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Board of Regents: The Chief Justice of the WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST () The Vice President of the United States Members of the Senate THAD COCHRAN, WILLIAM FRIST, PATRICK J. LEAHY Members of the House of Representatives SAMUEL JOHNSON, ROBERT MATSUI, RALPH REGULA Citizen Members BARBER B. CONABLE, JR., ANNE D’HARNONCOURT, , MANUEL L. IBAN˜ EZ, WALTER MASSEY, ROGER SANT, ALAN G. SPOON, PATTY STONESIFER, WESLEY SAMUEL WILLIAMS, JR. Officials: The Secretary LAWRENCE M. SMALL The Inspector General THOMAS D. BLAIR Director of External Affairs CLARK Director, Office of Policy and Analysis CAROLE P. NEVES Executive Assistant to the Secretary and JAMES M. HOBBINS Director, Building and and Industries Building Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating SHEILA BURKE Officer Director, Asian/Pacific-American Program

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Curator in Charge, (VACANCY) Director of National Programs HERMA HIGHTOWER Director, and Center STEVEN NEWSOME for African American History and Culture Director, Archives of American RICHARD WATTENMAKER Director, Arts and Industries Building JAMES M. HOBBINS Director, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Director, Cooper-Hewitt National Design PAUL WARWICK THOMPSON Museum Director, National Air and Space Museum GEN. JOHN R. DAILEY Director, National Museum of American BRENT GLASS History Director, National Museum of the W. RICHARD WEST, JR. American Indian Director, National Portrait Gallery MARC PACHTER Director, ALLEN KANE Director, Office of Communications/Public EVELYN LIEBERMAN Affairs Director, Office of Exhibits Central MICHAEL HEADLEY Director, Office of Government Relations NELL PAYNE Director, Office of Special Events and NICOLE L. KRAKORA Protocol Director, Smithsonian ELIZABETH BROUN Museum Director, Smithsonian Center for STEPHANIE NORBY Education and Museum Studies Director, Smithsonian Center for Latino ANNA CABRAL Initiatives Director, Smithsonian Institution Traveling ANNA R. COHN Exhibition Service (SITES) Director, Program HAROLD CLOSTER, Acting Director, The Smithsonian Associates MARA MAYOR Editor, Papers Project MARC ROTHENBERG Under Secretary for Science DAVID L. EVANS Manager, Museum Support Center LIZ DETRICK Director, National Museum of Natural CHRISTIAN SAMPER History Director, National Science Resources SALLY SCHULER Center Director, National Zoological Park LUCY SPELMAN Director, Office of Fellowships and Grants ROBERTA RUBINOFF Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical IRWIN I. SHAPIRO Observatory Director, Smithsonian Center for Materials PAULA DE PRIEST, Acting Research and Education Director, Smithsonian Environmental ROSS SIMONS Research Center Director, Smithsonian Institution Press DON FEHR Director, Smithsonian Marine Station VALERIE PAUL Director, Smithsonian Tropical Research IRA RUBINOFF Institute Chief Technology Officer DENNIS SHAW Chief Financial Officer ALICE C. MARONI

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Comptroller CATHERYN HUMMEL Director, Office of Equal Employment and ERA MARSHALL Minority Affairs Director, Office of Human Resources JAMES DOUGLAS, Acting Director, Office of International Relations FRANCINE BERKOWITZ Director, Smithsonian Institution Archives ETHEL W. HEDLIN Director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries NANCY E. GWINN General Counsel JOHN E. HUERTA Ombudsman CHANDRA HEILMAN Director of Facilities Engineering WILLIAM W. BRUBAKER Under Secretary for Art NED RIFKIN Director, and Arthur JULIAN RABY M. Sackler Gallery Director, Hirshhorn Museum and NED RIFKIN Sculpture Garden Director, National Museum of African Art SHARON PATTON Chief Executive Officer of Smithsonian GARY BEER Business Ventures Editor, Smithsonian Magazine CAREY WINFREY Publisher, Smithsonian Magazine AMY P. WILKINS The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 1 Chairman KENNETH M. DUBERSTEIN, Acting ALMA JOHNSON POWELL, Acting President MICHAEL M. KAISER 1 President VICTORIA P. SANT Director EARL A. POWELL III Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1 Director LEE H. HAMILTON Deputy Director MICHAEL H. VAN DUSEN Chairman, Board of Trustees JOSEPH GILDENHORN

The Smithsonian Institution is an independent trust instrumentality of the United States which comprises the world’s largest museum and research complex. The Smithsonian includes 16 and galleries, the National Zoo, and research facilities in several States and the Republic of . It holds more than 143 million artifacts and specimens in its trust for the American people. The Smithsonian is dedicated to public education, national service, and scholarship in the arts, sciences, history, and culture.

