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Board of Regents: The Chief Justice of the WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST () The Vice President of the United States AL GORE Members of the Senate THAD COCHRAN, WILLIAM FRIST,D ANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN Members of the House of Representatives SAMUEL JOHNSON, ROBERT LIVINGSTON, ESTEBAN E. TORRES Citizen Members HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., BARBER B. CONABLE, LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR., ,A NNE D’HARNONCOURT, MANUEL L. IBAN˜ EZ, HOMER A. NEAL,F RANK A. SHRONTZ,W ESLEY SAMUEL WILLIAMS, JR. Officials: The Secretary I. MICHAEL HEYMAN The Inspector General THOMAS D. BLAIR Director, Office of Planning, Management L. CAROLE WHARTON and Budget Counselor to the Secretary for Biodiversity THOMAS E. LOVEJOY and Environmental Affairs Counselor to the Secretary for Electronic MARC PACHTER Communications and Special Projects Counselor to the Secretary for Community MIGUEL BRETOS Affairs and Special Projects Executive Assistant to the Secretary JAMES M. HOBBINS Executive Secretary to the Secretary BARBARA CEDERBORG Under Secretary CONSTANCE NEWMAN General Counsel JOHN E. HUERTA Director, Office of Government Relations M. JOHN BERRY Director, Office of Communications DAVID J. UMANSKY Director, Office of Information Technology VINCENT MARCALUS Senior Information Officer ARTHUR LEE DENNY Senior Business Officer ROLAND BANSCHER, Acting Ombudsman CHANDRA HEILMAN Director, Office of Membership and MARIE MATTSON Development QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 717

Director, Office of Special Events and NICOLE L. KRAKORA Conference Services Chief Financial Officer RICK JOHNSON Director, Office of Sponsored Projects ARDELLE FOSS Director, Office of Equal Employment and ERA MARSHALL Minority Affairs Director, Office of Human Resources CAROLYN JONES Director, Office of Printing and Photographic JAMES H. WALLACE, JR. Services Director, Office of Contracting and Property JOHN W. COBERT Management Director, Office of Physical Plant PATRICK J. MILLER Director, Office of Protection Services DAVID F. MORRELL Director, Office of Environmental WILLIAM F. BILLINGSLEY Management and Safety Treasurer SUDEEP ANAND Comptroller M. LESLIE CASSON Provost J. DENNIS O’CONNOR Director, STEVEN NEWSOME Director, Archives of American RICHARD WATTENMAKER Director, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design DIANNE PILGRIM Museum Director, and Arthur M. MILO C. BEACH Sackler Gallery Director, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture JAMES T. DEMETRION Garden Director, National Air and Space Museum DONALD D. ENGEN Director, National Museum of African Art ROSLYN A. WALKER Director, National Museum of ELIZABETH BROUN Curator in Charge, KENNETH R. TRAPP Director, National Museum of American SPENCER CREW History Director, National Museum of the American W. RICHARD WEST, JR. Indian Director, National Campaign for NMAI JOHN L. COLONGHI Director, National Museum of Natural ROBERT W. FRI History Director, National Portrait Gallery ALAN M. FERN Director, JAMES BRUNS Director, National Zoological Park MICHAEL ROBINSON Director, Office of Exhibits Central MICHAEL HEADLEY Director, Center for Museum Studies REX ELLIS Director, Traveling ANNA R. COHN Exhibition Service Director, Institutional Studies Office ZAHAVA DOERING Editor, Papers Project MARC ROTHENBERG Director, Office of Fellowships and Grants ROBERTA RUBINOFF Director, Smithsonian Environmental DAVID L. CORRELL Research Center Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical IRWIN I. SHAPIRO Observatory Director, Smithsonian Tropical Research IRA RUBINOFF Institute Director, Conservation Analytical Laboratory LAMBERTUS VAN ZELST Director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries BARBARA SMITH 718 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

Director, Museum Support Center U. VINCENT WILCOX III Director, Smithsonian Institution Archives ETHEL W. HEDLIN Director, Smithsonian Office of Education ANN BAY Director, Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies Director, National Science Resources Center DOUGLAS LAPP Director, Wider Audience Development MARSHALL WONG Program Director, Office of International Center FRANCINE BERKOWITZ Director, Smithsonian Press/Smithsonian DANIEL GOODWIN Productions Editor, Smithsonian Magazine DON MOSER Publisher, Smithsonian Magazine RONALD WALKER Director, The Smithsonian Associates MARA MAYOR The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing 1 Chairman JAMES A. JOHNSON President LAWRENCE J. WILKER 1 President ROBERT H. SMITH Director EARL A. POWELL III Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1 Director CHARLES BLITZER Deputy Director SAMUEL WELLS Deputy Director for Planning and DEAN W. ANDERSON Management Chairman, Board of Trustees JOSEPH H. FLOM

One hundred fifty years old, the Smithsonian Institution is an independent trust instrumentality of the United States that fosters the increase and diffusion of knowledge. The world’s largest museum complex, the Smithsonian includes 16 and galleries, the National Zoo, and research facilities in several States and the Republic of . The Smithsonian holds more than 140 million artifacts and specimens in its trust for the American people. The Institution, a respected center for research, is dedicated to public education, national service, and scholarship in the arts, sciences, and history.

The Smithsonian Institution was created In September 1838, Smithson’s legacy, by act of , 1846 (20 U.S.C. 41 which amounted to more than 100,000 et seq.), to carry out the terms of the will gold sovereigns, was delivered to the of British scientist , who mint at Philadelphia. Congress vested in 1826 had bequeathed his entire estate responsibility for administering the trust to the United States ‘‘to found at in the Smithsonian Board of Regents, Washington, under the name of the composed of the Chief Justice, the Vice Smithsonian Institution, an establishment President, three Members of the Senate, for the increase and diffusion of three Members of the House of knowledge among men.’’ On July 1, Representatives, and nine citizen 1836, Congress accepted the legacy and members appointed by joint resolution pledged the faith of the United States to of Congress. the charitable trust.

