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Board of Regents: The Chief Justice of the United States WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST (Chancellor) The Vice President of the United States AL GORE Members of the Senate THAD COCHRAN, WILLIAM FRIST, DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN Members of the House of Representatives SAMUEL JOHNSON, ROBERT MATSUI, RALPH REGULA Citizen Members HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., BARBER B. CONABLE, JR., ANNE D’HARNONCOURT, LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR., HANNA˜ HOLBORN GRAY, MANUEL L. IBANEZ, HOMER A. NEAL, FRANK A. SHRONTZ, WESLEY SAMUEL WILLIAMS, JR. Officials: The Secretary LAWRENCE M. SMALL The Inspector General THOMAS D. BLAIR Executive Director for Development ROBERT V. HANLE Director, Office of Policy and Analysis CAROLE P. NEVES Executive Assistant to the Secretary and JAMES M. HOBBINS Director, Smithsonian Institution Building and Arts and Industries Building Under Secretary for American Museums, SHEILA BURKE Programs, and National Outreach 566 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL
Counselor for Asian/Pacific-American FRANKLIN ODO Studies Curator in Charge, Renwick Gallery KENNETH R. TRAPP Director, Anacostia Museum and Center STEVEN NEWSOME for African American History and Culture Director, Archives of American Art RICHARD WATTENMAKER Director, Arts and Industries Building JAMES M. HOBBINS Director, Center for Folklife and Cultural RICHARD KURIN Heritage Director, Cooper-Hewitt National Design (VACANCY) Museum Director, National Air and Space Museum GEN. JOHN R. DAILEY Director, National Museum of American ELIZABETH BROUN Art Director, National Museum of American SPENCER CREW History Director, National Museum of the W. RICHARD WEST, JR. American Indian Director, National Portrait Gallery (VACANCY) Director, National Postal Museum JAMES BRUNS Director, Office of Communications/Public DAVID J. UMANSKY Affairs Director, Office of Exhibits Central MICHAEL HEADLEY Director, Office of Government Relations (VACANCY) Director, Office of Special Events and NICOLE L. KRAKORA Conference Services Director, Smithsonian Center for ANN BAY Education and Museum Studies Director, Smithsonian Center for Latino REFUGIO ROCHIN Initiatives Director, Smithsonian Institution Traveling ANNA R. COHN Exhibition Service (SITES) Director, Smithsonian’s Affiliates Program MICHAEL CARRIGAN Director, The Smithsonian Associates MARA MAYOR Editor, Joseph Henry Papers Project MARC ROTHENBERG Under Secretary for Science J. DENNIS O’CONNOR Director, Museum Support Center (VACANCY) Director, National Museum of Natural ROBERT W. FRI History Director, National Science Resources DOUGLAS LAPP Center Director, National Zoological Park (VACANCY) Director, Office of Fellowships and Grants ROBERTA RUBINOFF Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical IRWIN I. SHAPIRO Observatory Director, Smithsonian Center for Materials LAMBERTUS VAN ZELST Research and Education Director, Smithsonian Environmental ROSS SIMONS Research Center Director, Smithsonian Institution Press PETER CANNELL Director, Smithsonian Marine Station MARY RICE Director, Smithsonian Tropical Research IRA RUBINOFF Institute QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 567
Under Secretary for Financial and (VACANCY) Administrative Services Chief, Information Technology Operations GEORGE VAN DYKE Chief, Information Technology Strategic JIM CONKLIN Planning Chief Financial Officer RICK JOHNSON Deputy Comptroller BOB MILLS Director, Office of Equal Employment and ERA MARSHALL Minority Affairs Director, Office of Human Resources CAROLYN JONES 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 Senior Facilities Services Officer RICHARD RICE Director, International Art Museums Division (VACANCY) Director, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur MILO C. BEACH M. Sackler Gallery Director, Hirshhorn Museum and JAMES T. DEMETRION Sculpture Garden Director, National Museum of African Art ROSLYN A. WALKER Chief Executive Officer of Smithsonian GARY BEER Business Ventures Director, Smithsonian Productions PAUL JOHNSON Editor, Smithsonian Magazine DON MOSER Publisher, Smithsonian Magazine RONALD WALKER Senior Business Officer ROLAND BANSCHER, Acting The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 1 Chairman JAMES A. JOHNSON President LAWRENCE J. WILKER National Gallery of Art 1 President ROBERT H. SMITH Director EARL A. POWELL III Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1 Director LEE H. HAMILTON Deputy Director MICHAEL H. VAN DUSEN Deputy Director for Planning and DEAN W. ANDERSON Management Chairman, Board of Trustees JOSEPH A. CARI, JR.
