General Motors Building, New York World’s Fair, 1940. Courtesy Albert Kahn Family of Companies. National Building Museum.

October is National Arts and Humanities Month: what better way to celebrate than by visiting one of the many museum exhibits and displays opening this month. Read on to fill your calendar.

>> Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color opens at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. This retrospective of Jones’ work looks at the travels that brought her from the U.S. to France, Haiti and Africa, and influenced her brilliantly colored paintings, sketches and textiles. Opening October 9.

>> The murder, the car case and the subsequent trial involving O.J. Simpson captivated our attention in the mid 90s. Now on display at The Newseum is the suit Simpson wore on the day he was acquitted of murder. The suit and other artifacts from the trial went on display in the New History Gallery, October 1.

>> In the early part of the twentieth century, the country was fascinated by world fairs, and architects took advantage of the scene to showcase innovative modern design. At the National Building Museum, see nearly 200 never-before-assembled artifacts from this era, including building models, architectural remnants, drawings, paintings, prints, furniture, an original RCA TRK-12 television, Elektro the Moto-Man robot and period film footage. Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s opened October 2.

>> The National Portrait Gallery opens three exhibits this month exploring the rise of a superstar, sexuality and gender in portraiture and the life of a publisher. One Life: Katharine Graham opened October 1. Elvis at 21: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer opens October 23, and Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture opens October 30.