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THE SECRETARY UNDER SEPARATE BOARDS OF TRUSTEES: JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS PLANNING, NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART INSPECTOR GENERAL SECRETARIAT MANAGEMENT, WOODROW WILSON AND BUDGET INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS

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COMPTROLLER SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE MEMBERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENTANACOSTIA MUSEUM CENTER FOR MUSEUM STUDIES CONTRACTING AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES ARTHUR M. SACKLER GALLERY/ FREER GALLERY OF ART SPECIAL EVENTS AND CONFERENCE SERVICES EXHIBITS CENTRAL RISK AND ASSET MANAGEMENT FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS SMITHSONIAN BUSINESSES CENTER FOR FOLKLIFE PROGRAMSINTERNATIONAL AND CULTURAL RELATIONS STUDIES SPONSORED PROJECTS NATIONAL SCIENCE RESOURCES CENTER —RETAIL ADMINISTRATION —CONCESSIONS CONSERVATION ANALYTICAL LABORATORYSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ARCHIVES EQUAL EMPLOYMENT AND MINORITY—PRODUCT AFFAIRS DEVELOPMENT AND LICENSING COOPER-HEWITT, NATIONAL DESIGNSMITHSONIAN MUSEUM INSTITUTION LIBRARIES HUMAN RESOURCES —SMITHSONIAN PRESS/PRODUCTIONS OMBUDSMAN HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURESMITHSONIAN GARDEN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE FACILITIES NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND SAFETY SMITHSONIAN OFFICE OF EDUCATION NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART

PHYSICAL PLANT NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICANOTHER ART SUPPORT —RENWICK SERVICES: GALLERY PROTECTION SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY PROGRAM INSTITUTIONAL STUDIES ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ INFORMATION NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC DIVING PROGRAM ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ TECHNOLOGY HISTORY IMAGING, PRINTING, AND PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES —NATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

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To carry out Smithson’s mandate, the museums, and art societies. These papers Institution: consist of manuscripts, letters, —performs research; notebooks, sketchbooks, business —publishes the results of studies, records, clippings, exhibition catalogs, explorations, and investigations; tape-recorded interviews, and —preserves for study and reference photographs of artists and their work. more than 140 million objects, works of art, and scientific specimens; The Archives’ chief processing and —maintains exhibits representative of reference center is in the historic Old the arts, the sciences, and American Patent Office Building in Washington, history and culture; and DC. The Archives has regional centers in —engages in programs of education California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and and national and international . cooperative research supported by its trust endowments; gifts, grants, and For further information, contact the Archives of contracts; and funds appropriated to it American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, by Congress. DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2781. Conservation Analytical Laboratory Activities The Laboratory is a Smithsonian research Anacostia Museum The Museum, institute with a focus on the located in the historic Fort Stanton preservation, conservation, and technical neighborhood of southeast Washington, study and analysis of collection is undergoing renovations this year. It materials, with a special emphasis on serves as a national resource for materials in the national collections. Its exhibitions, scholarly and applied researchers investigate the chemical and research, historical documentation, and physical processes that are involved in interpretive and educational programs the deterioration of museum objects and relating to African-American history and specimens, and attempt to formulate culture. The African-American church, conditions and procedures for storage, the Harlem Renaissance, and the art and exhibit, and stabilization that optimize activism of artist/educator Georgette the preservation of these materials. In Powell have been the subjects of interdisciplinary collaborations with exhibitions produced by the Museum. archaeologists, anthropologists, and art Administratively connected to the historians, natural and physical scientists Anacostia Museum, the Smithsonian’s study and analyze objects from the Center for African American History and collections and related materials to Culture mounts exhibitions such as ‘‘Jazz expand our knowledge and Age in ,’’ a SITES exhibition that premiered at the Center; sponsors public understanding of their historical and programs; and collects material scientific context. Many of the research representative of the black experience in projects involve close collaboration with performing arts, literature, and fine arts. outside scholars and other Government and academic laboratories. The For further information, contact the Anacostia Laboratory also provides active Museum, 1901 Fort Place SE., Washington, DC 20020. Phone, 202–357–2700. analytical and technical support to conservation and curation efforts in the Archives of American Art The Archives various museums within and contains the Nation’s largest collection occasionally outside the Smithsonian. of documentary materials reflecting the The Laboratory’s education program history of visual arts in the United States. On the subject of art in America, it is the offers a wide range of training largest archives in the world, holding opportunities, within the areas of its more than 13 million documents. The specialty, to professionals in Archives gathers, preserves, and conservation and related museum microfilms the papers of artists, disciplines. Its outreach program craftsmen, collectors, dealers, critics, includes students at institutes of QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 721 secondary and higher education and the the collection and lectures in general public. their fields of specialization.

