Exhibitions

Current

  • Installation view of Treaties on De-Fences exhibition by Jorge Otero-Pailos at National Museum of American Diplomacy, 2024 (c) Otero-Pailos Studio

    Treaties on De-Fences by Jorge Otero-Pailos

    On view through June 13, 2026

    Onera Foundation’s inaugural exhibition Treaties on De-Fences by Jorge Otero-Pailos, explores the preservation of the Eero Saarinen-designed Cold War-era US Embassy in Oslo, Norway.

    Curated and produced by the Onera Foundation in close coordination with Otero-Pailos Studio and the National Museum of American Diplomacy, Treaties on De-Fences spans five galleries across the first two floors of 63 Park Street.

  • The Cold War-Era US Embassy Program & Modern New Canaan

    The Cold War-Era US Embassy Program & Modern New Canaan

    On view through June 13, 2026

    This exhibition highlights the midcentury embassies built in The Hague and in Dublin by architects Marcel Breuer and John Johansen respectively.

    The exhibition examines how the architects’ early experimentations in domestic architecture informed and inspired the modern language they later brought to their embassies. 

Forthcoming

  • Image caption and credits: Ellsworth Kelly’s Beijing Panels installed at the US Embassy in Beijing, China, July 4, 2011 ; Photo © Jack Shear

    AMERICA ABROAD: Art, Architecture, and Diplomacy - Works from the FAPE Collection

    On view July 1, 2026 – December 31, 2026

    The exhibition offers rare public access to artworks typically seen only at US embassies—spaces not generally open to the public—and explores how art and architecture have shaped the United States’ diplomatic presence abroad from the Cold War to today.

    Image credit: Ed Ruscha, Column with Speed Lines, 2003