More than 150 years old, the Smithsonian Institution is an independent trust instrumentality of the United States that fosters the increase and diffusion of knowledge. The world’s largest museum complex, the Smithsonian includes 16 museums and galleries, the National Zoo, and research facilities in several States and the Republic of Panama. The Smithsonian holds more than 140 million artifacts and specimens in its trust for the American people. The Institution, a respected center for research, is dedicated to public education, national service, and scholarship in the arts, sciences, and history.
1 Administered under a separate Board of Trustees. 568 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL DATABASE CATALOG MAGAZINE MARKETING INITIATIVES SMITHSONIAN IMAX THEATERS CONCESSIONS RETAIL SHOPS, ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT LICENSING OFFICER FOR CHIEF EXECUTIVE BUSINESS VENTURES OF ART MUSEUM GARDEN GALLERY AFRICAN ART FREER GALLERY AND SCULPTURE ARTHUR M. SACKLER HIRSHHORN MUSEUM SECRETARY ADVISER TO THE DIRECTOR FOR MUSEUMS DIVISION INTERNATIONAL ART SAFETY CONTROL FINANCIAL PROGRAMS CONTRACTING ACCESSIBILITY ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND OFFICER RELATIONS CHIEF FINANCIAL INTERNATIONAL FACILITIES SERVICE MINORITY AFFAIRS DIVERSITY INITIATIVES POLICY AND ANALYSIS EQUAL EMPLOYMENT AND BUDGET SERVICES TREASURER PROTECTION PLANNING AND PHYSICAL PLANT SECRETARY ADMINISTRATION FOR FINANCE AND UNDER SECRETARY IMAGING/ OFFICER ARCHIVES LIBRARIES INSTITUTION
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The Smithsonian Institution was created Stanton neighborhood of southeast by an act of August 10, 1846 (20 U.S.C. Washington, serves as a national 41 et seq.), to carry out the terms of the resource for exhibitions, historical will of British scientist James Smithson documentation, and interpretive and (1765–1829), who in 1826 had educational programs relating to African- bequeathed his entire estate to the American history and culture. The United States ‘‘to found at Washington, Museum is closed for renovation through under the name of the Smithsonian spring 2001. Institution, an establishment for the For further information, contact the Anacostia increase and diffusion of knowledge Museum, 1901 Fort Place SE., Washington, DC among men.’’ On July 1, 1836, Congress 20020. Phone, 202–357–2700. accepted the legacy and pledged the faith of the United States to the Archives of American Art The Archives charitable trust. contains the Nation’s largest collection In September 1838, Smithson’s legacy, of documentary materials reflecting the which amounted to more than 100,000 history of visual arts in the United States. gold sovereigns, was delivered to the On the subject of art in America, it is the mint at Philadelphia. Congress vested largest archives in the world, holding responsibility for administering the trust more than 12 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: artists and their work. The Archives are —conducts scientific and scholarly temporarily housed at 901 D Street NW., research; in 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, 202–314–3900. more than 140 million artifacts, works of art, and scientific specimens; Cooper-Hewitt National Design —organizes exhibits representative of Museum The Museum is the only the arts, the sciences, and American museum in the country devoted history and culture; exclusively to historical and —shares Smithsonian resources and contemporary design. Collections collections with communities throughout include objects in such areas as applied the Nation; and arts and industrial design, drawings and —engages in educational prints, glass, metalwork, wallcoverings, programming and national and and textiles. Changing exhibits and international cooperative research. public programs seek to educate by Smithsonian activities are supported exploring the role of design in daily life. by its trust endowments and revenues; The Museum is open daily except gifts, grants, and contracts; and funds Mondays and holidays. An admission fee appropriated to it by Congress. of $8 is charged. Admission to the museums in For further information, contact Cooper-Hewitt Washington, DC, is free. National Design Museum, 2 East Ninety-First Street, New York, NY 10028. Phone, 212–860–6868. Activities Freer Gallery of Art The building, the Anacostia Museum and Center for original collection, and an endowment African American History and Culture were the gift of Charles Lang Freer The Museum, located in the historic Fort (1854–1919). The Gallery houses one of 570 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL the world’s most renowned collections collections record human conquest of of Asian art, an important group of the air from its beginnings to recent ancient Egyptian glass, early Christian achievements. The principal areas in manuscripts, and works by 19th and which work is concentrated include early 20th century American artists. The flight craft of all types, space flight objects in the Asian collection represent vehicles, and propulsion systems. Recent the arts of East Asia, the Near East, and blockbuster exhibitions at this most South and Southeast Asia, including popular museum have included ‘‘Star paintings, manuscripts, scrolls, screens, Wars: The Magic of Myth’’ and ‘‘Star ceramics, metalwork, glass, jade, Trek.’’ The Museum’s Langley Theater lacquer, and sculpture. Members of the and the 70-foot domed Einstein staff conduct research on objects in the Planetarium are popular attractions. The collection and publish results in Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is being scholarly journals and books for general built at Washington Dulles International and scholarly audiences. Airport and is scheduled to open in 2003, in time for the centennial of the For further information, contact the Freer Gallery of Art, Jefferson Drive at Twelfth Street SW., Wright brothers’ flight. Featured artifacts Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. will include a space shuttle and the B– 29 Enola Gay. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden From cubism to minimalism, For further information, contact the National Air the Museum houses major collections of and Space Museum, Sixth Street and Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– modern and contemporary art. The 357–2700. nucleus of the collection is the gift and bequest of Joseph H. Hirshhorn (1899– National Museum of African Art This 1981). Supplementing the permanent is the only art museum in the United collection are loan exhibitions. The States dedicated exclusively to portraying Museum houses a collection research the creative visual traditions of Africa. Its facility, a specialized art library, and a research components, collection, photographic archive, available for exhibitions, and public programs consultation by prior appointment. The establish the Museum as a primary outdoor sculpture garden is located source for the examination and nearby on the National Mall. There is an discovery of the arts and culture of active program of public service and Africa. The collection includes works in education, including docent tours, wood, metal, fired clay, ivory, and fiber. lectures on contemporary art and artists, The Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives and films of historic and artistic interest. includes slides, photos, and film segments on Africa. There is also a For further information, contact the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Seventh Street and specialized library. Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20560. For further information, contact the National Phone, 202–357–2700. Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357– National Air and Space Museum 2700. Created to memorialize the development and achievements of aviation and space National Museum of American Art The flight, the Museum collects, displays, Museum’s art collection spans centuries and preserves aeronautical and space of American painting, sculpture, folk art, flight artifacts of historical significance as photography, and graphic art. Special well as documentary and artistic exhibitions are presented each year. A materials related to air and space. major center for research in American Among its artifacts are full-size planes, art, the Museum has contributed to such models, and instruments. Highlights of resources as the Inventory of American the collection include the Wright Paintings Executed Before 1914; the brothers’ Flyer, Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit Slide and Photographic Archives; the of St. Louis, a Moon rock, and Apollo Smithsonian Art Index; and the Inventory spacecraft. The exhibitions and study of American Sculpture. The library, QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 571 shared with the National Portrait Gallery, remaking of our world through contains volumes on art, history, and technology. Exhibits draw upon strong biography, with special emphasis on the collections in the sciences and United States. The Old Patent Office engineering, agriculture, manufacturing, Building, home to both the National transportation, political memorabilia, Museum of American Art and the costumes, musical instruments, coins, National Portarit Gallery also houses the Armed Forces history, photography, Archives of American Art, with its vast computers, ceramics, and glass. Classic holdings of documentary material on cars, First Ladies’ gowns, musical American art and artists. The building is instruments, the Star-Spangled Banner currently closed for major renovation, flag, Whitney’s cotton gin, Morse’s during which time the museums are telegraph, the John Bull locomotive, sponsoring traveling special exhibits Dorothy’s ruby slippers from ‘‘The around the country. Hundreds of images Wizard of Oz,’’ and other American from the collection and extensive icons are highlights of the collection. information on its collections, For further information, contact the National publications, and activities are available Museum of American History, Fourteenth Street electronically (Internet, and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC www.nmaa.si.edu). There is a research 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. program for visiting scholars, and university interns are welcomed in many National Museum of the American museum departments. Indian The Museum was established in 1989, and the last of three locations is For further information, contact the National now being built. The collection of the Museum of American Art, Eighth and G Streets Museum is comprised of the collection NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357– 2700. of the former Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation in New York Renwick Gallery The Gallery is City. It is an institution of living cultures dedicated to exhibiting crafts of all dedicated to the collection, preservation, periods and to collecting 20th century study, and exhibition of the life, American crafts. It offers changing languages, literature, history, and arts of exhibitions of American crafts and the Native peoples of the Americas. decorative arts, both historical and Highlights include Northwest Coast contemporary, and a rotating