For further information, contact the Conservation For further information, contact the Freer Gallery Analytical Laboratory, Museum Support Center, of Art, Jefferson Drive at Twelfth Street SW., 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20560. Phone, Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. 301–238–3700. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Garden The Museum houses major Museum The Museum, located in New collections of modern and contemporary York City, is the only museum in the art. The nucleus of the collection is the country devoted exclusively to historical gift and bequest of more than 13,000 and contemporary design. Collections works of art for the people of the United include nearly 250,000 objects in such States from Joseph H. Hirshhorn (1899– areas as applied arts and industrial 1981). design, drawings and prints, Supplementing the permanent wallcoverings, and textiles. A major collection, which keeps up with current renovation, to be completed in the fall of developments through an active 1997, will add a new two-story connecting structure linking the museum acquisitions program, are loan with its garden and with two townhouses exhibitions focusing on emerging currently known as the Design Resource contemporary artists as well as on art Center. Changing exhibitions and public movements of the modern era. There is programs seek to educate by exploring an active program of public service and the role of design in daily life. The education, including docent tours, Museum is open daily except Mondays lectures on contemporary art and artists, and holidays. Admission is charged. and films of historic and artistic interest. The Museum houses a collection For further information, contact the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2 East Ninety-First Street, research facility, a specialized art library, New York, NY 10028. Phone, 212–860–6868. and a photographic archive, available for consultation by prior appointment. Freer Gallery of Art The building, the original collection, and an endowment For further information, contact the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Seventh Street and were the gift of Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20560. (1854–1919). The Gallery houses one of Phone, 202–357–2700. the world’s most renowned collections of Asian art as well as an important National Air and Space Museum group of ancient Egyptian glass, early Created to memorialize the development Christian manuscripts, and works by of aviation and space flight, the Museum James McNeill Whistler together with collects, displays, and preserves other 19th and early 20th century aeronautical and space flight artifacts of American artists. historical significance as well as documentary and artistic materials More than 27,000 objects in the Asian related to air and space. The exhibitions collection represent the arts of East Asia, and study collections record human the Near East, and South and Southeast conquest of the air from its tentative Asia, including paintings, manuscripts, beginnings to recent achievements by scrolls, screens, ceramics, metalwork, high altitude aircraft, guided missiles, glass, jade, lacquer, and sculpture. rockets, satellites, and manned space Members of the staff conduct research flight. The principal areas in which work on objects in the collection and publish is concentrated include flight craft of all results in scholarly journals and books types, manned and unmanned; space for general and specialist audiences. flight vehicles; and propulsion systems. They arrange thematic exhibitions from 722 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

The Langley Theater, with a giant A major center for research in screen presentation, and the 70-foot American art, the Museum has domed Einstein Planetarium are featured. contributed to such resources as the For further information, contact the National Air Inventory of American Paintings and Space Museum, Sixth Street and Independence Executed Before 1914, with data on Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– nearly 260,000 works; the Peter A. Juley 357–2700. & Sons collection of 127,000 historical National Museum of African Art This photographs; the Slide and Photographic is the only in the United Archives; the Smithsonian Art Index; the States dedicated exclusively to portraying Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index; the rich, creative visual traditions of the Inventory of American Sculpture, Africa. with information on more than 50,000 Established in 1964 and incorporated indoor and outdoor works; and the as a bureau of the Smithsonian in 1979, Study Center. The library, the Museum opened at its new location shared with the National Portrait Gallery, on the in September 1987. contains volumes on art, history, and Its research components, collection, biography, with special emphasis on the exhibitions, and public programs United States. The building also houses establish the Museum as a primary the Archives of American Art, with its source for the examination and vast holdings of documentary material discovery of the arts and culture of on American art and artists. Africa. In recent years, works of The Museum makes hundreds of outstanding aesthetic quality have been images from the collection and extensive added to a collection numbering about information on its collections, 7,000 works in wood, metal, fired clay, publications, and activities available ivory, and fiber. Examples of traditional electronically to personal computer users art include a wooden figure of a Zairian (Internet, http://www.nmaa.si.edu/) and Yombe carver; a Lower Niger Bronze commercial online services. There is a Industry vessel, with chameleons; and a research program for visiting scholars, memorial figure from the Cameroon and university interns are welcomed in grassfields. many museum departments. The Eliot Elisofon Photographic The Museum’s Renwick Gallery, Archives includes some 100,000 slides, located at 17th Street and Pennsylvania photos, and film segments on Africa. Avenue NW., Washington, DC, is There is also a specialized library of dedicated to exhibiting crafts of all more than 18,000 volumes and periods and to collecting 20th century periodicals. American crafts. It offers changing exhibitions of American crafts and For further information, contact the National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue decorative arts, both historical and SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357– contemporary, and a rotating selection 2700. from its permanent collection. The National Museum of American Art The Grand Salon is elegantly furnished in the Museum’s art collection spans more than opulent style of the 1860’s and 1870’s. 250 years of American painting, For further information, contact the National sculpture, folk art, photography, and Museum of American Art, Eighth and G Streets NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357– graphic art. A flexibly structured 2700. changing selection from the permanent collection of more than 37,500 works of National Museum of American History art allows for special groupings based on In pursuit of its fundamental mission to subjects, media, and other inspire a broader understanding of the considerations. Special exhibitions are United States and its people, the presented each year on various aspects Museum provides learning opportunities, of American art, often accompanied by stimulates the imagination of visitors, publications and interactive computer and presents challenging ideas about the programs. Nation’s . The Museum’s exhibits QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 723 offer a unique view of the American —the Mall museum, which will open experience. Important elements of the in 2001 east of the National Air and collections present the European Space Museum on the National Mall’s background, but emphasis is placed last available site. Exhibits are currently upon the growth of the United States, offered in the Arts and Industries upon the men and women who have