The Smithsonian Institution was created increase and diffusion of knowledge by an act of , 1846 (20 U.S.C. among men.’’ On July 1, 1836, Congress 41 et seq.), to carry out the terms of the accepted the legacy and pledged the will of British scientist faith of the United States to the (1765–1829), who in 1826 had charitable trust. bequeathed his entire estate to the In September 1838, Smithson’s legacy, United States ‘‘to found at Washington, which amounted to more than 100,000 under the name of the Smithsonian gold sovereigns, was delivered to the Institution, an establishment for the mint at Philadelphia. Congress vested

1 Administered under a separate Board of Trustees.

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ADVISOR TO THE SECRETARY DIRECT MARKETING RETAIL OPERATIONS BUSINESS VENTURES SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER FOR SMITHSONIAN BUSINESS VENTURES CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER EQUAL EMPLOYMENT DIVERSITY INITIATIVES AND MINORITY AFFAIRS COOPER-HEWITT, PORTRAIT GALLERY HIRSHHORN MUSEUM FREER GALLERY OF ART AFRICAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM ARTHUR M. SACKLER GALLERY FOR ART UNDER SECRETARY GENERAL COUNSEL POLICY AND ANALYSIS RESOURCES OPERATIONS IMAGING AND TREASURER OMBUDSMAN MANAGEMENT PUBLIC AFFAIRS CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTING COMPTROLLER AND OPERATIONS VISITORS' CENTER EXHIBITS CENTRAL COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION SERVICES FACILITIES RELIABILITY PROJECT MANAGEMENT SECRETARY HUMAN RESOURCES PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES FACILITIES ENGINEERING GOVERNMENT RELATIONS SYSTEMS MODERNIZATION FACILITIES MANAGEMENT FACILITIES PLANNING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACCESSIBILITY PROGRAM ENGINEERING, DESIGN, AND CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER PLANNING AND BUDGETING SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIAL EVENTS AND PROTOCOL AND SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION SECRETARIAT DEPUTY SECRETARY INSPECTOR GENERAL CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER ARCHIVES LIBRARIES MUSEUMS AND POSTAL MUSEUM MUSEUM STUDIES ANACOSTIA MUSEUM NATIONAL PROGRAMS ASSOCIATES PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS PROGRAM LATINO INITIATIVES CENTER AMERICAN INDIAN MUSEUM CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM

ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE PAN-INSTITUTIONAL PROGRAMS FOLKLIFE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT EXTERNAL AFFAIRS SPONSORED PROJECTS MUSEUM INSTITUTE EDUCATION FELLOWSHIPS NATIONAL ZOO OBSERVATORY RESEARCH AND ASTROPHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH CENTER NATIONAL SCIENCE RESOURCES CENTER TROPICAL RESEARCH SMITHSONIAN PRESS FOR SCIENCE CENTER FOR MATERIALS AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM UNDER SECRETARY

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responsibility for administering the trust more than 13 million documents. The in the Secretary of the Smithsonian and Archives gathers, preserves, and the Smithsonian Board of Regents, microfilms the papers of artists, composed of the Chief Justice, the Vice craftsmen, collectors, dealers, critics, and President, three Members of the Senate, art societies. These papers include three Members of the House of manuscripts, letters, diaries, notebooks, Representatives, and nine citizen sketchbooks, business records, clippings, members appointed by joint resolution exhibition catalogs, transcripts of tape- of Congress. To carry out Smithson’s recorded interviews, and photographs of mandate, the Institution executes the artists and their work. The Archives are following functions: —conducts scientific and scholarly housed at 750 9th Street NW., in research; Washington, DC. —publishes the results of studies, For further information, contact the Archives of explorations, and investigations; American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, —preserves for study and reference DC 20560. Phone, 202–275–2156. Internet, http:// more than 143 million artifacts, works of archivesofamericanart.si.edu/askus.htm. art, and scientific specimens; —organizes exhibits representative of Cooper-Hewitt National Design the arts, the sciences, and American Museum The Museum is the only history and culture; museum in the country devoted —shares Smithsonian resources and exclusively to historical and collections with communities throughout contemporary design. Collections the Nation; and include objects in such areas as applied —engages in educational arts and industrial design, drawings and programming and national and prints, glass, metalwork, wallcoverings, international cooperative research. and textiles. Changing exhibits and Smithsonian activities are supported public programs seek to educate by by its trust endowments and revenues; exploring the role of design in daily life. gifts, grants, and contracts; and funds The Museum is open daily except appropriated to it by Congress. Mondays and holidays. An admission fee Admission to the museums in of $8 is charged. Washington, DC, is free. For further information, contact Cooper-Hewitt Activities National Design Museum, 2 East Ninety-First Street, , NY 10128. Phone, 212–849–8400. Anacostia Museum and Center for Internet, www.si.edu/ndm. African American History and Culture The Museum, located in the historic Fort Freer Gallery of Art The building, the Stanton neighborhood of southeast original collection, and an endowment Washington, serves as a national were the gift of resource for exhibitions, historical (1854–1919). The Gallery houses one of documentation, and interpretive and the world’s most renowned collections educational programs relating to African- of Asian art, an important group of American history and culture. ancient Egyptian glass, early Christian For further information, contact the Anacostia manuscripts, and works by 19th and Museum, 1901 Fort Place SE., Washington, DC early 20th century American artists. The 20020. Phone, 202–633–1000. Internet, objects in the Asian collection represent www.si.edu/anacostia. the arts of East Asia, the Near East, and Archives of American Art The Archives South and , including contains the Nation’s largest collection paintings, manuscripts, scrolls, screens, of documentary materials reflecting the ceramics, metalwork, glass, jade, history of visual arts in the United States. lacquer, and sculpture. Members of the On the subject of art in America, it is the staff conduct research on objects in the largest archives in the world, holding collection and publish results in

