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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 1000 Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560 Phone, 202–357–1300

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 1000 Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560 Phone, 202–357–1300

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 1000 Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560 Phone, 202–357–1300

Board of Regents: The Chief Justice of the WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST () The Vice President of the United States ALBERT GORE, JR. Members of the Senate DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN, THAD COCHRAN, ALAN K. SIMPSON Members of the House of Representatives , NORMAN Y. MINETA, BOB LIVINGSTON Citizen Members JEANNINE SMITH CLARK, BARBER B. CONABLE, , MANUEL L. IBA´N˜ EZ,S AMUEL C. JOHNSON, HOMER A. NEAL, FRANK A. SHRONTZ,W ESLEY SAMUEL WILLIAMS, JR., (VACANCY) Officials: The Secretary I. MICHAEL HEYMAN The Inspector General THOMAS D. BLAIR Director, Office of Planning, Management CAROLE WHARTON and Budget Counselor to the Secretary for Electronic MARC PACHTER Communications and Special Projects Counselor to the Secretary for Latino Affairs MIGUEL BRETOS Executive Assistant to the Secretary JAMES M. HOBBINS Executive Secretary to the Secretary BARBARA SEDERBORG Under Secretary CONSTANCE NEWMAN General Counsel JAMES DOUGLAS, Acting Director, Office of Government Relations JOHN BERRY Director, Office of Communications DAVID J. UMANSKY Senior Information Officer LEE DENNY Director, Visitor Information and Associates MARY GRACE POTTER Reception Center Assistant Secretary for Finance and NANCY SUTTENFIELD Administration Executive Assistant for Administration CAROLYN JONES QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 749

Director, Office of Sponsored Projects ARDELLE FOSS Director, Office of Equal Employment and ERA MARSHALL Minority Affairs Director, Office of Human Resources SUSAN ROEHMER Director, Office of Information Technology VINCENT J. MARCALUS Director, Office of Printing and Photographic JAMES H. WALLACE, JR. Services Director, Office of Contracting and Property JOHN W. COLBERT Management Director, Travel Services Office JUDITH PETROSKI Director of Facilities Services RICHARD RICE, Acting Director, Office of Design and Construction WILLIAM L. THOMAS, Acting Director, Office of Plant Services PATRICK J. MILLER Director, Office of Protection Services MICHAEL J. SOFIELD, Acting Director, Mail Order Division (VACANCY) Assistant Directors, Shops ROLAND BANSCHER JOSEPH CARPER Director, Office of Architectural History and CYNTHIA R. FIELD Historic Preservation Director, Office of Environmental F. WILLIAM BILLINGSLEY Management and Safety Treasurer SUDEEP ANAND Comptroller LESLIE CASSON Risk Manager, Office of Risk and Asset JACQUELINE YOUNG Management Senior Business Officer, Office of Business NANCY JOHNSON Management Director, Office of Product Development HANNAH MULLIN, Acting and Licensing Assistant Provost for and Humanities TOM L. FREUDENHEIM Director, Museum 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 Museum of African Art SYLVIA WILLIAMS Associate Director for Collections and ROY SIEBER Research (NMAFA) Director, National Air and Space Museum MARTIN O. HARWIT Director, National Museum of ELIZABETH BROUN Curator in Charge, MICHAEL W. MONROE Director, National Museum of American SPENCER CREW History Director, National Museum of the American W. RICHARD WEST, JR. Indian Director, National Portrait Gallery ALAN M. FERN Director, Office of Exhibits Central JOHN COPPOLA Director, Center for Museum Studies REX ELLIS Director, Traveling ANNA R. COHN Exhibition Service Director, Institutional Studies Office ZAHAVA DOERING Provost ROBERT S. HOFFMANN 750 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

Assistant Provost for the Sciences ROSS B. SIMONS Editor, Papers Project MARC ROTHENBERG Director, American Studies Program WILCOMB E. WASHBURN Director, National Zoological Park MICHAEL H. ROBINSON Director, National Museum of Natural DONALD ORTNER, Acting History Director, Smithsonian Man and the FRANCISCO DALLMEIER Biosphere Program 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 Deputy Director, Conservation Analytical ALAN W. POSTLETHWAITE Laboratory Director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries BARBARA SMITH Director, Museum Support Center VINCENT WILCOX Coordinator, International Environmental JOAN ZAVALA Science Program Director, Environmental Awareness Program JUDITH GRADWOHL Director, Smithsonian Institution Archives ETHEL W. HEDLIN Coordinator, The National Collections WILLIAM TOMPKINS Program (Smithsonian Institution Archives) Assistant Provost for Educational and Cultural JAMES EARLY Programs Director, Office of Elementary and ANN BAY Secondary Education 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 Special Events and KATHERINE KIRLIN, Acting Conference Services Director, Office of International Relations FRANCINE BERKOWITZ Coordinator, International Center FRANCINE BERKOWITZ Director, Office of Telecommunications PAUL B. JOHNSON Director, Smithsonian Institution Press DANIEL GOODWIN, Acting Deputy Director, Smithsonian Institution VINCENT L. MACDONNELL Press Editor, Smithsonian Magazine DONALD B. MOSER Publisher, Smithsonian Magazine RON WALKER Director, The Smithsonian Associates MARA MAYOR Associate Director for Marketing and HOLLY SHAHEEN Membership, The Smithsonian Associates Associate Director for Educational and CAROL BOGASH Cultural Programs, The Smithsonian Associates Deputy Director, The Smithsonian BARBARA TUCELING Associates QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 751

Assistant Secretary for Institutional ALICE GREEN BURNETTE Advancement Director, National Campaign for the JOHN L. COLONGHI National Museum of the American Indian Director, Office of Development MARIE MATTSON The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 1 Chairman JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN 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

The Smithsonian Institution is an independent trust instrumentality of the United States that fosters the increase and diffusion of knowledge. History, technology, science, and are represented in exhibits through the conduct of research, publication of studies, and participation in cooperative international programs of scholarly exchange.

