June 12 



June 18-24 



■ Royal Visit Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko 

 of Japan, accompanied by former Prime Minister Kiichi 

 Miyazawa, visited the Freer Gallery of Art and toured 

 its East Asian painting conservation studio. It was the 

 first time in the gallery's history that a reigning Japan- 

 ese emperor had visited. 



June 13-17 



m Workshop The American Indian Museum Studies 

 program of the Office of Museum Programs sponsored 

 "Strategies for Cultural Interpretation and Educational 

 Programming for Tribal Museums and Cultural Cen- 

 ters," hosted in Kenai, Alaska, by the Kenaitze Indian 

 Tribe I.R.A. 



June 14 



■ Royal Visit Emperor Akihito of Japan visited with 

 20 ichthyologists from the Division of Fishes at the Na- 

 tional Museum of Natural History. Emperor Akihito, 

 who is an ichthyologist, examined some museum speci- 

 mens and spoke with the scientists about their current 

 research. Victor Springer of the Department of Verte- 

 brate Zoology gave the emperor an original pen-and-ink 

 drawing of Astrabe lacttsella that was published with the 

 original description of this species in 1901. In return, 

 the emperor presented two sets of books on Japanese 

 fishes to the Division of Fishes library. 



June IS 



■ Special Event The Detroit council and membership of 

 the Archives of American Art presented Auction 1994- 

 Starters and Fillers, a benefit for the Archives featuring 

 an auction of jewelry and tabletop collectibles. 



June 16-September u 



■ Exhibition "Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Traveling," one 

 version of a three-part collaborative touring exhibition 

 of mixed-media installations by this Cuban-born Ameri- 

 can artist (b. 1957), was on view at the Hirshhorn Mu- 

 seum and Sculpture Garden. The show was jointly 

 organized with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los 

 Angeles, and the Renaissance Society at the University 

 of Chicago. A talk by Gonzalez-Torres was one of sev- 

 eral public programs. 



■ Conference The Office of Special Events and Confer- 

 ence Services coordinated the 75th annual meeting of 

 the American Society of Mammalogists, cosponsored by 

 the National Museum of Natural History. Approxi- 

 mately 800 guests attended sessions held at the Na- 

 tional Museum of Natural History and at the S. Dillon 

 Ripley Center. 



June 21-July ip 



■ Public Program Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Mu- 

 seum presented the "Crosscurrents" lecture and concert 

 series, which focused this year on Native American de- 

 sign and the intersections between objects and cultural 

 meaning. Concerts in the Arthur Ross Terrace and Gar- 

 den featured live contemporary music and performances. 



June 21 



■ Press Conference The Office of Public Affairs held a 

 press conference on the results of an economic impact 

 study conducted for the Smithsonian by the Greater 

 Washington Research Center. The Smithsonian gener- 

 ated $6.7 billion in economic activity in the Washing- 

 ton, D.C., metropolitan area during 1993, according to 

 the study. It was the first such study in the Institution's 

 148 years. 



June 22 



■ Film Destiny in Space, an IMAX film that examines 

 space exploration by humans and robots, opened to the 

 public at the National Air and Space Museum. The 40- 

 minute film features footage taken during nine shuttle 

 flights and includes for the first time IMAX footage of 

 the space shuttle in flight around the Earth. 



June 22 



■ Lecture The Office of Fellowships and Grants and 

 the National Zoological Park cosponsored a public lec- 

 ture by Paul Ewald, who discussed his book based on re- 

 search done under a George E. Burch Fellowship. 



June 25- August 15 



■ Exhibition "The Tropical Nature of Venezuela," an 

 exhibition of photographs provided by the Venezuelan 

 government, was on display in the Amazonia Gallery at 



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