audiences at Panama City's Parque Natural 

 Metropolitano. 



to provide them with experience working in a conserva- 

 tion laboratory. 



May 30 



June 1 



■ Interactive Audio Tour Using a hand-held computer 

 developed by the San Francisco— based company Visible 

 Interactives, visitors to the National Air and Space 

 Museum were able, for the first time, to program their 

 own tours. 



June 



■ Awards The 1996 New York Festivals International 

 Radio Competition awarded two Gold Medals to Black 

 Radio: Telling It Like It Was, a Smithsonian Productions 

 series tracing the history of African Americans on radio. 



June 



■ Exhibit The National Postal Museum opened "Artis- 

 tic License: The Federal Duck Stamp Story" in the 

 Jeanette Cantrell Rudy Gallery. 



June 



■ Exhibition The Office of Exhibits Central guided 

 the didactic and visual realization of the Jeanette 

 Cantrell Rudy Federal Duck Stamp Gallery, working 

 especially closely with Postal Museum Director James 

 Bruns and his team as well as with Mrs. Rudy. The ex- 

 hibition involved extensive modelmaking, case furni- 

 ture fabrication, diorama work, and project 

 management. 



June 



■ Research The Smithsonian Tropical Research In- 

 stitute research vessel, the R.V Urraca. completed the 

 installation of an oceanographic winch and "A" frame in 

 Louisiana and returned to Panama. 



June— August 



■ Conservation Intern The National Museum of 

 African Art's conservation department was selected to 

 host a summer intern as part of a new program spon- 

 sored by the Foundation of the American Institute for 

 Conservation and funded by the J. Paul Getty Trust. 

 The program was set up to increase awareness of the 

 conservation profession among minority students and 



■ Electronic Publication On June I, 1996 the Smith- 

 sonian Institution Libraries published its first Electronic 

 Publication (http://ti-ww.sil.si.edu/elecedns.htm). The il- 

 lustrated work by John C. Ewers, "Hair Pipes in Plains 

 Indian Adornment," was originally published as 

 Anthropological papers, No. 50 (1957), Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, Bulletin 164. Ewers was honored 

 by the Libraries at a Book Party held on May 29. 



June 7 



■ Workshop The Center for Museum Studies produced 

 "Telling Your Story with Stuff," a workshop for market- 

 ing executives from Kraft Foods, in conjunction with 

 The Smithsonian Associates. 



June 7 



■ Special Event To promote the Smithsonian as a 

 primary USA travel destination for foreign visitors, 

 VIARC co-hosted a reception for major international 

 tour operators at NMAH with the Washington, DC 

 Convention & Visitors Association. 



June J— January 5 



■ Exhibition The National Museum of American Art 

 unveiled its recently acquired sculpture, "The Death of 

 Cleopatra" (1876), to the public. Lost for more than a 

 century, this masterwork by African American artist Ed- 

 monia Lewis was discovered in a salvage yard in 

 Chicago and rescued from continued deterioration by 

 the Historical Society of Forest Park. Illinois. The His- 

 torical Society donated the work to NMAA and, after a 

 two-year restoration, the stunning sculpture went on 

 view with four other works by Lewis from the 

 Museum's collection in "Lost and Found: Edmonia 

 Lewis's Cleopatra." 



June 10 



■ Internship Initiative The Museum Intern Partnership 

 Program, sponsored by the Center for Museum Studies 

 began. 1996 partnerships are between the National Air 

 and Space Museum and the National Museum of the 

 Tuskegee Airmen in Detroit and between the Archives 



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