Other Special Collections Libraries

The libraries listed below are those that have significant special collections. Please contact each library individually for specific information and to make an appointment. Special collections records can be searched using the library's catalog, SIRIS.
American Art Museum-National Portrait Gallery Librar

American Art and Portrait Gallery Library

The AA/PG Library is the leading destination for study in American art and portraiture, and includes strong holdings in American and European art, American history and biography, and American crafts.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library

The major resource in the United States for books, trade catalogs, serials, pictures, and archival material covering design and decorative art from the Renaissance to the present.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library

A research collection devoted to modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photography, video, film and emerging art forms.

National Air and Space Museum Library

National Air and Space Museum Library

A premier aviation and aerospace history collection, the library supports research by the Museum’s curatorial staff and aviation researchers around the world

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library

National Museum of Asian Art Library

With more than one hundred thousand volumes, the National Museum of Asian Art Library is one of the finest repositories of Asian art resources in the United States.

Crop of a zoom-in of a 10-cent postage stamp honoring Booker T Washington

National Postal Museum Library

Contains more than 40,000 books, journals, catalogs, and documents, and is among the world's largest postal history and philatelic research facilities.

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Library

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Library

Supporting the research, publications, academic and public programs, and exhibits of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, as well as biological research in Panamá and across Central America.

Dennis Redmoon

Vine Deloria, Jr. Library, National Museum of the American Indian

The Deloria Library supports the National Museum of the American Indian Museum, the Cultural Resources Center, and the George G. Heye Center in New York City.