The Smithsonian Institution was created To carry out Smithson’s mandate, the by act of , 1846 (20 U.S.C. 41 Institution: et seq.), to carry out the terms of the will —performs fundamental research; of of England, who in 1829 had bequeathed his entire estate to —publishes the results of studies, the United States ‘‘to found at explorations, and investigations; Washington, under the name of the —preserves for study and reference Smithsonian Institution, an establishment more than 140 million items of for the increase and diffusion of scientific, cultural, and historical interest; knowledge.’’ On July 1, 1836, Congress —maintains exhibits representative of accepted the legacy and pledged the the arts, American history, technology, faith of the United States to the aeronautics and space exploration, and charitable trust. natural history; and After accepting the trust property for the United States, Congress vested —engages in programs of education responsibility for administering the trust and national and international in the Smithsonian Board of Regents, cooperative research and training, composed of the Chief Justice, the Vice supported by its trust endowments and President, three Members of the Senate, gifts, grants and contracts, and funds three Members of the House of appropriated to it by Congress. Representatives, and nine citizen members appointed by joint resolution Activities of Congress. Anacostia Museum The Museum is located in the historic Fort Stanton 1 Administered under a separate Board of Trustees. neighborhood of southeast Washington. 752 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL TIONAL PROGRAMS AND CULTURAL INTERNATIONAL WOODROW WILSON CENTER FOR SCHOLARS JOHN F. KENNEDYJOHN F. CENTER NATIONAL GALLERYART OF FOR ARTS THE PERFORMING THE SCIENCES FOR EDUCA UNDER SEPARATE BOARDS OF TRUSTEES UNDER SEPARATE THE PROVOST AND FOR FOR ARTS ARTS FOR HUMANITIES ASSISTANT PROVOST ASSISTANT PROVOST ASSISTANT PROVOST SECRETARIAT ADVANCEMENT FOR INSTITUTIONAL ASSISTANT SECRETARY THE SECRETARY BOARD OF REGENTS SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION OTHER FUNCTIONS THE UNDER SECRETARY OFFICE OF PLANNING, MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET ADMINISTRATION FOR FINANCE AND ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL INSPECTOR OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 753

The Museum serves as a national Washington and . Regional resource for exhibitions, scholarly and branch offices, each with a complete set applied research, historical of microfilm duplicating the archives’ documentation, and interpretive and collections, are located in , educational programs relating to African- , New York, and San Marino, American history and culture. The California. African-American church, the Harlem For further information, contact the Archives of Renaissance, African-American American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, inventors, and works by renowned artists DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2781. such as have been the subjects of exhibitions by the Museum. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery The The Research Department, open for museum of Asian art opened to the use by scholars, supports exhibition public September 1987 on the National design and educational programs. It Mall. Changing exhibitions drawn from conducts independent studies of African- major collections in the United States American history, minority and ethnic and abroad, as well as from the studies, and the history of Anacostia and permanent holdings of the Sackler Washington, DC. Gallery, are displayed in the distinctive The Education Department designs, new museum. The Gallery’s growing prepares, and schedules programs that permanent collection is founded on a enhance current exhibitions and group of art objects from China, South develops independent programs and and , and the ancient activities to serve the needs and interests Near East that was given by the late of the immediate neighborhood, as well Arthur M. Sackler, a medical researcher, as the broader community. These publisher, and art collector. Dr. Sackler’s activities include guided tours, gift included Chinese jades, bronzes, demonstrations, lectures, storytelling, ancient Near Eastern ceramics, gold and teacher seminars, family workshops, silver, and sculpture from South and conservation seminars, and performing Southeast Asia. The collection has arts programs. expanded to include Persian For further information, contact the Anacostia manuscripts; Japanese paintings; Museum, 1901 Fort Place SE., Washington, DC ceramics, prints, and textiles; and 20020. Phone, 202–287–3369. paintings and metalware from China, Japan, and South and Southeast Asia. The Archives Programs at the Gallery include loan contains the Nation’s largest collection exhibitions and major international of documentary materials reflecting the shows offering both surveys of distinctive history of visual arts in the United States. Asian traditions and comparative The Archives gathers, preserves, and exhibitions showing the art of different microfilms the papers of artists, centuries, geographic areas, and types of craftsmen, collectors, dealers, critics, patronage. Many exhibitions are , and art societies. These papers accompanied by public programs and consist of manuscripts, letters, scholarly symposia. notebooks, sketchbooks, business records, clippings, exhibition catalogs, For further information, contact the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Avenue SW., tape-recorded interviews, and Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–4880. photographs of artists and their work. The extensive microfilm holdings include Conservation Analytical Laboratory bodies of materials not belonging to the The Laboratory provides a focus within Archives but recorded by it with the Smithsonian Institution for permission of the owner. conservation of the millions of artifacts The Archives’ chief processing and in the collections. It provides chemical reference center is in the Smithsonian’s analyses to curators for cataloging Museum of American Art and Portrait purposes, and to conservators for Gallery Building. The Archives has establishing the nature of a particular administrative offices in both example of deterioration and for 754 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL determining whether commercial results in scholarly journals and books. materials proposed for use in prolonged They arrange special exhibitions and contact with artifacts are truly safe. It lectures in their fields of treats many hundreds of artifacts each specialization. year and, upon request, supports other For further information, contact the Freer Gallery conservators in the Institution with of Art, Twelfth Street and Jefferson Drive SW., advice and specialized materials. It Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–4880. collaborates with archeologists, curators, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture and university and government Garden The Museum houses major laboratories in archeometric studies. collections of art consisting primarily of For further information, contact the Director, American and European painting and Conservation Analytical Laboratory, Museum sculpture of the 100 years. The Support Center, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20560. Phone, 301–238–3700. nucleus of the collection is the gift of more than 7,000 works of art presented Cooper-Hewitt, National Design in 1966 to the people of the United Museum The Museum is located in States by Joseph H. Hirshhorn (1899– . Its collection consists of 1981). more than 165,000 items. It maintains a Supplementing the permanent reference library of about 50,000 collection are loan exhibitions focusing volumes relating to design, ornament, on contemporary painting and sculpture and architecture, and a picture library of as well as on art movements of the several million photographs and modern era. There is an active program clippings, as well as a series of archives of public service and education, devoted to color material and industrial including docent tours through the design. The Museum is not only a major Museum to introduce visitors to the assemblage of decorative art materials collections, lectures on but also a research laboratory serving and artists, films of historic and artistic professionals and students of design. The interest, and others. The Museum houses regularly changing exhibitions always a collection research facility, a relate to some aspect of design. The specialized 10,000-volume art library, museum is open daily except Mondays and a photographic archive—available and major holidays. for consultation by prior appointment. For further information, contact the Cooper-Hewitt, For further information, contact the Hirshhorn National Design Museum, 2 East Ninety-First Street, Museum and Sculpture Garden, Eighth Street and New York, NY 10128. Phone, 212–860–6868. Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–3091. Freer Gallery of Art The building, the National Museum of African Art This original collection, and an endowment is the only in the United were the gift of . The States dedicated exclusively to portraying Gallery houses one of the world’s most the rich, creative heritage of Africa. renowned collections of Asian art as Established in 1964 and incorporated well as an important group of ancient as a bureau of the Smithsonian in 1979, Egyptian glass, early Christian the Museum opened its new location on manuscripts, and the works of James the in September 1987. Its McNeill Whistler together with other research components, collection, 19th and early 20th century American exhibitions, and public programs artists. establish the Museum as a primary More than 26,000 objects in the Asian source for the examination and collection represent the arts of East Asia, discovery of the arts and culture of sub- the Near East, and South and Southeast Saharan Africa. In recent years, works of Asia, including paintings, manuscripts, outstanding aesthetic quality have been scrolls, screens, ceramics, metalwork, added to a collection numbering about glass, jade, lacquer, and sculpture. 7,000 works in wood, metal, fired clay, Members of the staff conduct research ivory, and fiber. Examples of sub- on objects in the collection and publish Saharan traditional art include a wooden QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 755 figure of a Zairian Yombe carver; a visiting scholars, both predoctoral and Lower Niger Bronze Industry vessel, with postdoctoral, is maintained, and training chameleons; and a memorial grave for university interns in all aspects of figure of a colonial officer from the museum operations, including Cameroon grassfields. conservation, is carried on under staff The Eliot Elisofon Photographic supervision. Archives includes some 100,000 slides, The Renwick Gallery presents special photos, and film segments on Africa. exhibitions of contemporary American There is also a specialized library of crafts, with accompanying publications, 18,000 volumes and periodicals. as well as a selection of objects, dating from 1900 to the present, from its For further information, contact the Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue SW., permanent collection. It also maintains Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–4600. an active film and lecture program. Guided tours of the galleries and National Air and Space Museum special educational programs for schools Created to memorialize the development and organizations are provided. of aviation and space flight, the Museum For further information, contact the National collects, displays, and preserves Museum of American Art, Eighth and G Streets aeronautical and space flight artifacts of NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357– historical significance as well as 1959. documentary and artistic materials related to air and space. The exhibitions National Museum of American History and study collections record human The Museum’s exhibits offer a unique conquest of the air from its tentative view of the American experience. beginnings to recent achievements by Important elements of the collections high altitude aircraft, guided missiles, present the European background, but rockets, satellites, and manned space emphasis is placed upon the growth of flight. The principal areas in which work the United States, upon the men and is concentrated include flight craft of all women who have shaped our heritage, types, manned and unmanned; space upon science and the arts, and upon the flight vehicles; and propulsion systems. remaking of our world through technology. The Langley Theater, with a giant Exhibits draw upon strong collections screen presentation, and the 70-foot in the sciences and engineering, domed Einstein Planetarium are featured. agriculture, manufacturing, For further information, contact the National Air transportation, medicine, printing, and Space Museum, Seventh Street and photography, ceramics, coins and Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–1745. stamps, and glass. Outstanding holdings include Whitney’s cotton gin, Morse’s National Museum of American Art telegraph, the locomotive, and This museum is devoted to American a great variety of scientific instruments. painting, sculpture, folk art, Political, social, military, and cultural photography, and graphic art from the history are also well represented. Major 18th century to the present. A portion of installations treat everyday life in the Museum’s permanent collection of America just after the Revolutionary over 35,000 works is exhibited in its War, science in American life, and the extensive galleries, and the remainder is diverse origins of the American people. available for study by scholars. Various The Museum offers changing exhibits on aspects of American art are examined a wide range of subjects including news through numerous temporary exhibitions, reporting, information technology, accompanied by carefully documented American music, and American cars and publications. The Department of trains. Demonstrations, films, and Educational Programs conducts tours for performances highlight many aspects of schoolchildren, university students, and the museum. the general public. It also has a program Scholars may be aided in the use of for junior interns. A research program for the Museum’s research collections and 756 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL specialized library facilities by The Museum maintains the largest appointment. natural history reference collections in the Nation available to qualified For further information, contact the National Museum of American History, Twelfth Street and researchers. Systematic and biological NW., Washington, DC 20560. studies at the museum are providing new Phone, 202–357–2510. information that is of use in conservation, monitoring pollution, food National Museum of the American production, improvement of medical Indian The Museum was established by knowledge, and other problems. act of November 28, 1989 (20 U.S.C. A Global Volcanism Network gathers 80q et seq.), and will eventually be information about volcanic activity and located in a museum to be built on the other geophysical events and informs National Mall in Washington, DC, near scientists around the world via a the turn of the century. In the meantime, monthly bulletin and other publications. some of the Museum’s collections are on The Museum also administers the view in the George Gustav Heye Center Smithsonian Marine Station at Link Port, located in the U.S. Florida, which conducts marine Custom House in lower