Building at 900 Jefferson Drive, shaped our heritage, upon science and Washington, DC. the arts, and upon the remaking of our The Museum, whose collections were world through technology. transferred to the Smithsonian from the Exhibits draw upon strong collections former Museum of the American Indian, in the sciences and engineering, Heye Foundation, in , is agriculture, manufacturing, an institution of living cultures dedicated transportation, medicine, printing, to the collection, preservation, study, photography, ceramics, coins, and glass. and exhibition of the life, languages, Outstanding holdings include Whitney’s literature, history, and arts of the native cotton gin, Morse’s telegraph, the John peoples of the Americas. Bull locomotive, and a great variety of Highlights include Northwest Coast scientific instruments and inventions. carvings; dance masks; pottery and Political, social, military, and cultural weaving from the Southwest; painted history are also well represented. Major hides and garments from the North installations treat everyday life in American Plains; goldwork from America just after the Revolutionary Colombia, Mexico, and Peru; and War, science in American life, and the Amazonian featherwork. diverse origins of the American people. Admission is free. For information on The Museum offers changing exhibits on hours, phone 212–825–6700 (New York a wide range of subjects including City) or 202–357–2700 (Washington, information technology, political history, DC). American music, and American cars and For further information, contact the National trains. Hands-on activities, Museum of the American Indian, Suite 7102, 470 L’Enfant Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, demonstrations, films, and performances 202–287–2523. highlight many aspects of the Museum. The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks National Museum of Natural History Orchestra is located at the Museum. This museum is dedicated to Scholars may be aided in the use of understanding the natural world and the the Museum’s research collections and place of humans in it. The Museum’s specialized library facilities by permanent exhibits focus on Earth appointment. sciences, biology, and anthropology, with the most popular displays featuring For further information, contact the National Museum of American History, Fourteenth Street gemstones such as the , and NW., Washington, DC dinosaurs, marine ecosystems, birds, and 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. mammals. Notable attractions include the O. Orkin Insect Zoo, where a variety National Museum of the American of arthropods live in realistic habitats; Indian The Museum was established by and the Discovery Room, where visitors act of November 28, 1989 (20 U.S.C. can handle specimens and artifacts. The 80q et seq.). It will be located in three Museum also hosts a variety of special facilities: exhibitions, such as ‘‘Amber: Window to —the George Gustav Heye Center, the Past.’’ located at One Bowling Green, New The public displays represent only a York City, which is currently open; small portion of the national collections —the Cultural Resources Center in housed and maintained by the Museum. Suitland, MD, which will open in the These encyclopedic collections comprise late 1990’s and house a major portion of more than 120 million specimens, the Museum’s priceless million-object making the Museum one of the world’s collection; and foremost facilities for natural history 724 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL research. Doctorate-level staff million objects. The 75,000 square-foot researchers ensure the continued growth Museum is devoted to the history of and value of the collection by America’s mail service. The major conducting studies in the field and galleries include exhibits on mail service laboratory. The Museum maintains in colonial times and during the Civil permanent research facilities in Alaska, War, the Pony Express, modern mail Florida, Belize, Guyana, and Brazil. service, automation, mail transportation, For further information, contact the National and the art of letters, as well as displays Museum of Natural History, Tenth Street and of the Museum’s priceless stamp Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20560. collection. Phone, 202–357–2700. Highlights include three mail planes, a National Portrait Gallery The Gallery replica of a railway mail car, a was established by act of April 27, 1962 mudwagon, an airmail beacon, displays (20 U.S.C. 75a), as a museum of the of letters and greeting cards, foreign and Smithsonian Institution ‘‘for the domestic mail boxes, and rare U.S. and exhibition and study of portraiture foreign issue stamps and covers. depicting men and women who have Located on next to Union made significant contributions to the Station, the Postal Museum is geared for a family audience. A state-of-the-art history, development, and culture of the museum setting offers more than 40 people of the United States.’’ It is housed videos and interactive displays, as well in one of the oldest Government as a museum shop, a stamp retail store, structures in Washington, the former and a discovery center for educational U.S. Patent Office Building. programs, lectures, and performances. The first floor of the Gallery is devoted to major loan exhibitions, changing For further information, contact the National Postal exhibitions from the Gallery’s collection Museum, 2 Massachusetts Avenue NE., Washington, of paintings, sculpture, prints, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. photographs, and drawings as well as National Zoological Park The National several galleries with special portrait Zoo encompasses 163 acres along Rock collections. On the second floor are Creek in Northwest Washington, DC. featured the permanent collection of Established in 1889, the Zoo is one of portraits of eminent Americans and the the oldest branches of the Smithsonian Hall of Presidents containing portraits Institution. The collection today and associative items of our Chief encompasses more than 5,000 animals Executives. The two-story Victorian and nearly 500 species, ranging in size Renaissance Great Hall on the third floor and diversity from leaf-cutter ants to of the gallery houses a Civil War giant pandas, elephants, and rhinos. exhibition (on the mezzanine), and is Recent exhibits include ‘‘Amazonia,’’ a used for special events and public simulated tropical forest; ‘‘Think programs. Tank,’’ an exhibit focusing on animal A large library is shared with the thinking; the ‘‘Vertebrate’’ and National Museum of American Art and the Archives of American Art. The ‘‘Pollinarium’’ exhibits; and the Reptile education department offers public Discovery Center, featuring the world’s programs; outreach programs for largest lizards, Komodo dragons. The schools, senior adults, hospitals, and Zoo’s exhibits are supported by scientific nursing homes; and walk-in and group investigations conducted at the Zoo’s tours. Department of Zoological Research. Work focusing on genetics, animal For further information, contact the National behavior, and reproductive studies has Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F Streets NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. given the National Zoo a leadership role among the Nation’s conservation National Postal Museum The Museum institutions. houses the Nation’s postal history and In addition to the animals living at its philatelic collection, the largest of its Washington facilities, the Zoo’s kind in the world, with more than 16 Conservation and Research Center QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 725 located on 3,150 acres near Front Royal, traditions in the United States and VA, houses an additional 4,500 animals, abroad. It maintains a documentary among them extremely rare species. collection and produces Smithsonian Research at the Center explores animal Folkways Recordings, educational behavior, ecology, nutrition, materials, documentary films, reproductive physiology, pathology, and publications, and traveling exhibits, as