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scholarly journals and books for general Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at and scholarly audiences. Washington Dulles International Airport, For further information, contact the Freer Gallery opened in December 2003, in time for of Art, Jefferson Drive at Twelfth Street SW., the centennial of the ’ Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–633–1000. flight. Featured artifacts include a space Internet, www.asia.si.edu. shuttle and the B–29 .

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture For further information, contact the National Air Garden From cubism to , the and Space Museum, Sixth Street and Independence Museum houses major collections of Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– modern and contemporary art. The 633–1000. Internet, www.nasm.si.edu. nucleus of the collection is the gift and National Museum of African Art This bequest of Joseph H. Hirshhorn (1899– is the only art museum in the United 1981). Supplementing the permanent States dedicated exclusively to portraying collection are loan exhibitions. The the creative visual traditions of Africa. Its Museum houses a collection research research components, collection, facility, a specialized art library, and a exhibitions, and public programs photographic archive, available for establish the Museum as a primary consultation by prior appointment. The source for the examination and outdoor sculpture garden is located discovery of the arts and culture of nearby on the . There is an Africa. The collection includes works in active program of public service and wood, metal, fired clay, ivory, and fiber. education, including docent tours, The Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives lectures on contemporary art and artists, includes slides, photos, and film and films of historic and artistic interest. segments on Africa. There is also a For further information, contact the Hirshhorn specialized library. Museum and Sculpture Garden, Seventh Street and Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20560. For further information, contact the National Phone, 202–633–1000. Internet, Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue www.hirshhorn.si.edu. SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–633– 1000. Internet, www.nmafa.si.edu. National Air and Space Museum Created to memorialize the development Smithsonian American Art Museum and achievements of aviation and space The Museum’s art collection spans flight, the Museum collects, displays, centuries of American painting, and preserves aeronautical and space sculpture, folk art, photography, and flight artifacts of historical significance as graphic art. A major center for research well as documentary and artistic in American art, the Museum has materials related to air and space. contributed to such resources as the Among its artifacts are full-size planes, Inventory of American Paintings models, and instruments. Highlights of Executed Before 1914; the Smithsonian the collection include the Wright Art Index; and the Inventory of American brothers’ Flyer, ’s Spirit Sculpture. The library, shared with the of St. Louis, a rock, and Apollo National Portrait Gallery, contains spacecraft. The exhibitions and study volumes on art, history, and biography, collections record human conquest of with special emphasis on the United the air from its beginnings to recent States. The Old Patent Office Building, achievements. The principal areas in home to both the Smithsonian American which work is concentrated include Art Museum and the National Portrait flight craft of all types, space flight Gallery, is currently closed for major vehicles, and propulsion systems. Recent renovation, during which time the blockbuster exhibitions at this most museums are sponsoring traveling popular museum have included ‘‘Star exhibits around the country. The Wars: The Magic of Myth’’ and ‘‘Star museum will reopen in July 2006. Trek.’’ The Museum’s IMAX Theater and Hundreds of images from the collection the 70-foot domed Einstein Planetarium and extensive information on its are popular attractions. The Museum’s collections, publications, and activities

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are available electronically (Internet, American icons are highlights of the www.saam.si.edu). collection.