Manhattan in biological research along the Florida New York City. The Museum, whose coast. collections were transferred from the The Museum staff participates in joint former Museum of the American Indian, educational programs with universities Heye Foundation, in New York City, is by teaching courses, training graduate dedicated to the collection, preservation, students, and conducting science study, and exhibition of the living seminars. cultures, history, and arts of the native peoples of the Americas. For further information, contact the National Museum of Natural History, Tenth Street and Highlights include Northwest Coast Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20560. carvings; Eskimo masks; pottery and Phone, 202–357–2664. weaving from the Southwest; painted hides and garments from the Plains; National Portrait Gallery The Gallery goldwork from Colombia, Mexico, and was established by act of April 27, 1962 Peru; and Amazonian featherwork. (20 U.S.C. 75a), as a museum of the Smithsonian Institution ‘‘for the For information on hours and exhibition and study of portraiture admission fees, call 212–668–6624 (in depicting men and women who have New York City) or 202–357–2700 (in made significant contributions to the Washington, DC). history, development, and culture of the For further information, contact the National people of the United States.’’ It is housed Museum of the American Indian, Suite 7103, 470 in one of the oldest Government L’Enfant Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–287–2523. structures in Washington—the former U.S. Patent Office Building, constructed National Museum of Natural History between 1836 and 1867—on the very This museum serves as a national and site that Pierre L’Enfant, in his original international center for the natural plan for the city, had designated for a sciences. Among the exhibits are halls pantheon to honor the Nation’s devoted to the Ice Age; the rise of immortals. Western civilization; mammals; birds; The first floor of the Gallery is devoted dinosaurs and other extinct animals and to major loan exhibitions, changing plants; sea life; South American, Asian, exhibitions from the Gallery’s collection African, and Pacific cultures; gems and of paintings, sculpture, prints, minerals; and American Indians. Notable photographs, and drawings as well as attractions include a 3,000-gallon tank several galleries with special portrait containing a living coral reef; a live- collections. On the second floor are insect zoo; a discovery room, where featured the permanent collection of persons of all ages may touch and portraits of eminent Americans and the handle natural history specimen. Hall of Presidents containing portraits QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 757 and associative items of our Chief approximately 4,500 living mammals, Executives. The two-story Victorian birds, amphibians, and reptiles of 480 Renaissance Great Hall on the third floor species. Research objectives include is used for special events and investigations in animal behavior, exhibitions. ecology, nutrition, reproductive Publications include richly illustrated physiology, pathology, and clinical catalogs for major shows, an illustrated medicine. Conservation-oriented studies checklist of portraits in the collection, cover maintenance of wild populations and educational materials designed to be and long-term captive breeding and care used as teaching guides. of endangered species. A 45,000-volume library is shared with the National Museum of American For further information, contact the National Zoological Park, 3001 Connecticut Avenue NW., Art. The education department offers Washington, DC 20008. Phone, 202–673–4721. outreach programs for elementary and secondary schools, senior citizen groups, American Studies Program This office hospitals, and nursing homes; walk-in or conducts a graduate program in the group tours; and programs for material aspects of American civilization handicapped audiences. for graduate students enrolled in For general information and descriptive brochures cooperating universities. Interested on the Gallery’s activities, contact the Public Affairs students should apply to the American Office, National Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F studies departments of the George Streets NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– Washington University or the University 357–1915. of or the Office of American The Studies, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian’s newest museum houses Washington, DC 20560. the Nation’s postal history and philatelic For further information, contact the Office of collection, the largest of its kind in the American Studies, National Postal Museum, 2 world, with more than 16 million Massachusetts Avenue NE., Washington, DC 20560. objects. The 75,000 square-foot museum Phone, 202–633–9386. is devoted to the history of America’s Office of Fellowships and Grants This mail service. Five major galleries include office develops and administers the exhibits on mail service in colonial times numerous Smithsonian programs and the Civil War, the Pony Express, the designed to assist scholars and students of modern mail service, from the United States and throughout automation, mail transportation, the art the world in utilizing the Institution’s of letters, and displays of the Museum’s unique resources. These academic priceless stamp collection. programs, which include long- and Highlights include three mail planes, a short-term appointments, are an replica of a railway mail car, a important complement to those offered mudwagon, an airmail beacon, displays by universities and support participants’ of letters and greeting cards, foreign and research in art, history, and science. domestic mail boxes, and more than Predoctoral, postdoctoral, and 5,000 U.S. and foreign issue stamps and graduate student fellowship programs covers. provide scholars and students the For further information, contact the National Postal opportunity to conduct research on Museum, 2 Massachusetts Avenue NE., Washington, independently conceived projects at DC 20560. Phone, 202–633–9361. Smithsonian facilities in conjunction National Zoological Park The Park with the Institution’s research staff. covers an area of approximately 165 The Office of Fellowships and Grants acres of parkland along Rock Creek, 2 offers internships aimed at increasing miles north of the center of Washington. minority participation in ongoing In addition, it operates a 3,000-acre Smithsonian research activities and fields conservation and research center near of interest. In addition, it administers all Front Royal, VA. Its collection is internships funded by stipends. In outstanding and is composed of addition to these programs, the Office 758 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL administers other research opportunity intern referral and placement service. programs for many of the Smithsonian The Center also supports programs in bureaus. museum careers. It cooperates with For further information, contact the Office of American and foreign museums and Fellowships and Grants, Suite 7300, 955 L’Enfant governmental agencies on museum Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– matters and houses the Museum 287–3271. Reference Center, the Nation’s only Center for Folklife Programs and museological library. Cultural Studies The Center is For further information, contact the Center for responsible for research, documentation, Museum Studies, 900 Jefferson Drive SW., Room and presentation of American folklife 2235, Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357– 3101. traditions. It produces Folkways Recordings, prepares publications based Smithsonian Institution Archives The on the papers, films, tapes, and other Archives, which is open by appointment materials