clinical medicine. The Center also well as the annual Festival of American conducts research into the long-term Folklife on the National Mall. Recent maintenance of wild animal populations Folklife Festivals have featured a range and captive-breeding of endangered of American music styles, a number of animals. It operates a training program State tributes, and performers from for wildlife professionals from other around the world. Admission to the countries, including those with festival is free. The 2-week program endangered and rare wildlife. includes Fourth of July activities. For further information, contact the National Zoo, 3000 Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, DC For further information, contact the Center for 20008. Phone, 202–673–4717. E-mail, Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, Suite 2600, [email protected]. Internet, http://www.si.edu/ 914 L’Enfant Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20560. natzoo/. Phone, 202–287–3424 or 202–357–2700. Office of Fellowships and Grants This International Center The International office develops and administers the Center supports Smithsonian activities numerous Smithsonian programs abroad and coordinates the designed to assist scholars and students Smithsonian’s international interests, from the United States and throughout particularly those that do not fall within the world in utilizing the Institution’s the scope of a single Smithsonian bureau unique resources. These academic or museum. The International Center programs, which include long- and provides a meeting place and an short-term appointments, are an organizational channel to bring together important complement to those offered the world’s scholars, museum by universities and support participants’ professionals, decisionmakers, and the research in art, history, and science. general public, to attend and participate Predoctoral, postdoctoral, and in conferences, public forums, lectures, graduate student fellowship programs performances, exhibitions, films, and provide scholars and students the workshops. Through the International opportunity to conduct research on Center, the Smithsonian seeks to independently conceived projects at encourage a broadening of public Smithsonian facilities in conjunction understanding of the histories, cultures, with the Institution’s research staff. and natural environments of regions The Office of Fellowships and Grants throughout the world. offers internships aimed at increasing minority participation in ongoing For further information, contact the Office of International Relations, MRC 705, 1100 Jefferson Smithsonian research activities and fields Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– of interest. In addition, it administers all 357–1539. internships funded by stipends. The Office also administers other research Center for Museum Studies The Center opportunity programs for many of the is an outreach office of the Smithsonian Smithsonian bureaus. that helps museums in the United States fulfill their public service mission. It For further information, contact the Office of Fellowships and Grants, Suite 7000, 902 L’Enfant conducts training programs for museum Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– professionals on museum operational 287–3271. E-mail, [email protected]. methods, management of collections, Center for Folklife Programs and exhibitions techniques, and educational Cultural Studies The Center is activities. responsible for research, documentation, The Center is also the central intern and presentation of grassroots cultural office for the Institution, registering all 726 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL interns and administering a central intern individuals and organizations associated application referral service. with the Institution or with its work. Located in the Center is the These holdings document the growth of Smithsonian Institution Libraries Museum the Smithsonian and the development of Reference Center, the Nation’s largest American science, history, and art. museological library. The Institutional History Division For further information, contact the Center for explores the history of the Smithsonian Museum Studies, 900 Jefferson Drive SW., Room by drawing upon the holdings of the 2235, MRC 427, Smithsonian Institution, Archives and by creating new historical Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–3101. records such as audio and videotaped Fax, 202–357–3346. interviews. Within the Division, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery This Asian Joseph Henry Papers publishes the art museum opened to the public correspondence and papers of the September 1987 on the National Mall. Smithsonian’s first Secretary, renowned Changing exhibitions drawn from major scientist Joseph Henry, whose collections in the United States and bicentennial is celebrated in 1997. abroad, as well as from the permanent The National Collections Program holdings of the Sackler Gallery, are assists in and monitors the development displayed in the distinctive museum. The of effective collections management Gallery’s growing permanent collection policy throughout the Institution and the is founded on a group of art objects from museum community at large. China, South and , and For further information, contact the Office of the the that was given to Smithsonian Institution Archives, 900 Jefferson the Smithsonian by Arthur M. Sackler Drive SW., MRC 414, Washington, DC 20560. (1913–1987), a medical researcher, Phone, 202–357–1420. Fax, 202–357–2395. publisher, and art collector. Dr. Sackler’s Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory gift included Chinese jades, bronzes, The Observatory is located in ancient Near Eastern ceramics, gold and Cambridge, MA, on the grounds of the silver, and sculpture from South and Harvard College Observatory. Since Southeast Asia. The collection has 1973, the observatories have expanded to include Persian coordinated research activities under a manuscripts; Japanese paintings; single director in a cooperative venture ceramics, prints, and textiles; and known as the Harvard-Smithsonian paintings and metalware from China, Center for Astrophysics. Japan, and South and Southeast Asia. The Center’s research activities are Programs at the Gallery include loan organized in seven divisions, as follows: exhibitions and major international shows offering both surveys of distinctive atomic and molecular physics, radio and Asian traditions and comparative geoastronomy, high-energy astrophysics, exhibitions showing the art of different optical and infrared astronomy, planetary centuries, geographic areas, and types of sciences, solar and stellar physics, and patronage. Many exhibitions are theoretical astrophysics. accompanied by public programs and Data-gathering facilities include a scholarly symposia. major observatory in Arizona, optical and radio astronomy facilities in For further information, contact the Arthur M. Massachusetts, and a submillimeter-wave Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. facility in Hawaii (now under construction). The Smithsonian Office of the Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory’s Archives The Office includes the observational capabilities are Institutional History Division and the complemented by library, computation, National Collections Program. The and laboratory facilities in Cambridge. Smithsonian Institution Archives Research results are published in the acquires, preserves, and makes available Center Preprint Series and other for research the official records of the technical and nontechnical bulletins, Smithsonian Institution and the papers of and distributed to scientific and QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 727 educational institutions around the branch library or to Central Reference world. As a further service to and Loan. international science, the Smithsonian For further information, contact the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory serves as the Institution Libraries, Tenth Street and Constitution headquarters for Astronomical Telegrams Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– and the Minor Planet Center. 