"Special Olympics at 50" is now on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington. (Jaclyn Nash/National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution)

The Smithsonian recently introduced a new exhibit, “Special Olympics at 50,” to celebrate the organization’s anniversary and to highlight the roles athletes with intellectual disabilities have played in changing perceptions of the disability community. The Special Olympics display will be on view through June 2019 at the National Museum of American History, in Washington, D.C.