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■ Program The Archives Division completed preparation 

 of 260 agency histories and 788 records series, the first 

 phase of SIA's new system for intellectual control of its 

 holdings 



June 



■ Publication The Smithsonian American Art Museum re- 

 leased the first four in a series of eight souvenir books to 

 accompany Treasures To Go, a nationally circulating tour of 

 eight exhibitions from its permanent collection. The first 

 four books are Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian 

 American Art Museum, Lure of the West: Treasures from the 

 Smithsonian American Art Museum, American Impressionism: 

 Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and The 

 Gilded Age: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Mu- 

 seum. Copublished by the museum and Watson-Guptill, a 

 division of BPI Communications, the books cost $19.95 

 each and are available at bookstores and the various venues 

 hosting the exhibitions, as well as on the museum's Web site 

 at AmericanArt.si.edu. 



June 



■ Award The National Research Council of the National 

 Academy of Sciences releases its decadal survey report, "As- 

 tronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium." Four 

 Center for Astrophysics based (or originated) initiatives are 

 among those cited as vital new U.S. astronomical programs 

 for the first decade of this new millennium. 



June 1 



■ Web site launch The Program for Asian Pacific American 

 Studies launched its Web site, www.apa.si.edu, providing in- 

 formation on upcoming and past events, donor information, 

 and links to other Asian Pacific American organizations. 

 This site is updated monthly. 



June 1-2 



■ Research The National Museum of Natural History 

 Department of Vertebrare Zoology's Dr. James Mead and 

 Mr. Charley Potter went to the National Marine Fisheries 

 Service (NMFS) to review the cause(s) of the March 1 5 

 Bahamas beaked whale strandings. There were findings of 

 possible naval involvement in the strandings. The U.S. Navy 

 met with NMFS on June 5. 



June 1 -August 31 



■ Summer hours The National Museum of African Arr par- 

 ticipated in "Art Night on the Mall," offering nine musical 

 programs inrroducing audiences to African musicians and 

 instruments during extended summer hours on Thursday 

 nights. 



June 2 



■ Event The Smithsonian American Art Museum hosted a 

 reception to celebrate the public reopening of the refur- 

 bished Grand Salon at the museum's Renwick Gallery, one of 

 Washington D.C.'s most splendid public spaces. More than 

 170 paintings and sculptures from the museum's permanent 

 collection were installed in the Grand Salon, Octagon Room, 

 and the Great Stairhall to replicate a nineteenth-century col- 

 lector's picture gallery. 



June 3 



■ Exhibition The Adler Planetarium in Chicago premiered 

 the large version of the traveling exhibition "Hubble Space 

 Telescope: New Views of the Universe." A scale-model of the 

 Hubble Space Telescope is the focal point in the exhibition 

 that immerses visitors in the magnificence and mystery of 

 the Hubble mission. The exhibition was developed by SITES 

 and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). The exhi- 

 bition and its educational programs have been made possible 

 through the generous support of the National Aeronautics 

 and Space Administration Offices of Space and Science Edu- 

 cation, Lockheed Martin, and the Smithsonian Women's 

 Committee. 



June 4 



■ Exhibition "The Heroic Past: The Persian Book of Kings," 

 an exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery presented 38 

 works of art, including lavishly illustrated manuscripts as 

 well as tiles, glazed ceramic vessels, coins, and other objects 

 in silver and gold. The show examined how ancient Iranian 

 myths, legends, and history were combined to create the 

 most powerful literary and visual expression of kingship in 

 Iran. 



June 5 



■ Staff appointment Vidya Dehejia, a scholar of South and 

 Southeast Asian art was named deputy director and chief 

 curator at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler 

 Gallery. Dehejia previously served as the associate director 

 and chief curator of the galleries. Her new posirion was cre- 

 ated after the galleries' former deputy direcror Tom Lentz 

 was named the Smithsonian's director of International Art 

 Museums Division. 



June 7-9 



■ Management excellence The Board of Trustees of the 

 Archives of American Art holds its annual meeting and 

 associated events at The Getty Center and the Huntington 

 Library in California. 



June 7-11 



■ Program restaging The 1999 New Hampshire Festival pro- 

 gram was restaged at the Hopkinton State Fairgrounds in 