357–2139. E-mail, [email protected]/. Astronomical Telegrams provide rapid Smithsonian Institution Traveling international dissemination of news Exhibition Service (SITES) Since 1952, about the discovery of comets, novae, SITES has been committed to making and other astronomical phenomena. The Smithsonian exhibitions available to Minor Planet Center is the principal millions of people who cannot view source for all positional observations of them firsthand at the Smithsonian asteroids as well as for establishing their museums in Washington, DC, and New orbits and ephemerides. York City. Each year, audiences across The Observatory offers an extensive North America experience the treasures public education program, including a and opportunities of the Smithsonian by variety of ‘‘open nights’’ held in visiting SITES exhibitions that come to Cambridge and at other facilities. local museums, libraries, science centers, historical societies, zoos, Information about these activities and other general materials for students and teachers may be aquariums, community centers, and obtained from the Smithsonian Astrophysical schools. More than 65 exhibitions on art, Observatory, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA history, and science circulate every year. 02138. Phone, 617–495–7461. SITES also offers exhibits in its Smithsonian Environmental Research International Gallery on the National Center The Center measures physical, Mall, in the S. Dillon Ripley Center, chemical, and biological interactions in 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. the environment and determines how For further information, to book a SITES exhibition, these interactions control biological or to receive a copy of Update, the annual catalog responses. This research is carried out in of current exhibitions, contact the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, MRC 706, a 2,600-acre facility in Edgewater, MD, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560. where the ecology of land/water Phone, 202–357–3168. interactions is studied for the estuary and adjacent watersheds of the Chesapeake Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Bay. (STRI) The Institute is a research organization for advanced studies of For further information, contact the Smithsonian tropical ecosystems. Headquartered in Environmental Research Center, P.O. Box 28, Edgewater, MD 21037. Phone, 301–261–4190. the Republic of Panama, STRI maintains extensive facilities in the Western Smithsonian Institution Libraries The Hemisphere tropics. It is the permanent libraries of the Smithsonian Institution base of a corps of tropical researchers, include more than one million volumes who in turn provide an intellectual with strengths in natural history, environment that attracts many visiting museology, history of science, and scientists and research fellows. The humanities. The systems’ administrative Institute’s researchers study the services and Central Reference and Loan , behavior, ecology, and history are located in the National Museum of of tropical species on systems ranging Natural History with 18 branch libraries from coral reefs to tropical rain forests. located in most of the major Smithsonian Growing strengths in molecular biology, museums and research units including plant physiology, and paleoecology the Smithsonian Astrophysical complement established excellence in Observatory in Cambridge, MA; the evolutionary biology and ecology. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute The Institute operates the Barro in the Republic of Panama; and the Colorado Nature Monument, a 12,000- National Air and Space Museum. acre forest reserve, including Barro Address inquiries to the appropriate Colorado Island (protected since 1923) 728 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL and adjacent peninsulas in Gatun Lake, Since its opening in 1971, the Center part of the . It also has presented a year-round program of maintains a research and conference the finest in music, dance, and drama center in Panama City, including one of from the United States and abroad. the world’s finest libraries. In addition, Facilities include the Opera House, the STRI has two marine laboratories, one at Eisenhower Theater, the American Film Naos Island on the Pacific entrance to Institute Theater, the Terrace Theater, the the Panama Canal and another at Galeta Theater Lab, and the Concert Hall, home Island on the Atlantic. It administers of the Center’s affiliate, the National marine stations in the Caribbean in the Symphony Orchestra. San Blas Islands, and at Cayos Cochinos, The Center’s Education Department , and maintains a research includes the nationwide Performing Arts vessel for off-shore studies. The Centers and Schools: Partners in Institute’s scientific staff conducts Education, American College Theater research in these areas as well as in Festival, Youth and Family Programs, the other parts of Central and South National Symphony Orchestra Education America, the Pacific, Asia, and Africa, Program, and the Kennedy Center where comparative studies are clarifying Alliance for Arts Education Network, the distinctive role of the tropics. designed to increase participation by For a brochure describing the students throughout the country in Institute’s activities and illustrating some Center activities and to establish the of the facilities and habitats available, Center as a focal point for strengthening contact the Visitor Services Office, the arts in education at all levels. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, The Kennedy Center box offices are Unit 0948 APO AA. International phone open daily, and general information and with operator assist, 011–507–227–6022. tickets may be obtained by calling 202– E-mail, [email protected]. 467–4600 or 202–416–8524 (TDD). Full-time students, senior citizens over For further information, contact the Smithsonian the age of 65, enlisted personnel of Tropical Research Institute, 900 Jefferson Drive grade E–4 and below, fixed low-income SW., MRC 555, Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–786–2817. Fax, 202–786–2819. Phone groups, and the disabled may purchase (Panama), 011–507–62–6022. E-mail, tickets for most performances at a 50- [email protected]. percent discount through the Specially Priced Ticket Program. This program is The John F. Kennedy Center for the designed to make the Center accessible Performing Arts The Center, the sole to all, regardless of economic official memorial in Washington to circumstance. President Kennedy, is an independent Visitor services are provided by the bureau of the Smithsonian Institution, Friends of the Kennedy Center administered by a 49-member Board of volunteers. Tours are available free of Trustees. charge between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. In a public/private partnership, the daily. Free performances are given every Federal Government provides day at 6 p.m. on the Millenium Stage in appropriated fund support for the the Grand Foyer. maintenance and operation of the physical facilities of the Presidential For further information, contact the Kennedy Center. Phone, 202–467–4600. Internet, http:// monument, while the Board of Trustees www.kennedy-center.org/. is responsible for raising private funds for all of the artistic initiatives. Additional National Gallery of Art The National funds for programming and education Gallery of Art is governed by a Board of are derived through box office sales and Trustees composed of five Trustees and other earned income, and other the Secretary of State, the Secretary of government grants. The Center’s Board is the Treasury, the Chief Justice of the responsible for administration of the United States, and the Secretary of the building and for performing arts Smithsonian Institution. It houses one of programming and education. the finest collections in the world, QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 729 illustrating