selection carvings; dance masks; pottery and from its permanent collection. The weaving from the Southwest; painted Gallery’s grand salon is elegantly hides and garments from the North furnished in the Victorian style of the American Plains; goldwork of the Aztecs, 1860’s and 1870’s. Incas, and Maya; and Amazonian featherwork. For further information, contact the Renwick Gallery, Seventeenth Street and Pennsylvania For further information, contact the National Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– Museum of the American Indian, Suite 7102, 470 357–2700. L’Enfant Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–287–2523 or 202–357–2700. National Museum of American History In pursuit of its fundamental mission to National Museum of Natural History inspire a broader understanding of the Dedicated to understanding the natural United States and its people, the world and the place of humans in it, the Museum provides learning opportunities, Museum’s permanent exhibits focus on stimulates the imagination of visitors, human cultures, Earth sciences, biology, and presents challenging ideas about the and anthropology, with the most popular Nation’s past. The Museum’s exhibits displays featuring gemstones such as the provide a unique view of the American Hope diamond, dinosaurs, marine experience. Emphasis is placed upon ecosystems, birds, and mammals. To innovative individuals representing a celebrate the millennial anniversary of wide range of cultures, who have shaped the journey of Leif Ericson to America, our heritage, and upon science and the the Museum mounted a special 572 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL exhibition titled Vikings: The North philatelic collection, the largest of its Atlantic Saga. A new IMAX theater offers kind in the world, with more than 13 large-format nature films. The Museum’s million objects. The Museum is devoted encyclopedic collections comprise more to the history of America’s mail service, than 124 million specimens, making the and major galleries include exhibits on Museum one of the world’s foremost mail service in colonial times and during facilities for natural history research. the Civil War, the Pony Express, modern Museum departments include mail service, automation, mail anthropology, botany, paleobiology, transportation, and the art of letters, as entomology, vertebrate and invertebrate well as displays of the Museum’s zoology, and mineral sciences. priceless stamp collection. Highlights Doctorate-level staff researchers ensure include three mail planes, a replica of a the continued growth and value of the railway mail car, displays of historic collection by conducting studies in the letters, handcrafted mail boxes, and rare field and laboratory. U.S. and foreign issue stamps and covers. For further information, contact the National Museum of Natural History, Tenth Street and For further information, contact the National Postal Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20560. Museum, 2 Massachusetts Avenue NE., Washington, Phone, 202–357–2700. DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. National Portrait Gallery The Gallery National Zoological Park The National was established in 1962 for the Zoo encompasses 163 acres along Rock exhibition and study of portraiture Creek Park in Northwest Washington, depicting men and women who have DC. Established in 1889, the Zoo is made significant contributions to the developing into a biopark with live history, development, and culture of the animals, botanic gardens and aquaria, United States. The Gallery contains and artworks with animal themes. The nearly 18,000 works, including collection today animals ranging in size photographs and glass negatives. The and diversity from leaf-cutter ants to first floor of the Gallery is devoted to giraffes. The zoo’s beloved giant pandas changing exhibitions from the Gallery’s have recently died, but efforts are collection of paintings, sculpture, prints, underway to bring a new pair of pandas photographs, and drawings as well as to to the Nation’s Capital. Recent exhibits special portrait collections. On the include ‘‘Amazonia,’’ a simulated second floor are featured the permanent tropical rain forest; the ‘‘Pollinarium’’ collection of portraits of eminent exhibit; and the Reptile Discovery Americans and the Hall of Presidents. Center, featuring the world’s largest The two-story American Victorian lizards, Komodo dragons. Research on Renaissance Great Hall on the third floor genetics, animal behavior, and of the gallery houses a Civil War exhibit, reproductive studies has given the and is used for special events and public National Zoo a leadership role among programs. A large library is shared with the Nation’s conservation institutions. the National Museum of American Art and the Archives of American Art. The For further information, contact the National Zoo, 3000 Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, DC education department offers public 20008. Phone, 202–673–4717. E-mail, programs; outreach programs for [email protected]. Internet, www.si.edu/natzoo. schools, senior adults, hospitals, and 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. documentation, and presentation of grassroots cultural traditions. It maintains For further information, contact the National a documentary collection and produces Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F Streets NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. Smithsonian Folkways 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 QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 573
Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the China, South and Southeast Asia, and National Mall. Recent Folklife Festivals the ancient Near East that was given to have featured a range of American music the Smithsonian by Arthur M. Sackler styles, a number of State tributes, and (1913–1987). The Museum’s current performers from around the world. collection features Persian manuscripts; Admission to the festival is free. The 2- Japanese paintings; ceramics, prints, and week program includes Fourth of July textiles; sculptures from India; and activities on the National Mall. paintings and metalware from China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. The For further information, contact the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Suite 2600, 955 Sackler Gallery is connected by an L’Enfant Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, underground exhibition space to the 202–357–2700. neighboring Freer Gallery. International Center The International For further information, contact the Arthur M. Center supports Smithsonian activities Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. abroad and serves as liaison for the Smithsonian’s international interests. The Smithsonian Institution Archives The Smithsonian seeks to encourage a Smithsonian Institution Archives broadening of public understanding of acquires, preserves, and makes available the histories, cultures, and natural for research the official records of the environments of regions throughout the Smithsonian Institution and the papers of world. The International Center provides individuals and organizations associated a meeting place and an organizational with the Institution or with its work. channel to bring together the world’s These holdings document the growth of scholars, museum professionals, and the the Smithsonian and the development of general public, to attend and participate American science, history, and art. in conferences, public forums, lectures, For further information, contact the Smithsonian and workshops. Institution Archives, MRC 414, 900 Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357– For further information, contact the Office of 1420. Fax, 202–357–2395. International Relations, MRC 705, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– 357–1539. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory The Smithsonian Astrophysical Center for Museum Studies The Center Observatory and the Harvard College is an outreach office of the Smithsonian Observatory have coordinated research that helps museums in the United States activities under a single director in a fulfill their public service mission. It cooperative venture, Harvard- conducts training programs for museum Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The professionals on museum operational Center’s research activities are organized methods, management of collections, in the following areas of study: atomic exhibitions techniques, and educational and molecular physics, radio and activities. geoastronomy, high-energy astrophysics, For further information, contact the Center for optical and infrared astronomy, planetary Museum Studies, 900 Jefferson Drive SW., Room sciences, solar and stellar physics, and 2235, MRC 427, Smithsonian Institution, theoretical astrophysics. Research results Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202–357–3101. are published in the Center Preprint Arthur M. Sackler Gallery This Asian Series and other technical and art museum opened in 1987 on the nontechnical bulletins, and distributed to National Mall. Changing exhibitions scientific and educational institutions drawn from major collections in the around the world. United States and abroad, as well as For more information, contact the Smithsonian from the permanent holdings of the Astrophysical Observatory, 60 Garden Street, Sackler Gallery, are displayed in the Cambridge, MA 02138. Phone, 617–495–7461. Internet, cfa-www.harvard.edu. distinctive below-ground museum. The Gallery’s growing permanent collection Smithsonian Center for Materials is founded on a group of art objects from Research and Education The Center 574 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL researches preservation, conservation, millions of people who cannot view and technical study and analysis of them firsthand at the Smithsonian collection materials. Its researchers museums. Exhibitions on art, history, and investigate the chemical and physical science (including such exhibits as ‘‘Full processes that are involved in the care of Deck Art Quilts,’’ ‘‘Red, Hot, and Blue: art, artifacts, and specimens, and attempt A Salute to American Musicals,’’ and to formulate conditions and procedures ‘‘Hubble Space Telescope’’) travel to for storage, exhibit, and stabilization that more than 250 locations each year. optimize the preservation of these SITES also offers exhibits in its objects. In interdisciplinary International Gallery on the National collaborations with archeologists, Mall, in the S. Dillon Ripley Center anthropologists, and art historians, (located at 1100 Jefferson Drive SW.) natural and physical scientists study and For further information, contact the Smithsonian analyze objects from the collections and Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, MRC 706, related materials to expand knowledge Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560. and understanding of their historical and Phone, 202–357–3168. Internet, www.si.edu/ scientific context. organiza/offices/sites. For further information, contact the Smithsonian Smithsonian Marine Station The Center for Materials Research and Education, research institute features a