For further information, contact the Smithsonian For further information, contact the National American Art Museum, Eighth and G Streets NW., Museum of American History, Fourteenth Street Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–633–1000. and NW., Washington, DC Internet, www.americanart.si.edu. 20560. Phone, 202–633–1000. Internet, www.americanhistory.si.edu. Renwick Gallery The Gallery is National Museum of the American dedicated to exhibiting crafts of all Indian The Museum was established in periods and to collecting 20th century 1989, and the building on the National American crafts. It offers changing Mall will open September 2004. The exhibitions of American crafts and collection of the Museum is comprised decorative arts, both historical and of the collection of the former Museum contemporary, and a rotating selection of the American Indian, Heye from its permanent collection. The Foundation in . It is an Gallery’s grand salon is elegantly institution of living cultures dedicated to furnished in the Victorian style of the the collection, preservation, study, and 1860’s and 1870’s. exhibition of the life, languages, For further information, contact the Renwick literature, history, and arts of the Native Gallery, Seventeenth Street and Pennsylvania peoples of the Americas. Highlights Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– include Northwest Coast carvings; dance 633–1000. Internet, www.saam.si.edu/collections/ masks; pottery and weaving from the exhibits/renwick25. Southwest; painted hides and garments National Museum of American History from the North American Plains; In pursuit of its fundamental mission to goldwork of the Aztecs, Incas, and Maya; and Amazonian featherwork. inspire a broader understanding of the United States and its people, the For further information, contact the National Museum provides learning opportunities, Museum of the American Indian, Suite 7102, 470 L’Enfant Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, stimulates the imagination of visitors, 202–633–1000. Internet, www.nmai.si.edu. and presents challenging ideas about the Nation’s . The Museum’s exhibits National Museum of Natural History provide a unique view of the American Dedicated to understanding the natural experience. Emphasis is placed upon world and the place of humans in it, the innovative individuals representing a Museum’s permanent exhibits focus on wide range of cultures, who have shaped human cultures, Earth sciences, biology, our heritage, and upon science and the and anthropology, with the most popular displays featuring gemstones such as the remaking of our world through , dinosaurs, insects, technology. Exhibits draw upon strong marine ecosystems, birds, and mammals. collections in the sciences and To celebrate the millennial anniversary engineering, agriculture, manufacturing, of the journey of Leif Ericson to America, transportation, political memorabilia, the Museum mounted a special costumes, musical instruments, coins, exhibition titled Vikings: The North Armed Forces history, photography, Atlantic Saga; the exhibition is now computers, ceramics, and glass. Classic traveling around the Nation. A new cars, icons of the American Presidency, IMAX theater offers large-format nature First Ladies’ gowns, musical instruments, films. The Museum’s encyclopedic the Star-Spangled Banner flag, Whitney’s collections comprise more than 125 cotton gin, Morse’s telegraph, the John million specimens, making the Museum Bull locomotive, Dorothy’s one of the world’s foremost facilities for from ‘‘The Wizard of Oz,’’ and other natural history research. The museum’s

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four departments are anthropology, mail service in Colonial times and mineral sciences, paleobiology, and during the Civil War, the Pony Express, systematic biology. Doctorate-level staff modern mail service, automation, mail researchers ensure the continued growth transportation, and the art of letters, as and value of the collection by well as displays of the Museum’s conducting studies in the field and priceless stamp collection. Highlights laboratory. include three mail planes, a replica of a railway mail car, displays of historic For further information, contact the National Museum of Natural History, Tenth Street and letters, handcrafted mail boxes, and rare Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20560. U.S. and foreign issue stamps and Phone, 202–633–1000. Internet, www.mnh.si.edu. covers. National Portrait Gallery The Gallery For further information, contact the National Postal was established in 1962 for the Museum, 2 Massachusetts Avenue NE., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–633–1000. Internet, exhibition and study of portraiture www.si.edu/postal. depicting men and women who have made significant contributions to the National Zoological Park The National history, development, and culture of the Zoo encompasses 163 acres along Rock United States. The Gallery contains Creek Park in Northwest Washington, nearly 18,000 works, including DC. Established in 1889, the Zoo is photographs and glass negatives. The developing into a biopark with live first floor of the Gallery is devoted to animals, botanic gardens and aquaria, changing exhibitions from the Gallery’s and artworks with animal themes. The collection of paintings, sculpture, prints, collection today has animals ranging in photographs, and drawings as well as to size and diversity from leaf-cutter ants to special portrait collections. On the giraffes. The zoo also has acquired a second floor are featured the permanent new pair of young giant pandas, Mei collection of portraits of eminent Xiang and Tian Tian. Recent exhibits Americans and the Hall of Presidents, include ‘‘Amazonia,’’ a simulated including the famous Gilbert Stuart tropical forest; the ‘‘Pollinarium’’ portrait-from-life of George Washington. exhibit; and the Reptile Discovery The two-story American Victorian Center, featuring the world’s largest Renaissance Great Hall on the third floor lizards, Komodo dragons. Research on of the gallery houses a Civil War exhibit, genetics, animal behavior, and and is used for special events and public reproductive studies has given the programs. A large library is shared with National Zoo a leadership role among the Smithsonian American Art Museum the Nation’s conservation institutions. and the Archives of American Art. The For further information, contact the National Zoo, education department offers public 3000 Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, DC programs; outreach programs for 20008. Phone, 202–673–4717. Internet, schools, senior adults, hospitals, and www.si.edu/natzoo. nursing homes; and walk-in and group Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage tours. The Gallery is currently closed for The Center is responsible for research, renovation until July 2006. documentation, and presentation of For further information, contact the National grassroots cultural traditions. It maintains Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F Streets NW., a documentary collection and produces Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–633–1000. Internet, www.npg.si.edu. Recordings, educational materials, documentary National Postal Museum The Museum films, publications, and traveling houses the Nation’s postal history and exhibits, as well as the annual philatelic collection, the largest of its Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the kind in the world, with more than 13 National Mall. Recent Folklife Festivals million objects. The Museum is devoted have featured a range of American music to the history of America’s mail service, styles, a number of State tributes, and and major galleries include exhibits on performers from around the world.

