This month in the area’s museums: 40 artists under 40, saving a baby rhinoceros, Mars Day, wax presidents, and free admission to the Newseum (for anyone who’s under 18, that is).

Juliette Gordon Low, Marilyn Monroe, Annie Leibovitz and Gertrude Stein are found in this month’s museum openings and happenings.

Things that go bump in the night, gross facts, moon rocks and Degas fill this month’s museums.

Several of the area’s museums ring in the month of April with exhibits highlighting the color green, the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and naval aviation.

Image by Walter Meayers Edwards. Courtesy Kodachrome Culture from the National Geographic Museum >> The Phillips Collection opens Paint Made Flesh June 20. This survey of figurative painting since the 1950s brings together 43 provocative works from private collections and museums around the world. The exhibit includes work by Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, Alice Neal, Lucian Freud, Eric Fischl, and Julian Schnabel. $12. >> During the post-World War II boom years,…

Center Diamond, circa 1920-1940, maker unknown. Probably made in Lancaster County, PA. International Quilt Study Center & Museum, 2003.003.0071. The area’s museums offer up plenty of ways to celebrate the Easter holiday, Earth Day and National Jazz Month. >> The National Museum of African Art opened Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and its Diasporas on Wednesday. The exhibition explores the visual cultures and histories of Mami Wata, examining the world of…

Photograph of Galen Clark in front of “Grizzly Giant,” a massive sequoia tree, Mariposa Grove, CA, from the “BIG!” exhibit. The area’s museums take March by the tail and offer up some celebrations, comics, costumes and cheese. Yup, cheese. >> The National Archives turns 75 this month, and celebrates by opening their exhibition, BIG!. Marvel at the 13-foot scroll of the Articles of Confederation (never before displayed unrolled) and a 13-by-13-foot map of the…

Addison N. Scurlock at work making a portrait in his studio, 900 U St. N.W. Wash. D.C. [photoprint], courtesy of the National Museum of American History. It’s Black History Month, and plenty of our museums are celebrating with a variety of activities for young and old. Lincoln-lovers also have it made, as this month marks the 200th birthday of America’s 16th president, and the city’s museums and cultural centers have seized the opportunity to…