Office of the Secretary (S. Dillon Ripley), 1972-1984 Records.

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary

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The Secretary of the Smithsonian, appointed by the Board of Regents, is the Institution's chief executive officer. Secretaries have included Joseph Henry, 1846-1878; Spencer F. Baird, 1878-1887; Samuel P. Langley, 1887-1906; Charles D. Walcott, 1907-1927; Charles G. Abbot, 1928-1944; Alexander Wetmore, 1944-1952; Leonard Carmichael, 1953-1964; S. Dillon Ripley, 1964-1984; Robert McCormick Adams, 1984-1994; Ira Michael Heyman, 1994-2000; Lawrence M. Small, 2000-2007; Cristiâan Samper, Acting Secr...

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden was a gift to the nation from the financier and avid collector of modern art, Joseph H. Hirshhorn. Hirshhorn began his collecting with prints in 1917, and it became his lifelong passion. Hirshhorn's collection is best known for its nineteenth and twentieth century sculpture, including the works of Rodin, Picasso, Matisse, Giacometti, Calder, and Moore. He also collected widely and enthusiastically from the works of contemporary American painters, includi...

Smithsonian Institution

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The Smithsonian Institution was established on August 10, 1846, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. Originally organized as the United States National Museum.James Smithson (1765-1829), a British scientist, left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusio...

National Air Museum (U.S.)

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Scientific Event Alert Network (National Museum of Natural History (U.S.))

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The Scientific Event Alert Network (S.E.A.N.) was established in December 1975 to provide scientists with timely information concerning transient geophysical, astronomical, biological, and anthropological events. At that time, the functions and key personnel of the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory were transferred to S.E.A.N.. S.E.A.N. was placed under the administration of the Director's Office, National Museum of Natural History. In 198...

Museum Support Center.

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National Museum of African Art (U.S.)

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In 1964 a privately-funded Museum of African Art (MAA) was established by Warren M. Robbins, a former American foreign service officer, at the Frederick Douglass house in Washington, D.C. Robbins served as first Director of MAA, which mounted exhibitions of traditional African artwork and developed educational programs to foster public insight and appreciation of the cultures and artistic achievements of Africa. When MAA became a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution on August 13, 1...

Sackler, Arthur M., Collection of Oriental Art.

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Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

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Collecting area: Design, decorative arts, and textiles. The Cooper-Hewitt Museum is the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155474737 ...

National Zoological Park (U.S.)

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Originally conceived by S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian, as a place in which to house endangered species and to conduct research, the National Zoological Park (NZP) was established by an Act of Congress in 1889. A National Zoological Park Commission, comprised of the Secretary of the Interior, the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was formed under the Act to select and purchase land for ...

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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The Center for Astrophysics combines the resources and research facilities of the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under a single director to pursue studies of those basic physical processes that determine the nature and evolution of the universe. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution, founded in 1890. The Harvard College Observatory (HCO), founded in 1839, is a research institution of the Faculty of Ar...

Multiple-Mirror Telescope (SAO)

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Center for African, Near Eastern and Asian Cultures.

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