state-of-the- Museum Support Center, Suitland, MD 20746. art laboratory where Station scientists Phone, 301–238–3700. catalog species and study marine plants Smithsonian Environmental Research and animals. Among the most important Center (SERC) The Center measures projects being pursued at the site is the physical, chemical, and biological search for possible causes of fish kills interactions in the environment and including pfiesteria and other organisms. determines how these interactions For further information, contact the Smithsonian control biological responses. SERC is Marine Station, 701 Seaway Drive, Fort Pierce, FL dedicated to increasing knowledge of the 34946. Phone, 561–465–6630. biological and physical processes that sustain life on Earth. The Center trains Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute future generations of scientists to address (STRI) The Institute is a research ecological questions of the Nation and organization for advanced studies of the globe. tropical ecosystems. Headquartered in the Republic of Panama, STRI maintains For further information, contact the Smithsonian extensive facilities in the Western Environmental Research Center, 647 Contees Wharf Hemisphere tropics. It is the base of a Road, Edgewater, MD 21037. Phone, 410–798– 4424. Internet, www.serc.si.edu. corps of tropical researchers who study the evolution, behavior, ecology, and Smithsonian Institution Libraries The history of tropical species of systems libraries of the Smithsonian Institution ranging from coral reefs to rain forests. include more than one million volumes On December 31, 1999, as required by (among them 40,000 rare books) with treaty, the Canal was transferred to strengths in natural history, art, science, Panama. The Government of Panama humanities, and museology. Many has stated that it wishes STRI to continue volumes are available through its activities on the isthmus beyond the interlibrary loan. year 2000. For further information, contact the Smithsonian For further information, contact the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Tenth Street and Constitution Tropical Research Institute, 900 Jefferson Drive Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– SW., MRC 555, Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 357–2139. Internet, www.sil.si.edu. E-mail, 202–786–2817. Fax, 202–786–2819. Phone [email protected]. (Panama), 011–507–62–6022. Internet, www.si.edu/stri. E-mail, [email protected]. Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) Since 1952, The John F. Kennedy Center for the SITES has been committed to making Performing Arts The Center is the only Smithsonian exhibitions available to official memorial in Washington, DC, to QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 575
President Kennedy. Since its opening in reproductions may be obtained through 1971, the Center has presented a year- the Publications Service. The Micro round program of the finest in music, Gallery is the most comprehensive dance, and drama from the United States interactive multimedia computer system and abroad. The Kennedy Center box in any American art museum. Thirteen offices are open daily, and general computers enable visitors to see in information and tickets may be obtained magnified detail nearly every work of art by calling 202–467–4600 or 202–416– on display in the permanent collection 8524 (TDD). Full-time students, senior and provide access to information about citizens over the age of 65, enlisted artists, geographic areas, time periods, personnel of grade E–4 and below, fixed pronunciations (with sound), and more. low-income groups, and the disabled For further information, contact the National may purchase tickets for most Gallery of Art. Phone, 202–737–4215. TTY, 202– performances at a 50-percent discount 842–6176. Internet, www.nga.gov. through the Specially Priced Ticket Program. This program is designed to Woodrow Wilson International Center make the Center accessible to all, for Scholars The Center is the Nation’s regardless of economic circumstance. official memorial to its 28th President. Visitor services are provided by the The Center’s mandate is to integrate the Friends of the Kennedy Center world of learning with the world of volunteers. Tours are available free of public affairs. Through meetings and charge between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on conferences, the Center brings scholars weekdays and between 10 a.m. and 1 together with Members of Congress, p.m. on weekends. Free performances Government officials, business leaders, are given every day at 6 p.m. on the and other policymakers. Through Millennium Stage in the Grand Foyer. publication of books and the Wilson Quarterly and a nationally broadcast For further information, contact the Kennedy Center. Phone, 202–467–4600. Internet, radio program, the results of the Center’s www.kennedy-center.org. research and meetings are made publicly available. National Gallery of Art The Gallery houses one of the finest collections in For further information, contact the Scholar the world, illustrating Western man’s Selection and Services Office, Woodrow Wilson Center, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 achievements in painting, sculpture, and Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20004– the graphic arts. The collections, 3027. Phone, 202–691–4170. Fax, 202–691–4001. beginning with the 13th century, are rich Internet, wwics.si.edu. in European old master paintings and French, Spanish, Italian, American, and Sources of Information British 18th- and 19th-century paintings; Contracts and Small Business Activities sculpture from