Smithsonian Institution

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

1000 Jefferson Drive SW., Washington, DC 20560

Phone, 202-357-2700. Internet, www.si.edu.

Board of Regents:

The Chief Justice of the United States William H. Rehnquist

(Chancellor)

The Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney

Members of the Senate Thad Cochran, William Frist,

(vacancy)

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, Alan G. Spoon, Wesley Samuel Williams, Jr.

Officials:

The Secretary Lawrence M. Small

The Inspector General Thomas D. Blair

Director of Development Robert V. Hanle

Director, Office of Policy and Carole P. Neves

Analysis

Executive Assistant to the Secretary James M. Hobbins

and Director, Smithsonian Institution Building and Arts and Industries Building

Under Secretary for American Museums Sheila Burke

and National Programs

Counselor for Asian/Pacific- Franklin Odo

American Studies

Curator in Charge, Renwick Kenneth R. Trapp

Gallery

Director of National Programs Herma Hightower

Director of Operations James Bruns

Director, Anacostia Museum and Steven Newsome

Center for African American History and Culture

Director, Archives of American Richard Wattenmaker

Art

Director, Arts and Industries James M. Hobbins

Building

Director, Center for Folklife Richard Kurin

and Cultural Heritage

Director, Cooper-Hewitt National Paul Warwick Thompson

Design Museum

Director, National Air and Space Gen. John R. Dailey

Museum

Director, National Museum of Elizabeth Broun

American Art

Director, National Museum of Spencer Crew

American History

Director, National Museum of the W. Richard West, Jr.

American Indian

Director, National Portrait Marc Pachter

Gallery

Director, National Postal Museum Miguel Bretos, Acting

Director, Office of David J. Umansky

Communications/Public Affairs

Director, Office of Exhibits Michael Headley

Central

Director, Office of Government Nell Payne

Relations

Director, Office of Special Nicole L. Krakora

Events and Conference Services

Director, Smithsonian Center for (vacancy)

Education and Museum Studies

Director, Smithsonian Center for Refugio Rochin

Latino Initiatives

Director, Smithsonian Anna R. Cohn

Institution Traveling Exhibition Service

(SITES)

Director, Smithsonian's Michael Carrigan

Affiliates Program

Director, The Smithsonian Mara Mayor

Associates

Editor, Joseph Henry Papers Marc Rothenberg

Project

Under Secretary for Science J. Dennis O'Connor

Director, Museum Support Center (vacancy)

Director, National Museum of Robert W. Fri

Natural History

Director, National Science Douglas Lapp

Resources Center

Director, National Zoological Lucy Spelman

Park

Director, Office of Fellowships Roberta Rubinoff

and Grants

Director, Smithsonian Irwin I. Shapiro

Astrophysical Observatory

Director, Smithsonian Center for Lambertus Van Zelst

Materials Research and Education

Director, Smithsonian Ross Simons

Environmental Research Center

Director, Smithsonian Peter Cannell

Institution Press

Director, Smithsonian Marine Mary Rice

Station

Director, Smithsonian Tropical Ira Rubinoff

Research Institute

Under Secretary for Finance and Robert D. Bailey

Administration

Chief Technology Officer Dennis Shaw

Chief Financial Officer Alice C. Maroni

Deputy Comptroller Bob Mills

Director, Office of Equal Era Marshall

Employment and Minority Affairs

Director, Office of Human Carolyn Jones

Resources

Director, Office of Francine Berkowitz

International Relations

Director, Smithsonian Ethel W. Hedlin

Institution Archives

Director, Smithsonian Nancy E. Gwinn

Institution Libraries

General Counsel John E. Huerta

Ombudsman Chandra Heilman

Director of Facilities William W. Brubaker

Engineering

Director, International Art Museums Thomas Lentz

Division

Director, Freer Gallery of Art Milo C. Beach

and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Director, Hirshhorn Museum and James T. Demetrion

Sculpture Garden

Director, National Museum of Roslyn A. Walker

African Art

Chief Executive Officer of Gary Beer

Smithsonian Business Ventures

Director, Smithsonian Paul Johnson

Productions

Editor, Smithsonian Magazine Don Moser

Publisher, Smithsonian Magazine Amy P. Wilkins

Senior Business Officer Roland Banscher, Acting

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts \1\

Chairman James A. Johnson

President Michael M. Kaiser

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.

