Niagara Falls: Mist and Majesty

National Gallery of Art

May 2–September 20, 2026

Niagara Falls: Mist and Majesty probes the layered histories of Niagara Falls from the early 19th century to today. Indigenous peoples have long made spiritual and territorial claims over the falls as a sacred site or a homeland and from the 1600s, the land around the falls belonged to the Seneca of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. After Europeans arrived, they too recognized the majesty of the falls and soon embraced it as a powerful symbol of the newly formed nation, the United States of America. Beginning in the 1840s thousands of enslaved people crossed the Niagara River north to their freedom. Over time, generations of preservationists, artists, tourists, honeymooners, daredevils, and profiteers have frequented the falls, which today continue to inspire awe and wonder.

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