dia specialists, environmental educators, and museum 

 educators to explore how the world is shaped through 

 design and how New York City public schools can be 

 laboratories for design education across the curriculum. 



July 20-30 



■ Tour "Summer in Santa Fe," an Archives of Ameri- 

 can Art trip to Santa Fe for members, featured visits to 

 art galleries, museums, and private collections as well as 

 a visit to Durango, Colorado. 



July 20 



■ Milestone The National Air and Space Museum cele- 

 brated the 25th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar land- 

 ing. In addition to special tours, demonstrations, and 

 performances throughout the week, the museum, the 

 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and 

 the U.S. Postal Service unveiled two special commemo- 

 rative stamps. As pan of the museum's commemora- 

 tion, the plexiglass covering of the Apollo 11 command 

 module Columbia was removed for the first time in 

 nearly 20 years. Museum conservation staff inspected 

 and treated the capsule and its contents and then gave 

 the spacecraft a new protective covering. 



July 20 



■ Tour In a new international study tour through the 

 Northwest Passage organized by The Smithsonian Asso- 

 ciates, Secretary and Mrs. Robert McC. Adams led a 

 group of 68 Associates aboard the icebreaker Kapitan 

 Khlebnikov for 10 days from Provideniya, Russia, to Reso- 

 lute, Canada. 



July 21 



■ Exhibition "Directions — Jeanne Dunning," an exhi- 

 bition of 10 new color photographs incorporating body 

 imagery and two video works, went on view at the 

 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A talk by 

 the Chicago-based artist (b. i960) opened the exhibi- 

 tion, which later Traveled to the Museum of Contempo- 

 rary Art, Chicago. The exhibition closed November 2. 



July 24 



■ Visitor Service The Office of Public Affairs intro- 

 duced the Smithsonian Family Package, a collection of 

 useful information for adults who plan to visit the muse- 



ums with children or young adults. The free package 

 contains a guide to museums with exhibits and activi- 

 ties popular among children and young adults and 10 

 tips for visitors with children. The material, also issued 

 in Spanish and intended for use by both news media 

 and the public, is available from the Smithsonian Infor- 

 mation Center and OPA. 



July 30 



■ Exhibition "Gems of Hawaii: The Persis Collection 

 Stamps of Hawaii," a temporary philatelic exhibition, 

 opened at the National Postal Museum. The exhibition 

 was on view through October 15. 



July 30 



■ Public Program The National Postal Museum cele- 

 brated its first anniversary with two special philatelic 

 cancellations and public programs. 



August 



■ Fellowship Charles R. Reiger, exhibit builder at the 

 Kauffman Museum, North Newton, Kansas, began an 

 Office of Museum Programs Fellowships in Museum 

 Practice research project titled "An Analysis of Current 

 Approaches to Traveling Museum Exhibitions and the 

 Development of New Solutions for Use in the Produc- 

 tion of Such Exhibitions." He completed the fellowship 

 in October. 



August 



■ Training Program The New Opportunities in Ani- 

 mal Health Sciences (NOAHS) Center, headquartered 



at the National Zoological Park, employed its mobile re- 

 productive physiology laboratory to train more than 100 

 veterinarians and wildlife professionals and students in 

 India, Thailand, and Namibia in the latest biomedical 

 techniques vital to conserving disappearing species. 



August 



■ Construction Project The Office of Design and Con- 

 struction completed construction on the $24 million, 

 three-floor renovation of the landmark Alexander Ham- 

 ilton U.S. Custom House in New York City for the 

 George Gustave Heye Center of the National Museum 

 of the American Indian. 



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