Space Museum's celebration of Women's History Month. 

 In September 1991, Wagstaff was the first woman to win 

 the U.S. National Aerobatic Championship. Her aircraft, 

 flight suit, and winning routine were included in the tem- 

 porary, one-year exhibition. 



March II 



■ Announcement Director Spencer Crew presented the 

 National Museum of American History's new mission 

 statement to staff: "The National Museum of American 

 History dedicates its collections and scholarship to inspir- 

 ing a broader understanding of our nation and its many 

 peoples. We create learning opportunities, stimulate im- 

 aginations, and present challenging ideas about our 

 country's past." 



March 1$ 



■ Exhibition and Symposium "A Mughal Hunt," an exhi- 

 bition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, explained how 



a scholar deduces the origin and provenance of a work of 

 art. The centerpiece of the exhibition was a recently ac- 

 quired 17th-century painting from India's Mughal 

 court. A symposium held in connection with the exhibi- 

 tion, "Artists and Traditions: New Studies of Indian 

 Paintings," was made possible by the generosity of Leon 

 B. Polsky and Cynthia Hazen Polsky. 



March 14-18 



■ International Workshop Sixty participants from 15 coun- 

 tries met in a workshop held at the Smithsonian Tropical Re- 

 search Institute Tupper Center to discuss long-term research 

 on tropical forests in Latin America. The workshop was or- 

 ganized by the STRI Center for Tropical Forest Science. 



Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden to wide press 

 attention with a talk by the British-born American art- 

 ist (b. 1951). Coe's narrative "message art" probes current 

 events and social issues. 



March 17 



■ Grant The National Museum of the American In- 

 dian National Campaign announced that philanthropist 

 and museum trustee David Rockefeller had contributed 

 $1 million to the museum. 



March ip 



■ Exhibition "More Than Meets the Eye," a Smithson- 

 ian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service exhibition 

 that investigates the sense of sight and provides hands- 

 on activities to show visitors how people adapt to vision 

 impairment and blindness, opened at the Maryland Sci- 

 ence Center in Baltimore. Following on the Americans 

 with Disabilities Act, this exhibition emphasizes that 

 different modes of communication and mobility abound 

 and that accommodations made for people with disabili- 

 ties make public programs of all kinds accessible to 

 everyone. 



March 20 



■ Research The landmark Red Shift Survey of galaxy 

 distribution was extended to the sky above the Southern 

 Hemisphere by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 

 astronomers and colleagues at four other observatories. 

 Maps published in The Astrophysical Journal (Letters) 

 show that the bubblelike patterns of large-scale struc- 

 ture originally seen in the northern survey continue in 

 the south. 



March 15 



March 21-22 



■ Publication The full-color journal Asian Art & Culture, 

 formerly known as Asian Art. began its seventh year— with 

 a new name; a new board of advisors, including artists, 

 writers, and scholars; and a new design. Published three 

 times a year by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Oxford 

 University Press, the journal examines new interpretations 

 of the arts, literature, and history of Asia. 



March 17— June Ip 



■ Exhibition "Directions— Sue Coe," an exhibition of 12 

 large-scale mixed-media drawings, went on view at the 



■ Outreach The National Museum of the American In- 

 dian Film and Video Center staff held a two-day advi- 

 sory meeting with 14 Native American media makers in 

 image, sound, and print to learn about the making and 

 uses of media related to the native community and the 

 museum. 



March 23 



■ Public Forum David Perkins, codirector of Project Zero 

 at the Harvard University' School of Education, delivered a 

 keynote address at a public forum on "Learning from 



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