the late Middle Ages to Information may be obtained from the the present; Renaissance medals and Director, Office of Contracting, bronzes; Chinese porcelains; and about Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 90,000 works of graphic art from the 20560, regarding procurement of 12th to the 20th centuries. The supplies; contracts for construction, collections are acquired by private services, etc.; and property management donation rather than by Government and utilization services for Smithsonian funds, which serve solely to operate and Institution organizations. maintain the building and its collections. Graduate and postgraduate research is The following independent conducted under a fellowship program; organizations should be contacted programs for schoolchildren and the directly: John F. Kennedy Center for the general public are conducted daily; and Performing Arts, Washington, DC 20566; an extension service distributes loans of and National Gallery of Art, Sixth Street audiovisual materials, including films, and Constitution Avenue NW., slide lectures, and slide sets throughout Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202– the world. Publications, slides, and 842–6785. Fax, 202–289–3937. 576 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL
Education and Research Write to the Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202– Directors of the following offices at the 842–6273. Please write to request a free Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC catalog of programs. 20560: Office of Fellowships and Grants, Media Affairs Members of the press Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, may contact the Smithsonian Office of National Science Resources Center; and Public Affairs, 1000 Jefferson Drive SW., Smithsonian Center for Education and Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– Museum Studies. 357–2627. Internet, newsdesk.si.edu. For information regarding Kennedy Memberships For information about Center education programs, contact the Smithsonian membership (Resident John F. Kennedy Center for the Program), write to The Smithsonian Performing Arts, Washington, DC 20566 Associates, MRC 701, 1100 Jefferson (phone, 202–416–8000). Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560. For information about the National Phone, 202–357–3030. For information Gallery fellowship and education about Smithsonian membership programs, contact the Center for (National Program), call 202–357–4800. Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, For information about the Contributing National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Membership, call 202–357–1699. For 20565. Phone, 202–842–6480; or fax, information about the Young 202–842–6733. Benefactors, call 202–357–1351. Electronic Access Information about The Circle of the National Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution is available Art is a membership program which electronically through the Internet, at provides support for special projects for www.si.edu. Websites with information which Federal funds are not available. about specific parts of the Smithsonian For more information about membership Insitution are listed bellow: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: in the Circle of the National Gallery of www.kennedy-center.org. Art, please write to The Circle, National National Gallery of Art: www.nga.gov. Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 20565. Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars: wwics.si.edu. Phone, 202–842–6450. Employment Employment information Information about activities of the for the Smithsonian is available from the Friends of the National Zoo and their Office of Human Resources, Smithsonian magazine, The Zoogoer, is available by Institution, Suite 2100, 955 L’Enfant writing to FONZ, National Zoological Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20560. Park, Washington, DC 20008. Phone, Phone, 202–287–3100. Recorded 202–673–4950. message, 202–287–3102. Information about the national and Employment information for the local activities of Friends of the Kennedy following locations may be obtained by Center (including the bimonthly Kennedy contacting the organizations directly as Center News for members) is available at follows: Personnel Office, National the information desks within the Center Gallery of Art, Fourth Street and or by writing to Friends of the Kennedy Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, Center, Washington, DC 20566. DC 20565 (phone, 202–842–6298; or Photographs Color and black-and- for the hearing impaired (TDD), 202– white photographs and slides are 789–3021); and the John F. Kennedy available to Government agencies, Center for the Performing Arts, Human research and educational institutions, Resources Department, Washington, DC publishers, and the general public from 20566 (phone, 202–416–8610). the Smithsonian photographic archives. Educational Resources The National A searchable database of images is Gallery of Art circulates films, slide available through the Internet. programs, videos, teaching packets, and Information, order forms, and price lists videodiscs to schools and civic may be obtained from the Office of organizations throughout the country. Imaging, Printing, and Photographic Contact the Department of Education Services, MAH CB–054, Smithsonian Resources, National Gallery of Art, Institution, Washington, DC 20560. QUASI–OFFICIAL AGENCIES 577