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Admission to the festival is free. The 2- acquires, preserves, and makes available week program includes Fourth of July for research the official records of the activities on the National Mall. Smithsonian Institution and the papers of For further information, contact the Center for individuals and organizations associated Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Suite 4100, 750 9th with the Institution or with its work. Street NW, Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– These holdings document the growth of 633–1000. Internet, www.folklife.si.edu. the Smithsonian and the development of International Center The International American science, history, and art. Center supports Smithsonian activities For further information, contact the Smithsonian abroad and serves as liaison for the Institution Archives, MRC 414, 900 Jefferson Drive Smithsonian’s international interests. The SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357– Smithsonian seeks to encourage a 1420. broadening of public understanding of the histories, cultures, and natural Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory environments of regions throughout the The Smithsonian Astrophysical world. The International Center provides Observatory and the Harvard College a meeting place and an organizational Observatory have coordinated research channel to bring together the world’s activities under a single director in a scholars, museum professionals, and the cooperative venture, Harvard- general public, to attend and participate Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The in conferences, public forums, lectures, Center’s research activities are organized and workshops. in the following areas of study: atomic and molecular physics, radio and For further information, contact the Office of International Relations, MRC 705, 1100 Jefferson geoastronomy, high-energy astrophysics, Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– optical and infrared astronomy, planetary 357–1539. sciences, solar and stellar physics, and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery This Asian theoretical astrophysics. Research results art museum opened in 1987 on the are published in the Center Preprint National Mall. Changing exhibitions Series and other technical and drawn from major collections in the nontechnical bulletins, and distributed to United States and abroad, as well as scientific and educational institutions from the permanent holdings of the around the world. Sackler Gallery, are displayed in the For more information, contact the Smithsonian distinctive below-ground museum. The Astrophysical Observatory, 60 Garden Street, Gallery’s growing permanent collection Cambridge, MA 02138. Phone, 617–495–7461. is founded on a group of art objects from Internet, cfa-www.harvard.edu/sao-home.html. China, South and Southeast Asia, and the that was given to Smithsonian Center for Materials the Smithsonian by Arthur M. Sackler Research and Education The Center (1913–1987). The Museum’s current researches preservation, conservation, collection features Persian manuscripts; and technical study and analysis of Japanese paintings; ceramics, prints, and collection materials. Its researchers textiles; sculptures from ; and investigate the chemical and physical paintings and metalware from China, processes that are involved in the care of Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. The art, artifacts, and specimens, and attempt Sackler Gallery is connected by an to formulate conditions and procedures underground exhibition space to the for storage, exhibit, and stabilization that neighboring Freer Gallery. optimize the preservation of these For further information, contact the Arthur M. objects. In interdisciplinary Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Avenue SW., collaborations with archeologists, Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–633–1000. anthropologists, and art historians, Internet, www.asia.si.edu. natural and physical scientists study and Smithsonian Institution Archives The analyze objects from the collections and Smithsonian Institution Archives related materials to expand knowledge

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and understanding of their historical and art laboratory where Station scientists scientific context. catalog species and study marine plants For further information, contact the Smithsonian and animals. Among the most important Center for Materials Research and Education, projects being pursued at the site is the Museum Support Center, Suitland, MD 20746. search for possible causes of fish kills Phone, 301–238–3700. including pfiesteria and other organisms.

Smithsonian Environmental Research For further information, contact the Smithsonian Center (SERC) The Center is the Marine Station, 701 Seaway Drive, Fort Pierce, FL leading national research center for 34946. Phone, 772–465–6632. Internet, understanding environmental issues in www.sms.si.edu. the coastal zone. SERC is dedicated to Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute increasing knowledge of the biological (STRI) The Institute is a research and physical processes that sustain life organization for advanced studies of on Earth. The Center, located near the tropical ecosystems. Headquartered in Chesapeake Bay, trains future generations of scientists to address the Republic of Panama, STRI maintains ecological questions of the Nation and extensive facilities in the Western the globe. Hemisphere tropics. It is the base of a corps of tropical researchers who study For further information, contact the Smithsonian the , behavior, ecology, and Environmental Research Center, 647 Contees Wharf Road, Edgewater, MD 21037. Phone, 443–482– history of tropical species of systems 2205. Internet, www.serc.si.edu. ranging from coral reefs to rain forests. Smithsonian Institution Libraries The For further information, contact the Smithsonian Smithsonian Institution Libraries include Tropical Research Institute, 900 Jefferson Drive SW., MRC 555, Washington, DC 20560. Phone, more than one million volumes (among 202–786–2817. Phone (Panama), 011–507–212– them 40,000 rare books) with strengths 8000. Internet, www.stri.org. in natural history, art, science, humanities, and museology. Many The John F. Kennedy Center for the volumes are available through Performing Arts The Center is the only interlibrary loan. official memorial in Washington, DC, to President Kennedy. Since its opening in For further information, contact the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Tenth Street and Constitution 1971, the Center has presented a year- Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– round program of the finest in music, 357–2240. Internet, www.sil.si.edu. E-mail, dance, and drama from the United States [email protected]. and abroad. The Kennedy Center box Smithsonian Institution Traveling offices are open daily, and general Exhibition Service (SITES) Since 1952, information and tickets may be obtained SITES has been committed to making by calling 202–467–4600 or 202–416– Smithsonian exhibitions available to 8524 (TDD). Full-time students, senior millions of people who cannot view citizens over the age of 65, enlisted them firsthand at the Smithsonian personnel of grade E–4 and below, fixed museums. Exhibitions on art, history, and low-income groups, and the disabled science (including such exhibits as ‘‘Full may purchase tickets for most Deck Art Quilts,’’ ‘‘Red, Hot, and Blue: performances at a 50-percent discount A Salute to American Musicals,’’ and through the Specially Priced Ticket ‘‘’’) travel to Program. This program is designed to more than 250 locations each year. make the Center accessible to all, For further information, contact the Smithsonian regardless of economic circumstance. Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, MRC 706, Visitor services are provided by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560. Friends of the Kennedy Center Phone, 202–357–3168. Internet, www.si.edu/ volunteers. Tours are available free of organiza/offices/sites. charge between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Smithsonian Marine Station The weekdays and between 10 a.m. and 1 research institute features a state-of-the- p.m. on weekends. Free performances

