMNH — where do you find beauty in your everyday?

On #MemorialDay, we honor the lives of soldiers who have died while serving in the US Armed Forces. Today, we will remember them with a look at Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s “Shaw Memorial” (1900). #MuseumFromHome

Read more about the Memorial: go.usa.gov/xwaR3 The memorial commemorates the valiant efforts of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the men of the 54th Massachusetts, the first Civil War regiment of African Americans enlisted in the North.

The version in Boston Common was dedicated as a monument on Decoration Day on May 31, 1897.

Welcome to the East Building’s gallery 406B, focused on art of the 1960s. Our tour today will focus on three women artists represented in this room. #MuseumFromHome

See all of the works: go.usa.gov/xwqxM ICYMI, last week we toured the neighboring gallery 406A:

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Today’s tour takes us to gallery 35 on the Main Floor of the West Building, devoted to our collection of 15th- and 16th-century German paintings.

See a list of all the works included: go.usa.gov/xvq7t The gallery includes examples by some of the most important Northern Renaissance artists including Lucas Cranach the Elder, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Younger, and Bernhard Strigel.