amassed during previous to the scholarly community and the Festivals of American Folklife and directs general public, is the official depository the planning, development, and for the Institution’s records. These presentation of future folklife programs. records are essential to an understanding For further information, contact the Center for of the growth of the Institution. They are Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, Suite 2600, equally significant for their 955 L’Enfant Plaza, Washington, DC 20560. Phone, documentation of the development of 202–287–3424. science and art in America, particularly International Center The International during the , a process in Center supports Smithsonian activities which the Smithsonian played a major abroad and coordinates the part. In addition to its official records, Smithsonian’s international interests, the Archives holds a substantial number particularly those that do not fall within of private papers that further document the scope of a single Smithsonian bureau the Smithsonian’s role through the lives or museum. The International Center of eminent scientists, such as Joseph provides a meeting place and an Henry, Spencer F. Baird, Samuel P. organizational channel to bring together Langley, Charles D. Walcott, and the world’s scholars, museum . Holdings are professionals, decisionmakers, and the described in the Guide to Smithsonian general public, to attend and participate Archives, Smithsonian Institution Press, in conferences, public forums, lectures, 1978. performances, exhibitions, films, and For further information, contact the Smithsonian workshops. Through the International Institution Archives, 900 Jefferson Drive SW., Center, the Smithsonian seeks to Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–1420. encourage a broadening of public Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory understanding of the histories, cultures, The Observatory is located in and natural environments of regions Cambridge, MA, on the grounds of the throughout the world. Harvard College Observatory. Since For further information, contact the Office of 1973, the observatories have International Relations, Room 3123, 1100 Jefferson coordinated research activities under a Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– single director in a cooperative venture 357–4281. known as the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Museum Studies The Center Center for Astrophysics. provides professional guidance and The Center’s research activities are technical assistance to museums on organized in seven divisions, as follows: collections and their management, atomic and molecular physics, radio and exhibition techniques, educational geoastronomy, high-energy astrophysics, activities, and operational methods. It optical and infrared astronomy, planetary conducts training programs for museum sciences, solar and stellar physics, and professionals and administers a central theoretical astrophysics. QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 759

Data-gathering facilities include a museology, history of science, and major observatory in Arizona, optical humanities. The systems’ administrative and radio astronomy facilities in services and Central Reference and Loan Massachusetts, and a radio astronomy are located in the National Museum of and submillimeter-wave facility in Natural History with branch libraries Hawaii. The Smithsonian Astrophysical located in each of the major Smithsonian Observatory’s observational capabilities museums and research units including are complemented by library, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design computation, and laboratory facilities in Museum, New York City; the Cambridge. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Research results are published in the Cambridge, MA; and the Smithsonian Center Preprint Series and other Tropical Research Institute, Republic of technical and nontechnical bulletins, . Inquiries on special subjects or and distributed to scientific and special collections should be addressed educational institutions around the to the appropriate branch library or to world. As a further service to Central Reference and Loan. international science, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory serves as the For further information, contact the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Tenth Street and Constitution headquarters for the International Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– Astronomical Union’s Central Telegram 357–2240. Bureau and the Minor Planet Center. The Central Telegram Bureau provides rapid Smithsonian Institution Traveling international dissemination of news Exhibition Service The purpose of the about the discovery of comets, novae, Service is to provide to educational, and other astronomical phenomena. The scientific, and cultural institutions Minor Planet Center is the principal exhibitions and other services that will source for all positional observations of enrich their programs and enable them asteroids as well as for establishing their to offer a greater variety of cultural orbits and ephemerides. experiences to their audiences. The The Public Affairs Office coordinates Service circulates the best possible an extensive public education program. exhibits at the lowest possible rental A variety of ‘‘open nights’’ are held in fees. Cambridge and at other facilities. More than 75 exhibitions of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, decorative Information about these activities and other general arts, history, children’s art, natural materials for students and teachers may be obtained from the Information Officer, Smithsonian history, photography, science, and Astrophysical Observatory, 60 Garden Street, technology are circulated every year. Cambridge, MA 02138. Phone, 617–495–7461. Lists of available exhibitions and information for future bookings can be Smithsonian Environmental Research obtained directly from the Smithsonian Center The Center measures physical, Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, chemical, and biological interactions in Washington, DC 20560. the environment and determines how these interactions control biological For further information, contact the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Room 3146, responses. This research is carried out in 1100 Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. a 2,600-acre facility in Edgewater, MD, Phone, 202–357–3168. where the ecology of land/water interactions is studied for an estuary and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute its adjacent watersheds. The Institute, a research organization devoted to the study and support of For further information, contact the Smithsonian tropical biology, education, and Environmental Research Center, P.O. Box 28, Edgewater, MD 21037. Phone, 301–261–4190. conservation, focuses broadly on the evolution of patterns of behavior and Smithsonian Institution Libraries The ecological adaptations. The tropics offer libraries of the Smithsonian Institution a rich natural laboratory for these include approximately 1.4 million purposes. Panama further offers its volumes with strengths in natural history, unique zoogeographic characteristics—landbridge 760 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL to terrestrial life forms of two continents Since its opening in 1971, the Center and water barriers to marine life of two has presented a year-round program of oceans. the finest in music, dance, and drama The Institute provides a base of from the United States and abroad. operations and an intellectual center for Facilities include the Opera House, the exploring the frontiers of biology across Eisenhower Theater, the American Film the varied land and seascapes of the Institute Theater, the Terrace Theater, the