\1\ Administered under a separate Board of Trustees.

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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, history, and culture.

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The Smithsonian Institution was created by an act of August 10, 1846 (20 U.S.C. 41 et seq.), to carry out the terms of the will of British scientist James Smithson (1765-1829), who in 1826 had bequeathed his entire estate to the United States ``to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.'' On July 1, 1836, Congress accepted the legacy and pledged the faith of the United States to the charitable trust.

In September 1838, Smithson's legacy, which amounted to more than

100,000 gold sovereigns, was delivered to the mint at Philadelphia. Congress vested responsibility for administering the trust in the Secretary of the Smithsonian and the Smithsonian Board of Regents, composed of the Chief Justice, the Vice President, three Members of the Senate, three Members of the House of Representatives, and nine citizen members appointed by joint resolution of Congress. To carry out Smithson's mandate, the Institution:

--conducts scientific and scholarly research;

--publishes the results of studies, explorations, and investigations;

--preserves for study and reference more than 140 million artifacts, works of art, and scientific specimens;

--organizes exhibits representative of the arts, the sciences, and American history and culture;

--shares Smithsonian resources and collections with communities throughout the Nation; and

--engages in educational programming and national and international cooperative research.

Smithsonian activities are supported by its trust endowments and revenues; gifts, grants, and contracts; and funds appropriated to it by Congress. Admission to the museums in Washington, DC, is free.

Activities

Anacostia Museumand Center for African American History and Culture The Museum, located in the historic Fort Stanton neighborhood of southeast Washington, serves as a national resource for exhibitions, historical documentation, and interpretive and educational programs relating to African-American history and culture. The Museum is closed for renovation through fall 2001.

For further information, contact the Anacostia Museum, 1901 Fort Place SE., Washington, DC 20020. Phone, 202-357-2700.

Archivesof AmericanArt The Archives contains the Nation's largest collection of documentary materials reflecting the history of visual arts in the United States. On the subject of art in America, it is the largest archives in the world, holding more than 12 million documents. The Archives gathers, preserves, and microfilms the papers of artists, craftsmen, collectors, dealers, critics, and art societies. These papers include manuscripts, letters, diaries, notebooks, sketchbooks, business records, clippings, exhibition catalogs, transcripts of tape-recorded interviews, and photographs of artists and their work. The Archives are temporarily housed at 901 D Street NW., in Washington, DC.

For further information, contact the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560. Phone, 202-314-3900.

Cooper-Hewitt National DesignMuseum The Museum is the only museum in the country devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary design. Collections include objects in such areas as applied arts and industrial design, drawings and prints, glass, metalwork, wallcoverings, and textiles. Changing exhibits and public programs seek to educate by exploring the role of design in daily life. The Museum is open daily except Mondays and holidays. An admission fee of $8 is charged.

For further information, contact Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, 2 East Ninety-First Street, New York, NY 10028. Phone, 212-860-6868.

Freer Gallery ofArt The building, the original collection, and an endowment were the gift of Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919). The Gallery houses one of

the world's most renowned collections of Asian art, an important group of ancient Egyptian glass, early Christian manuscripts, and works by

19th and early 20th century American artists. The objects in the Asian collection represent the arts of East Asia, the Near East, and South and Southeast Asia, including paintings, manuscripts, scrolls, screens, ceramics, metalwork, glass, jade, lacquer, and sculpture. Members of the staff conduct research on objects in the collection and publish results in scholarly journals and books for general and scholarly audiences.

For further information, contact the Freer Gallery of Art, Jefferson Drive at Twelfth Street SW., Washington, DC 20560. Phone...