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Springfest // Ocean City. Visitors can enjoy live music and entertainment, arts and crafts, food and more at this annual event concluding today on the Inlet Lot at the south end of the Boardwalk. A performance of Sir Rod's tribute to Rod Stewart is at 5 p.m. today. Free parking at the West Ocean City Park. Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Admission to the festival is free. 410-250-0125 or ococean.com.
Wings of Fancy // Wheaton. Learn about Asian, Costa Rican and North American butterfly species and nectar plants at this live indoor butterfly show. Continues through Sept. 21 at Brookside Gardens, 1800 Glenallan Ave. Hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. Admission is $4-$5. 301-962-1453 or brooksidegardens.org.
"Battlefield Surgery 101: From the Civil War to Vietnam" // Exhibit highlights the evolution of military surgical activities over the past 140 years. Running indefinitely at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, 6900 Georgia Ave. N.W. Hours are 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. daily. Free. 202-782-2200.
"Vietnamese Ceramics from the Red River Delta" // Exhibit includes dishes, jars, boxes and bowls that were produced in this region between the 13th and 16th centuries. Running indefinitely at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, 1050 Independence Ave. S.W. Hours are 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. daily. Free admission. 202-633-1000.
"Sealed in Glass, Stone and Tin" // Dover. Exhibit featuring a variety of 19th- and 20th-century containers, including medicine bottles, stoneware jars and items from Delaware's canning industry, is on display through Dec. 31 at the Museum of Small Town Life, 316 S. Governors Ave. Hours are 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays and 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Sundays. Admission is free. 302-736-7400.
"Frida Kahlo" // Philadelphia. Exhibition includes more than 40 of the artist's self-portraits, portraits and symbolic and still-life paintings. Through May 18 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street. Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays; 10 a.m.-8:45 p.m. Fridays; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Admission is $10-$20. 215-763-8100 or phila museum.org.
"The Greatest Bird Artists: John James Audubon and Earl Poole" // Reading. Exhibit includes work from the Reading Public Museum's permanent collection and is part of a joint project titled "Wings of Spring: A Celebration of Our Natural World." Through July 6 at the museum, 500 Museum Road. Hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays and Saturdays; 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Fridays; noon-5 p.m. Sundays. Admission is $5-$7. 610-371-5850.
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