tropical world. It operates the Barro Theater Lab, and the Concert Hall, home Colorado Nature Monument, a 12,000- of the Center’s affiliate, the National acre tropical forest research preserve Symphony Orchestra. including Barro Colorado Island and The Center’s Education Department adjacent peninsulas in Gatun Lake, includes the nationwide American Republic of Panama. The Institute also College Theater Festival, Youth and maintains a research and conference Family Programs, the National center in Ancon, including one of the Symphony Orchestra Education Program, world’s finest tropical biology libraries. and the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts In addition, there are two marine biology Education, designed to increase laboratories, one on the Atlantic side of participation by students throughout the the isthmus at Galeta Island and the country in Center activities and to other at Fort Amador on the Pacific side. establish the Center as a focal point for The Institute’s scientific staff conducts strengthening the arts in education at all research in these areas as well as in levels. other parts of Central and South The Kennedy Center box offices are America, the Pacific, Asia, and Africa, open daily, and general information and where comparative studies are clarifying tickets may be obtained by calling 202– the distinctive biological role of the 467–4600 or 202–416–8524 (TDD). tropics. Full-time students, senior citizens over the age of 65, enlisted personnel of For a brochure describing the Institute’s activities grade E–4 and below, fixed low-income and illustrating some of the facilities and habitats groups, and the disabled may purchase available, contact the Director, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Unit 0948 APO AA tickets for most performances at a 50- 34002–0948. Phone, 507–62–3049 (international percent discount through the Specially operator assistance required). Priced Ticket Program. This program is designed to make the Center accessible The John F. Kennedy Center for the to all, regardless of economic Performing Arts The Center, the sole circumstance. official memorial in Washington to Visitor services are provided by the President Kennedy, is an independent Friends of the Kennedy Center. Tours are bureau of the Smithsonian Institution, available free of charge between 10 a.m. administered by a 49-member Board of and 1 p.m. daily. Trustees. In a public/private partnership, the National Gallery of Art The National Federal Government provides Gallery of Art is governed by a Board of appropriated fund support for the Trustees composed of five Trustees and maintenance and operation of the the Secretary of State, the Secretary of physical facilities of the Presidential the Treasury, the Chief Justice of the monument, while the Board of Trustees United States, and the Secretary of the is responsible for raising private funds for Smithsonian Institution. It houses one of all of the artistic initiatives. Additional the finest collections in the world, funds for programming and education illustrating Western man’s achievements are derived through box office sales and in painting, sculpture, and the graphic other earned income, and other arts. The collections, beginning with the government grants. The Center’s Board is 13th century, are rich in European old responsible for administration of the master paintings and French, Spanish, building and for performing arts Italian, American, and British 18th- and programming and education. 19th-century paintings; sculpture from QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 761 the late Middle Ages to the present; conferences, the Center brings scholars Renaissance medals and bronzes; together with Members of Congress, Chinese porcelains; and about 75,000 Government officials, business leaders, works of graphic art from the 12th to the and other policymakers. Through 20th centuries. The collections are publication of books and the Wilson acquired by private donation rather than Quarterly and a nationally broadcast by government funds, which serve solely radio program, the results of the Center’s to operate and maintain the building and research and meetings are made publicly its collections. available. The National Gallery’s West Building, The Center awards approximately 40 designed by in residential fellowships annually to neoclassical style, was a gift to the individuals with project proposals Nation from Andrew W. Mellon, who representing the entire range of superior also bequeathed his collection to the scholarship, with a strong emphasis on gallery in 1937. On March 17, 1941, the humanities and social sciences. President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the completed building and works of art Applications from any country are on behalf of the people of the United welcome. Persons with outstanding States of America. capabilities and experience from a wide The National Gallery’s East Building, variety of backgrounds (including designed by I.M. Pei, was accepted by government, the corporate world, President in June of 1978 academia, and other professions) are as a gift of and the late eligible for appointment. For academic , son and daughter of participants, eligibility is limited to the the gallery’s founder, and the Andrew postdoctoral level. W. Mellon Foundation. The East The Center prefers its fellows to be in Building provides space for temporary residence for the academic year— exhibitions, the gallery’s growing September to May or June—although a collections, the Center for the Advanced few fellowships are available for shorter Study in the Visual Arts, including periods of not less than 4 months. greatly expanded library and The Center holds one round of photographic archives, and competitive selection per year. The administrative and curatorial offices. deadline for the receipt of applications is A professor-in-residence position is October 1, and decisions on filled annually by a distinguished scholar appointments are announced in March in the field of ; graduate and of the following year. postgraduate research is conducted under a fellowship program; programs For further information, contact the Fellowship Office, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC for schoolchildren and the general 20560. Phone, 202–357–2841; Fax, 202–357–4439. public are conducted daily; and an Extension Service distributes loans of Sources of Information audiovisual materials, including films, slide lectures, and slide sets throughout Contracts and Small Business Activities the world. Publications, slides, and Information may be obtained from the reproductions may be obtained through Director, Office of Contracting and the Publications Service. Property Management, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, For general information on the National Gallery of regarding procurement of supplies; Art and its activities, call 202–737–4215. contracts for construction, services, Woodrow Wilson International Center exhibits, research, etc.; and property for Scholars The Center, located in management and utilization services for Washington, DC, is the Nation’s official all Smithsonian Institution organizations memorial to its 28th President. The except as follows: John F. Kennedy Center’s mandate is to integrate the Center for the Performing Arts, world of learning with the world of Washington, DC 20566; Supply Officer, public affairs. Through meetings and National Gallery of Art, Sixth Street and 762 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, (TDD), 202–789–3021); and the John F. DC 20565. Phone, 202–287–3343. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Education and Research Refer to Human Resources Department, statements on the Office of Fellowships Washington, DC 20566 (phone, 202– and Grants, the American Studies 416–8610). Program, the Center for Folklife Films The National Gallery of Art Programs and Cultural Studies, the circulates films, slide programs, videos, Woodrow Wilson International Center teaching packets, and videodiscs to for Scholars, and other offices. For schools and civic organizations information, write to the Directors of throughout the country. Contact the these offices at the Smithsonian Department of Education Resources, Institution, Washington, DC 20560. For National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC information regarding Kennedy Center 20565. Phone, 202–842–6273. Please Education Programs, both in write to request a free catalog of Washington, DC, and in nationwide programs. touring productions and training, contact Memberships For information about the John F. Kennedy Center for the membership in The Smithsonian Performing Arts, Washington, DC 20566 Associates Resident Program, write to (phone, 202–416–8000). The Smithsonian Associates, Room 3077, The Center for Advanced Study in the 1100 Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, Visual Arts was founded in 1979, as part DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–3030. The of the National Gallery of Art, to Resident program offers a wide variety of promote study of the history, theory, and performing arts events, courses, lectures, criticism of art, architecture, and seminars, symposia, films, and guided urbanism through the formation of a tours with noted specialists. Additional community of scholars. The activities of activities include a lecture series for the Center for Advanced Study, which retirees; classes, workshops, films, and include the fellowship program, summer camp sessions for young people; meetings, research, and publications, are and family and adult/child activities. privately funded. For further information, Membership benefits include a minimum contact the Center for Advanced Study 25-percent discount for most paid events in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of and admission priority; free lectures, Art, Washington, DC 20565. Phone, docent-led tours, films, and museum 202–842–6480; or fax, 202–842–6733. shop parties; a subscription to Employment Employment information Smithsonian magazine; monthly copies for the Washington, DC, metropolitan of the Associate, the award-winning area may be obtained from the Office of guide to Resident Associate activities; Human Resources, Smithsonian free parking on a space-available basis Institution, Suite 2100, 955 L’Enfant for members participating in The Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20560. Smithsonian Associate activities on Phone, 202–287–3100. Employment weeknights and weekends, with valid information for the following locations membership card and event ticket, may be obtained by contacting the beginning one-half hour before the organizations directly as follows: the announced starting time of the event, in Cooper-Hewitt, National Design the west lot of the National Museum of Museum, 2 East 91st Street, New York, Natural History; dining privileges at the NY 10028 (phone, 212–860–6868); Associates’ Court; and free admission to Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Personnel Department, 160 Concord Museum in New York City. Additionally, Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 (phone, all members receive discounts on 617–495–7371); Personnel Office, museum shop purchases; Smithsonian National Gallery of Art, Fourth Street Catalog items; Smithsonian Institution and Constitution Avenue NW., Press publications and records; and Washington, DC 20565 (phone, 202– subscription discounts on the Wilson 842–6298); or for the hearing impaired Quarterly and Air and Space magazine. QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 763

Members over the age of 60 receive about membership in the Circle of the additional discounts on most paid National Gallery of Art, please write to events. The Smithsonian Associates also The Circle, National Gallery of Art, offer volunteer opportunities and special Washington, DC 20565; or call 202– services for individuals with disabilities. 737–4215. For information about The Information about activities of the Smithsonian Associates National Friends of the National Zoo and their Program, contact The Smithsonian magazine, The Zoogoer, is available by Associates, Room 3045, 1100 Jefferson writing to them at the National Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. Zoological Park, Washington, DC Phone, 202–357–4800. National 20008. Phone, 202–673–4960. membership benefits include a Information about the national and subscription to Smithsonian magazine; local activities of Friends of the Kennedy information services from the Associates’ Center (including the bimonthly Kennedy Reception Center; eligibility to travel on Center News for members) is available at international and U.S. study tours and the information desks within the Center seminars guided by expert study leaders; or by writing to Friends of the Kennedy the opportunity to visit Washington, DC, Center, Washington, DC 20566. on a Smithsonian ‘‘Anytime’’ Weekend; Photographs Color and black and discounted tickets for Smithsonian white photographs and slides (including educational events nationwide; and illustrated slide lectures) are available to dining privileges in the Associates’ Government agencies, research and Court. The Contributing Membership educational institutions, publishers, and offers additional opportunities to support the general public from the Smithsonian. the Smithsonian Institution. Contributing Subjects include photographs of the members, at various levels, receive an Smithsonian’s scientific, technological, array of benefits—from receiving historical, and art collections as well as quarterly issues of Smithsonian pictures dating back more than 130 Institution Research Reports to being years taken from its photographic invited to the annual James Smithson archives. Information, order forms, and weekend and other special events. For price lists may be obtained from information about the Contributing Photographic Services, Smithsonian Membership, write to the address at the Institution, Washington, DC 20560. beginning of this paragraph. Phone, Phone, 202–357–1933. 202–357–1699. Publications The Smithsonian The Young Benefactors offers Institution Press and the Office of Public individuals between the ages of 25 and Affairs publish Smithsonian Year, the 45 the opportunity to increase their Institution’s annual report, along with a understanding of the Institution and to supplement that lists current titles. The participate in unique fundraising events Press also publishes books and studies which assist the Institution in achieving related to the sciences, technology, its goals. For additional information history, air and space, and the arts at a about the Young Benefactors, write to wide range of prices. A book catalog The Smithsonian Associates, Room 3045, and a list of studies are available from 1100 Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, Publications Sales, Smithsonian DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–1351. Institution Press, 1111 North Capitol The Circle of the National Gallery of Street, Washington, DC 20002. Phone, Art is a membership program which 202–287–3738. provides support for special projects for An events highlight advertisement, which Federal funds are not available. which appears on the next-to-last Friday Since its inception in 1986, the Circle of the month, is published in the has provided support for scholarly Washington Post by the Office of Public exhibitions, acquisitions of works of art, Affairs. publications, films, and symposia at the A brief guide to the Smithsonian Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in Institution, published in English and the Visual Arts. For more information several foreign languages; a visitor’s 764 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL guide for individuals with disabilities; the on Radio Station WGTS, 91.9 FM, Smithsonian Institution Research Reports Sundays at 7:00 p.m., November (containing news of current research through July. projects in the arts, sciences, and history Speakers The Bureau maintains a roster that are being conducted by Smithsonian of staff and volunteers available to speak staff); and Smithsonian Runner (a about the Center and its activities. newsletter about Native American- Education Office, National Gallery of related activities at the Smithsonian) are Art, Fourth Street and Constitution available from the Office of Public Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20565. Affairs, 900 Jefferson Drive SW., (They provide gallery talks and lectures.) Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– Phone, 202–842–6246. 357–2627. Museum aides give slide and musical For the monthly Calendar of Events of presentations in area schools and senior the National Museum of American Art citizen facilities. National Portrait and the Renwick Gallery, which also Gallery, Eighth and F Streets NW., gives information on museum Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– publications, write the Office of Public 357–2920. Affairs, National Museum of American Special Functions Inquiries regarding Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, the use of Kennedy Center facilities for DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2247. special functions may be directed to the For the newsletter Art to Zoo for Office of Special Events, John F. teachers from fourth through eighth Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, grades, write to the Office of Elementary Washington, DC 20566. Phone, 202– and Secondary Education, Room 1163, 416–8000. Arts and Industries Building, Theater Operations Inquiries regarding Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– the use of the Kennedy Center’s theaters 357–2425. may be addressed to the Booking The Gallery Shops, National Gallery of Coordinator, John F. Kennedy Center for Art (phone, 202–842–6466), makes the Performing Arts, Washington, DC available quality reproductions and 20566. Phone, 202–416–8000. publications about the Gallery’s Tours For tour information, contact the collections. The Information Office appropriate office listed below: provides a monthly Calendar of Events Education, Anacostia Museum, 1901 and several brochures including Brief Fort Place SE., Washington, DC 20020. Guide to the National Gallery of Art and Phone, 202–287–3369. An Invitation to the National Gallery of Division of Museum Programs, Art (the latter in several foreign National Museum of American Art, languages). Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Radio and Telephone Radio 20560. Phone, 202–357–3111. Smithsonian produces award-winning Curator of Education, National Portrait radio series and specials about the arts, Gallery, Eighth and F Streets NW., sciences, and human culture for national Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– broadcast on public radio. 357–2920. Dial-A-Museum, 202–357–2020; a Friends of the National Zoo, National taped telephone message with daily Zoological Park, 3000 Connecticut announcements on new exhibits and Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20008. special events. Phone, 202–673–4960. Smithsonian Skywatchers Report, 202– Education Office, National Gallery of 357–2000; a taped telephone message Art, Washington, DC 20565. Phone, with weekly announcements on stars, 202–842–6247. planets, and worldwide occurrences of Office of Education, National Museum short-lived natural phenomena. of Natural History, Tenth Street and Spanish listing of Smithsonian events, Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, call 202–633–9126. DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–3045. Concerts from the National Gallery is Office of Public Programs (tour broadcast 4 weeks after the performance scheduling), National Museum of QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 765

American History, Fourteenth Street and control for ticketed exhibitions and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, programs, and provides information to DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–1481; or those planning to visit the Washington, for the hearing-impaired (TTY), 202– DC, area. For more information, write to 357–1563. the National Gallery of Art, Office of Office of Education, Hirshhorn Visitor Services, Washington, DC 20565. Museum and Sculpture Garden, Eighth Phone, 202–842–6681; or for the Street and Independence Avenue SW., hearing impaired (TDD), 202–842–6176. Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– Volunteer Service Opportunities The 357–3235. Smithsonian Institution welcomes Department of Education, Smithsonian volunteers and offers a variety of service Environmental Research Center, RR4, opportunities. Persons may serve as tour Box 28, Edgewater, MD 21037. Phone, guides or information volunteers, or may 202–261–4190, ext. 42. Membership Department, Cooper- participate in an independent program in Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2 East which their educational and professional Ninety-first Street, New York, NY 10028. backgrounds are matched with curatorial Phone, 212–860–6868. or research requests from within the Office of Volunteer Services (tour Smithsonian. For information, write to scheduling), National Air and Space the Visitor Information and Associates’ Museum, Seventh Street and Reception Center, 1000 Jefferson Drive Independence Avenue SW., Washington, SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–1400. 202–357–2700; or for the hearing- Department of Education, National impaired (TTY), 202–357–1729. Museum of African Art, 950 Volunteers at the National Gallery of Independence Avenue SW., Washington, Art may select from providing such DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–4600. services as giving tours of the permanent Tour Information, Friends of the Gallery collection for children and adults Kennedy Center, Washington, DC in English or foreign languages; serving 20566. Phone, 202–416–8000. as art information specialists at the art Visitor Information The Smithsonian information desks throughout the West Information Center, located in the and East buildings; and assisting the original Smithsonian building, provides a library staff on assorted projects. For general orientation and assistance for further details, write the Education members and the public relative to the Division, National Gallery of Art, national collections, museum events, Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202– and programs. Write to the Smithsonian 842–6246; or for the hearing impaired Information Center, 1000 Jefferson Drive (TDD), 202–842–6176. For library SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, volunteering inquiries, phone 202–842– 202–357–2700; or for the hearing 6510. impaired (TTY), 202–357–1729. The Visitor Services Office of the For information about volunteer National Gallery of Art provides opportunities at the Kennedy Center, individual assistance to those with write to Friends of the Kennedy Center, special needs, responds to written and Washington, DC 20566. Phone, 202– telephone requests, supplies crowd 416–8000.

For further information, members of the press may contact the Office of Public Affairs, Smithsonian Institution, 900 Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2627. All other inquiries should be directed to the Smithsonian Visitor Information Center, 1000 Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700; or for the hearing impaired (TTY), 202–357–1729.

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