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are given every day at 6 p.m. on the institution of advanced study that Millennium Stage in the Grand Foyer. promotes scholarship in public affairs. For further information, contact the Kennedy The Center convenes scholars and Center. Phone, 202–467–4600. Internet, policymakers, businesspeople and www.kennedy-center.org. journalists in a neutral forum for open, serious, and informed dialogue. The National Gallery of Art The Gallery Center supports research in social houses one of the finest collections in sciences and humanities, with an the world, illustrating Western man’s emphasis on history, political science, achievements in painting, sculpture, and and international relations. the graphic arts. The collections, beginning with the 13th century, are rich For further information, contact the Scholar Selection and Services Office, Woodrow Wilson in European old master paintings and Center, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 French, Spanish, Italian, American, and NW., Washington, DC 20004– British 18th- and 19th-century paintings; 3027. Phone, 202–691–4170. Fax, 202–691–4001. sculpture from the late Middle Ages to Internet, www.wilsoncenter.org. the ; Renaissance medals and bronzes; Chinese porcelains; and about Sources of Information 90,000 works of graphic art from the Smithsonian Institution 12th to the 20th centuries. The Gallery represents a partnership of Federal and Contracts and Small Business Activities private resources. Its operations and Information regarding procurement of maintenance are supported through supplies, property management and Federal appropriations, and all of its utilization services for Smithsonian acquisitions of works of art, as well as Institution organizations, and contracts numerous special programs, are made for construction, services, etc., may be possible through private donations and obtained from the Director, Office of funds. Graduate and postgraduate Contracting, Smithsonian Institution, research is conducted under a fellowship Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– program; programs for schoolchildren 275–1600. and the general public are conducted Education and Research Write to the daily; and an extension service Directors of the following offices at the distributes loans of audiovisual materials, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC including films, slide lectures, and slide 20560: Office of Fellowships and Grants, sets throughout the world. Publications, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, slides, and reproductions may be National Science Resources Center; and obtained through the Publications Smithsonian Center for Education and Service. The Micro Gallery is the most Museum Studies. comprehensive interactive multimedia Electronic Access Information about computer system in any American art the Smithsonian Institution is available museum. Thirteen computers enable electronically through the Internet, at visitors to see in magnified detail nearly www.si.edu or www.smithsonian.org. every work of art on display in the Employment Employment information permanent collection and provide access for the Smithsonian is available from the to information about artists, geographic Office of Human Resources, Smithsonian areas, time periods, pronunciations (with Institution, Suite 6100, 750 Ninth Street sound), and more. NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–275–1102. Recorded message, 202– For further information, contact the National 287–3102. Gallery of Art. Phone, 202–737–4215. TTY, 202– 842–6176. Internet, www.nga.gov. Media Affairs Members of the press may contact the Smithsonian Office of Woodrow Wilson International Center Public Affairs, 1000 Jefferson Drive SW., for Scholars The Center was Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– established by Congress in 1968 as the 357–2627. Internet, newsdesk.si.edu. Nation’s official memorial to its 28th Memberships For information about President. The Center is a nonpartisan Smithsonian membership (Resident

