Day of the Dead/Día de los Muertos

Bring the whole family to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian for a day of remembering featuring traditional dances by New York-based Aztec dance group Cetiliztli Nauhcampa around the community ofrenda (altar) to honor ancestors. Activities include crafting a paper marigold, making papel picado—“perforated paper,” a traditional Mexican folk art made by cutting intricate designs into tissue paper—and writing a note to a loved one who has passed.