Western man’s achievements computer system in any American art in painting, sculpture, and the graphic museum. Thirteen computers, installed arts. The collections, beginning with the in the redesigned art information room 13th century, are rich in European old near the Mall entrance, enable visitors to master paintings and French, Spanish, see in magnified detail nearly every Italian, American, and British 18th- and work of art on display in the permanent 19th-century paintings; sculpture from collection, as well as access to the late Middle Ages to the present; information about artists, geographic Renaissance medals and bronzes; areas, time periods, pronunciations (with Chinese porcelains; and about 75,000 sound), and more. Visitors can design a works of graphic art from the 12th to the personal tour of the collection and print 20th centuries. The collections are it out to use as a guide in the galleries. acquired by private donation rather than For information, call 202–842–6188 or by Government funds, which serve 202–842–6653. solely to operate and maintain the For general information on the National Gallery of building and its collections. Art and its activities, call 202–737–4215. Internet, The National Gallery’s West Building, http://www.nga.gov/. designed by in neoclassical style, was a gift to the Woodrow Wilson International Center Nation from Andrew W. Mellon, who for Scholars The Center, located in also bequeathed his collection to the Washington, DC, is the Nation’s official gallery in 1937. On March 17, 1941, memorial to its 28th President. The President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted Center’s mandate is to integrate the the completed building and works of art world of learning with the world of on behalf of the people of the United public affairs. Through meetings and States of America. conferences, the Center brings scholars The National Gallery’s East Building, together with Members of Congress, designed by I.M. Pei, was accepted by Government officials, business leaders, President Jimmy Carter in June of 1978 and other policymakers. Through as a gift of Paul Mellon and the late publication of books and the Wilson Ailsa Mellon Bruce, son and daughter of Quarterly and a nationally broadcast the gallery’s founder, and the Andrew radio program, the results of the Center’s W. Mellon Foundation. The East research and meetings are made publicly Building provides space for temporary available. exhibitions, the gallery’s growing The Center awards approximately 40 collections, the Center for the Advanced residential fellowships annually to Study in the Visual Arts, including individuals with project proposals greatly expanded library and representing the entire range of superior photographic archives, and scholarship, with a strong emphasis on administrative and curatorial offices. the humanities and social sciences. A professor-in-residence position is Applications from any country are filled annually by a distinguished scholar welcome. Persons with outstanding in the field of art history; graduate and capabilities and experience from a wide postgraduate research is conducted variety of backgrounds (including under a fellowship program; programs government, the corporate world, for schoolchildren and the general academia, and other professions) are public are conducted daily; and an eligible for appointment. For academic Extension Service distributes loans of participants, eligibility is limited to the audiovisual materials, including films, postdoctoral level. slide lectures, and slide sets throughout The Center prefers its fellows to be in the world. Publications, slides, and residence for the academic year— reproductions may be obtained through September to May or June—although a the Publications Service. few fellowships are available for shorter The Micro Gallery, located in the periods of not less than 4 months. West Building, is the most The Center holds one round of comprehensive interactive multimedia competitive selection per year. The 730 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL deadline for the receipt of applications is privately funded. For further information, October 1, and decisions on contact the Center for Advanced Study appointments are announced in March in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of of the following year. Art, Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202–842–6480; or fax, 202–842–6733. For further information, contact the Fellowship Office, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC Electronic Access Information about 20560. Phone, 202–357–2841. Fax, 202–357–4439. the Smithsonian Institution is available Internet, http://wwics.si.edu/. electronically through the Internet, at http://www.si.edu/. Sources of Information Information about programs, activities, Contracts and Small Business Activities and performances at the John F. 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Employment Employment information Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, for the Smithsonian is available from the Washington, DC 20566; and Supply Office of Human Resources, Smithsonian Officer, National Gallery of Art, Sixth Institution, Suite 2100, 955 L’Enfant Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20560. Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202– Phone, 202–287–3100. Recorded 287–3343. message, 202–287–3102. Employment Education and Research Refer to information for the following locations preceding statements on the Office of may be obtained by contacting the Fellowships and Grants, the Center for organizations directly as follows: Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, Personnel Office, National Gallery of the National Science Resources Center, Art, Fourth Street and Constitution the Smithsonian Education Office, and Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20565 other offices. For information, write to (phone, 202–842–6298; or for the the Directors of these offices at the hearing impaired (TDD), 202–789– Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 3021); and the John F. Kennedy Center 20560. for the Performing Arts, Human For information regarding Kennedy Resources Department, Washington, DC Center Education Programs, both in 20566 (phone, 202–416–8610). Washington, DC, and in nationwide Films The National Gallery of Art touring productions and training, contact circulates films, slide programs, videos, the John F. Kennedy Center for the teaching packets, and videodiscs to Performing Arts, Washington, DC 20566 schools and civic organizations (phone, 202–416–8000). throughout the country. Contact the The Center for Advanced Study in the Department of Education Resources, Visual Arts was founded in 1979, as part National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC of the National Gallery of Art, to 20565. Phone, 202–842–6273. Please promote study of the history, theory, and write to request a free catalog of criticism of art, architecture, and programs. urbanism through the formation of a Memberships For information about community of scholars. The activities of Smithsonian membership (Resident the Center for Advanced Study, which Program), write to The Smithsonian include the fellowship program, Associates, MRC 701, 1100 Jefferson meetings, research, and publications, are Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 731