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Program), write to the Smithsonian Smithsonian Institution Research Associates, MRC 701, 1100 Jefferson Reports, containing news of current Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. research projects in the arts, sciences, Phone, 202–357–3030. For information and history that are being conducted by about Smithsonian membership Smithsonian staff, is produced by the (National Program), call 202–357–4800. Smithsonian Office of Public Affairs, For information about the Contributing Smithsonian Institution Building, 1000 Membership, call 202–357–1699. For Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC information about the Young 20560. Phone, 202–357–2627. Benefactors, call 202–786–9049. To request a copy of Smithsonian Information about activities of the Runner, a newsletter about Native Friends of the National Zoo and their American-related activities at the magazine, The Zoogoer, is available by Smithsonian, contact the National writing to FONZ, National Zoological Museum of the American Indian, Park, Washington, DC 20008. Phone, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 202–673–4950. 20560. Phone, 800–242–NMAI. For the newsletter Art to Zoo for Photographs Color and black-and- teachers of fourth through eighth graders, white photographs and slides are write to the Smithsonian Center for available to Government agencies, Education and Museum Studies, Room research and educational institutions, 1163, MRC 402, Arts and Industries publishers, and the general public from Building, Washington, DC 20560. the Smithsonian photographic archives. Phone, 202–357–2425. A searchable database of images is Telephone Dial-A-Museum, 202–357– available through the Internet. 2020 provides a taped message with Information, order forms, and price lists daily announcements on new exhibits may be obtained from the Office of and special events. Smithsonian Imaging, Printing, and Photographic Skywatchers Report, 202–357–2000 is a Services, MAH CB–054, Smithsonian taped message with weekly Institution, Washington, DC 20560. announcements on stars, planets, and Internet, photos.si.edu. E-mail, worldwide occurrences of short-lived [email protected]. natural phenomena. For a Spanish Publications To purchase the Listing of Smithsonian Events, call 202– Smithsonian Institution’s annual report, 633–9126. Smithsonian Year, call 202–357–2627. Tours For information about museum The Smithsonian Institution Press and gallery tours, contact the publishes a range of books and studies Smithsonian Information Center, 1000 related to the sciences, technology, Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC history, culture, air and space, and the 20560. Phone, 202–633–1000. School arts. A book catalog is available from groups are welcome. Special behind-the- Publications Sales, Smithsonian Books or scenes tours are offered through the Smithsonian Institution University Press, various memberships. 1111 North Capitol Street, Washington, Visitor Information The Smithsonian DC 20002. Phone, 800–782–4612. To Information Center, located in the purchase a recording of the Smithsonian original Smithsonian building, commonly Folkways Recordings, call 800–410– known as ‘‘The Castle,’’ provides general 9815. Internet, www.si.edu/folkways. orientation, through films, computer A free brochure providing a brief interactive programs, and visitor guide to the Smithsonian Institution is information specialists, to help members published in English and several foreign and the public learn about the national languages. For a copy, call Visitor collections, museum events, exhibitions, Information, 202–633–1000, or pick up and special programs. Write to the a copy at the information desks in the Smithsonian Information Center, 1000 museums. A visitor’s guide for Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC individuals with disabilities is also 20560. Phone, 202–633–1000. TTY, available. 202–357–1729.

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Volunteer Service Opportunities The opportunities at the Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Institution welcomes write to Friends of the Kennedy Center, volunteers and offers a variety of Washington, DC 20566. Phone, 202– interesting service opportunities. For 416–8000. information, write to the Visitor Information and Associates’ Reception National Gallery of Art Center, 1000 Jefferson Drive SW., Calendar of Events To access on the Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– Web, go to www.nga.gov/ginfo/ 633–1000. TTY, 202–357–1729. geninfo.htm. To receive E-mail notices when new calendars go online, send John F. Kennedy Center for the your name, street address, and E-mail Performing Arts address to [email protected]. Contracts and Small Business Activities Concerts Concerts by world-renowned Contact the John F. Kennedy Center for musicians are presented Sunday the Performing Arts, Washington, DC evenings from October through June. For 20566. information, call the Concert Line at Education and Research For 202–842–6941. Internet, www.nga.gov/ information regarding Kennedy Center programs/music. education programs, contact the John F. Contracts and Small Business Activities Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Contact National Gallery of Art, Ofice of Washington, DC 20566. Phone, 202– Procurement and Contracts, 2000B 416–8000. South Club Drive, Landover, MD 20785. Electronic Access Information on the Phone, 202–842–6745. John F. Kennedy Center for the Education and Research For Performing Arts is available through the information about National Gallery Internet, at www.kennedy-center.org. internship programs, contact the Employment For information on Department of Academic Programs, employment opportunities at the John F. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 20565. Phone, 202–842–6257. Fax, contact the Human Resources 202–842–6935. For information about Department, Washington, DC 20566. research fellowship programs, contact Phone, 202–416–8610. the Center for Advanced Study in the Memberships Information about the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, national and local activities of Friends of Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202– the Kennedy Center (including the 842–6482. Fax, 202–842–6733. bimonthly Kennedy Center News for Educational Resources The National members) is available at the information Gallery of Art circulates slide programs, desks within the Center or by writing to teaching packets, videos, CD–ROMs, Friends of the Kennedy Center, videodiscs, and DVDs at no charge to Washington, DC 20566. individuals, schools and civic Special Functions Inquiries regarding organizations throughout the country. the use of Kennedy Center facilities for Contact the Department of Education special functions may be directed to the Resources, National Gallery of Art, Office of Special Events, John F. 2000B South Club Drive, Landover, MD Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 20785. Phone, 202–842–6273. Internet, Washington, DC 20566. Phone, 202– www.nga.gov/education/classroom/ 416–8000. loanfinder. Please write or e-mail Theater Operations Inquiries regarding [email protected] to request a free the use of the Kennedy Center’s theaters catalog of programs. may be addressed to the Booking Electronic Access Information on the Coordinator, John F. Kennedy Center for National Gallery of Art is available the Performing Arts, Washington, DC through the Internet, at www.nga.gov. 20566. Phone, 202–416–8000. NGAkids (www.nga.gov/kids) includes Volunteer Service Opportunities For interactive activities and adventures with information about volunteer works of art in the Gallery’s collection