Internet, photos.si.edu. E-mail, Public Affairs offers a free bimonthly [email protected]. calendar of events, which can be Publications To purchase the ordered by calling 202–842–6662, or Smithsonian Institute’s annual report, through E-mail at [email protected]. The Smithsonian Year, call 202–357–2627. calendar and Brief Guide to the National The Smithsonian Institution Press Gallery of Art are also available at art publishes a range of books and studies information desks throughout the Gallery related to the sciences, technology, or by calling Visitor Services at 202– history, culture, air and space, and the 842–6691. arts. A book catalog is available from Radio and Telephone Dial-A-Museum, Publications Sales, Smithsonian Books or 202–357–2020 provides a taped Smithsonian Institution University Press, message with daily announcements on 1111 North Capitol Street, Washington, new exhibits and special events. DC 20002. Phone, 202–287–3738. To Smithsonian Skywatchers Report, 202– purchase a recording of the Smithsonian 357–2000 is a taped message with Folkways Recordings, call 800–410– weekly announcements on stars, planets, 9815. Internet, www.si.edu/folkways. and worldwide occurrences of short- A free brochure providing a brief lived natural phenomena. For a Spanish guide to the Smithsonian Institution is Listing of Smithsonian Events, call 202– published in English and several foreign 633–9126. languages. For a copy, call Visitor A five-minute program, ‘‘This Week at Information, 202–357–2700, or pick up the National Gallery,’’ airs every a copy at the information desks in the Saturday at 1:24 p.m. on WGMS, museums. A visitor’s guide for Washington, and WBJC, Baltimore. It individuals with disabilities is also features a calendar of events and available. interviews with art experts, artists, and Smithsonian Institution Research museum specialists about exhibitions, Reports, containing news of current the permanent collection, and various research projects in the arts, sciences, Gallery activities. In addition, selections and history that are being conducted by from Gallery concerts are broadcast at 9 Smithsonian staff, is produced by the p.m. on the second Sunday of each Smithsonian Office of Public Affairs, Smithsonian Institution Building, 1000 month on WGMS. Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC Speakers The Education Office of the 20560. Phone, 202–357–2627. National Gallery of Art provides gallery To request a copy of Smithsonian talks and lectures. For further Runner, a newsletter about Native information, contact the Education American-related activities at the Office, National Gallery of Art, Fourth Smithsonian, contact the National Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202– Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 842–6246. 20560. Phone, 800–242–NMAI. Special Functions Inquiries regarding For the newsletter Art to Zoo for the use of Kennedy Center facilities for teachers of fourth through eighth graders, special functions may be directed to the write to the Smithsonian Center for Office of Special Events, John F. Education and Museum Studies, Room Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1163, MRC 402, Arts and Industries Washington, DC 20566. Phone, 202– Building, Washington, DC 20560. 416–8000. Phone, 202–357–2425. Theater Operations Inquiries regarding The National Gallery shop makes the use of the Kennedy Center’s theaters available quality reproductions and may be addressed to the Booking publications about the Gallery’s Coordinator, John F. Kennedy Center for collections. To order, call 301–322– the Performing Arts, Washington, DC 5900 or 800–697–9359. Selected items 20566. Phone, 202–416–8000. are also available for sale on the website Tours For information about museum at www.nga.gov. The Office of Press and and gallery tours, contact the 578 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL
Smithsonian Information Center, 1000 Washington, DC, area. For more Jefferson Drive, SW., Washington, DC information, write to the National 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. School Gallery of Art, Office of Visitor Services, groups are welcome. Special behind-the- Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202– scenes tours are offered through the 842–6691. various memberships. Volunteer Service Opportunities The Visitor Information The Smithsonian Smithsonian Institution welcomes Information Center, located in the volunteers and offers a variety of original Smithsonian building, commonly known as ‘‘The Castle,’’ provides general interesting service opportunities. For orientation, through films, computer information, write to the Visitor interactive programs, and visitor Information and Associates’ Reception information specialists, to help members Center, 1000 Jefferson Drive SW., and the public learn about the national Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202– collections, museum events, exhibitions, 357–2700. TTY, 202–357–1729. For and special programs. Write to the information about volunteering with the Smithsonian Information Center, 1000 National Gallery of Art, write the Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC Education Division, National Gallery of 20560. Phone, 202–357–2700. TTY, Art, Washington, DC 20565. Phone, 202–357–1729. 202–842–6246. TDD, 202–842–6176. The Visitor Services Office of the For library volunteering inquiries, call National Gallery of Art provides 202–842–6510. For information about individual assistance to those with volunteer opportunities at the Kennedy special needs, responds to written and Center, write to Friends of the Kennedy telephone requests, and provides Center, Washington, DC 20566. Phone, information to those planning to visit the 202–416–8000.
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