Phone, 202–357–3030. The Resident that assist the Institution in achieving its Program offers a wide variety of goals. For additional information about performing arts events, courses, lectures, the Young Benefactors, write to The seminars, symposia, films, and guided Smithsonian Associates, 1100 Jefferson tours with specialists, authors, Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. celebrities, and other notables. Phone, 202–357–1351. Additional activities include a lecture The Circle of the National Gallery of series for senior adults; classes, Art is a membership program which workshops, films, and summer camp provides support for special projects for sessions for young people; and family which Federal funds are not available. and adult/child activities. Membership Since its inception in 1986, the Circle benefits include discounts and has provided support for scholarly admissions priority; a subscription to exhibitions, acquisitions of works of art, Smithsonian magazine; monthly copies publications, films, and symposia at the of the Associate, the award-winning Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in guide to Resident Associate activities; the Visual Arts. For more information and dining privileges. Additionally, all about membership in the Circle of the members receive discounts on museum National Gallery of Art, please write to shop purchases; Smithsonian Catalog The Circle, National Gallery of Art, items; Smithsonian Press/Smithsonian Washington, DC 20565; or call 202– Productions publications and recordings; 842–6450. and discounts on subscriptions to Air Information about activities of the and Space/Smithsonian magazine. The Friends of the National Zoo and their Smithsonian Associates also offer magazine, The Zoogoer, is available by volunteer opportunities and special writing to FONZ at the National services for individuals with disabilities. Zoological Park, Washington, DC For information about Smithsonian 20008. Phone, 202–673–4960. membership (National Program), contact Information about the national and The Smithsonian Associates, 1100 local activities of Friends of the Kennedy Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC Center (including the bimonthly Kennedy 20560. Phone, 202–357–4800. National Center News for members) is available at membership benefits include a the information desks within the Center subscription to Smithsonian magazine; or by writing to Friends of the Kennedy information services from the Associates’ Center, Washington, DC 20566. Reception Center; eligibility to travel on Photographs Color and black-and- international and U.S. study tours and white photographs and slides are seminars guided by expert study leaders; available to Government agencies, discounted tickets for Smithsonian research and educational institutions, educational events nationwide; and publishers, and the general public from shopping and dining privileges. The the Smithsonian. Subjects include Contributing Membership offers photographs of the Smithsonian’s additional opportunities to support the scientific, technological, historical, and Smithsonian Institution. Contributing art collections as well as pictures dating members, at various levels, receive an back more than 125 years taken from its array of benefits—from receiving photographic archives. Information, quarterly issues of Smithsonian order forms, and price lists may be Institution Research Reports to being obtained from the Office of Imaging, invited to the annual James Smithson Printing, and Photographic Services, weekend and other special events. For Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC information about the Contributing 20560. Phone, 202–357–1933. Membership, call 202–357–4300. Publications Smithsonian Press/ The Young Benefactors offers Smithsonian Productions and the Office individuals between the ages of 25 and of Public Affairs publish Smithsonian 45 the opportunity to increase their Year, the Institution’s annual report. understanding of the Institution and to Press/Productions also publishes a range participate in unique fundraising events of books and studies related to the 732 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL sciences, technology, history, air and Radio and Telephone Radio space, and the arts. A book catalog and Smithsonian produces award-winning a list of studies are available from radio series and specials about the arts, Publications Sales, Smithsonian sciences, and human culture for national Institution University Press, 1111 North broadcast on public radio. Capitol Street, Washington, DC 20002. Dial-A-Museum, 202–357–2020 Phone, 202–287–3738. To purchase a provides a taped message with daily Smithsonian Institution University Press announcements on new exhibits and volume, contact the Office. Phone, 800– special events. 782–4612. To purchase a recording of Smithsonian Skywatchers Report, 202– the Smithsonian Collection of 357–2000 is a taped message with Recordings, contact Press/Productions. weekly announcements on stars, planets, Phone, 800–863–9943. and worldwide occurrences of short- An events highlight advertisement, lived natural phenomena. which appears on the next-to-last Friday For a Spanish Listing of Smithsonian Events, call 202–633–9126. of the month, is published in the Concerts From the National Gallery is Washington Post by the Smithsonian broadcast 4 weeks after the performance Office of Public Affairs. on Washington, DC, area radio station A free Welcome brochure providing a WGTS, 91.9 FM, Sundays at 7 p.m., brief guide to the Smithsonian Institution November through July. is published in English and several Speakers The Education Office, foreign languages. A visitor’s guide for National Gallery of Art, Fourth Street individuals with disabilities and and Constitution Avenue NW., Smithsonian Institution Research Reports, Washington, DC 20565, provides gallery containing news of current research talks and lectures. Phone, 202–842– projects in the arts, sciences, and history 6246. that are being conducted by Smithsonian Special Functions Inquiries regarding staff, are available from the Smithsonian the use of Kennedy Center facilities for Office of Public Affairs, 900 Jefferson special functions may be directed to the Drive SW., MRC 421, Washington, DC Office of Special Events, John F. 20560. Phone, 202–357–2627. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, To request a copy of Smithsonian Washington, DC 20566. Phone, 202– Runner, a newsletter about Native 416–8000. American-related activities at the Theater Operations Inquiries regarding Smithsonian, contact the National the use of the Kennedy Center’s theaters Museum of the American Indian, may be addressed to the Booking Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Coordinator, John F. Kennedy Center for 20560. the Performing Arts, Washington, DC For the newsletter Art to Zoo for 20566. Phone, 202–416–8000. teachers of fourth through eighth graders, Tours For information about museum write to the Smithsonian Office of and gallery tours, contact the Education, Room 1163, MRC 402, Arts Smithsonian Information Center, 1000 and Industries Building, Washington, DC Jefferson Drive, SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2425. 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. School The Gallery Shops, National Gallery of groups are welcome. Art (phone, 202–842–6466), makes Special member tours are provided available quality reproductions and through Friends of the National Zoo, publications about the Gallery’s National Zoological Park, 3000 collections. The Information Office Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, provides a monthly Calendar of Events DC 20008. Phone, 202–673–4821. and several brochures including Brief Visitor Information The Smithsonian Guide to the National Gallery of Art and Information Center, located in the An Invitation to the National Gallery of original Smithsonian building, commonly Art (the latter in several foreign known as ‘‘The Castle,’’ provides general languages). orientation, through films, computer QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 733 interactive programs, and visitor participate in an independent program in information specialists, to help members which their educational and professional and the public learn about the national backgrounds are matched with curatorial collections, museum events, exhibitions, or research requests from within the and special programs. Write to the Smithsonian. For information, write to Smithsonian Information Center, 1000 the Visitor Information and Associates’ Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC Reception Center, 1000 Jefferson Drive 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. 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