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and an animated tale set in the Gallery’s Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202– Sculpture Garden. 842–6450. Internet, www.nga.gov/ginfo/ Employment For information on involved. employment opportunities at the Publications The National Gallery shop National Gallery, contact the Personnel makes available quality reproductions Office, National Gallery of Art, 601 and publications about the Gallery’s Pennsylvania Avenue South NW., 2nd collections. To order, call 202–842– Floor, Washington, DC 20004. Phone, 6002. Selected items are also available 202–842–6282. TDD, 202–842–6176. for sale on the Web site at Internet, www.nga.gov/resources/employ. www.nga.gov/shop. The Office of Press Family Programs The Gallery offers a and Public Information offers a free full range of free family programs bimonthly calendar of events, which can suitable for children ages 4 and up: be ordered by calling 202–842–6662, or Family Workshops (preregistration through e-mail at [email protected]. The required), phone, 202–789–3030, calendar and Brief Guide to the National Internet, www.nga.gov/programs/ Gallery of Art are also available at art family.htm; Stories in Art, phone 202– information desks throughout the Gallery 842–6880; and Children’s Film, phone, or by calling Visitor Services at 202– 202–789–4995. For detailed information, 842–6691. visit www.nga.gov/kids. Radio A 3-minute program, ‘‘This Films An ongoing free program of Week at the National Gallery,’’ airs independet films, major retrospectives, Sundays at 10:43 a.m. on WGMS, 103.5 classic cinema, and area premieres are FM, Washington, and Saturday at 12:55 presented. Visiting filmmakers and p.m. on WBJC, 91.5 FM, . It scholars are often invited to discuss films features interviews with art experts, with the audience following screenings. artists, and museum specialists about The auditorium is equipped with an FM exhibitions, the permanent collection, wireless listening system for the hearing and various Gallery activities. impaired. Receivers, ear phones, and Tours The Education Division of the neck loops are available at the East National Gallery of Art offers gallery Building Art Information Desk near the talks and lectures. For further main entrance. Call 202–842–6799 for information, contact the Education current information. Internet, Division, National Gallery of Art, Fourth www.nga.gov/programs/film. Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Library The Gallery’s collection of Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202– more than 250,000 books and 842–6247 or 202–842–6179. Internet, periodicals on the history, theory, and www.nga.gov/programs/tours. criticism of art and architecture Visitor Services The Visitor Services emphasizes Western art from the Middle Office of the National Gallery of Art Ages to the present, and American art provides individual assistance to those from the Colonial era to the present. with special needs, responds to written Adult researchers may gain access to the and telephone requests, and provides library by calling 202–842–6511. information to those planning to visit the Internet, www.nga.gov/resources/ Washington, DC, area. For more dldesc.htm. The library is closed information, write to the National Saturdays, Sundays, and all Federal Gallery of Art, Office of Visitor Services, holidays. Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202– Memberships The Circle of the 842–6691. Internet, www.nga.gov/ginfo/ National Gallery of Art is a membership disabled. program which provides support for Volunteer Opportunities For special projects for which Federal funds information about volunteering at the are not available. For more information National Gallery of Art, write the about membership in the Circle of the Education Division, National Gallery of National Gallery of Art, please write to Art, Washington, DC 20565. Phone, The Circle, National Gallery of Art, 202–842–6247. TDD, 202–842–6176.

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For library volunteering inquiries, call pursue their research and writing at the 202–842–6510. Internet, www.nga.gov/ Center, while interacting with ginfo/involved. policymakers in Washington. The Center Works on Paper Works of art on paper also invites public policy scholars and that are not on view may be seen by senior scholars from a variety of appointment on weekdays; call 202– disciplines to conduct research for 842–6380. The Matisse cutouts are on varying lengths of time in residence. For view in the Tower from 10:00 a.m. to more information, call 202–691–4213. 2:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, The Center also has a year-round need and from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on for interns to assist the program and Sunday. projects staff and to act as research assistants for scholars and fellows. For Woodrow Wilson Center for more information, call 202–691–4053. International Scholars Media Affairs Members of the press Electronic Access Information on the may contact the Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson Center for Center at 202–691–4016. International Scholars is available Publications The Woodrow Wilson through the Internet, at Center publishes a monthly newsletter www.wilsoncenter.org. Centerpoint, and books written by staff Employment For information on and visiting scholars and fellows, employment opportunities at the through the Wilson Center Press. It also Woodrow Wilson Center, contact the produces Dialogue, a weekly radio and Office of Human Resources, One television program about national and Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 international affairs, history, and culture. Pennsylvania Avenue. NW., Washington, For more information, call 202–691– DC 2004–3027. Internet, 4016. www.wilsoncenter.org/hr/index.htm. Visitor Services To hear a listing of Fellowships and Internships The events at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Woodrow Wilson Center offers call 202–691–4188. All events, unless residential fellowships that allow otherwise noted, are free and open to academics, public officials, journalists, the public. Please note that a photo business professionals, and others to identification is required for entry.

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