At the Hirshhorn Museum

 

The Hirshhorn Museum on the National Mall houses a collection of modern art and its current main exhibition is very popular - Infinity Mirrors by Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist.  This work 'Pumpkin' represents a favourite subject of this artist.

The exhibition is free but so popular that timed passes are issued at the start of each week.  Large groups of people were queuing for their timed entry under the enormous circular building.

 

Each year at this time the Smithsonian Museums, in conjunction with the US National Botanic Garden. Hold an orchid exhibition.  This year it is at the Hirshhorn Museum and is very simply presented as a collection of some of the 8,000 plants owned by the Botanic Garden on simple white shelves.

 

There were, of course, some spectacular blooms, showing the variety of size, colour and types of orchid.