October ip 



November 



m Endangered Species Endangered red wolves were 

 brought to the National Zoological Park to breed as 

 part of a reintroduction program. 



October 20 



■ Agreement The Smithsonian Early Enrichment Cen- 

 ter and IBM agreed to develop jointly a multimedia 

 computer software package with a museum-based cur- 

 riculum, using the many resources of the Smithsonian 

 and giving special emphasis to multicultural education. 



■ Premiere The Office of Quincentenary Programs, 

 working with the Organization of American States, or- 

 ganized the opening for the Americas Film Festival, 

 screening Yo, La Peorde Todas at Baird Auditorium, Na- 

 tional Museum of Natural History, and hosting a recep- 

 tion in the museum's Great Hall. 



October 22-24 



■ Course A pilot course in a new subject area, "Mechan- 

 ics of Materials and Structure of Cultural Objects," was 

 organized and conducted at the Conservation Analytical 

 Laboratory by Assistant Director for Conservation Re- 

 search Marion Mecklenburg. 



October 26 



■ Symposium The Archives of American Art organized 

 the symposium "Cult, Culture, and Consumers: Collect- 

 ing the Work of Self-Taught Artists in Twentieth- 

 Century America" in cooperation with the National 

 Museum of American Art. 



October 2&-November 24 



■ Milestone The Smithsonian Institution Man and the 

 Biosphere Biological Diversity Program marked its 

 fourth year of work in Bolivia with a regional training 

 course on ecology, conservation, and management of bio- 

 logical diversity of protected areas, which included ap- 

 proximately 25 participants and 15 national and 

 international instructors. 



November 



■ Cultural Diversity The Smithsonian celebrated 

 National American Indian Heritage Month with a va- 

 riety of performances, demonstrations, films, 

 children's activities, and speakers, including Beatrice 

 Medicine (Standing Rock Sioux) discussing "A Recur- 

 rent Theme: Women Are the Carriers of Indian 

 Culture." 



November 



■ Exhibition The Smithsonian Institution Traveling 

 Exhibition Service opened "Moscow: Treasures and Tra- 

 ditions," a major exhibition of art objects from Moscow 

 museums, in the International Gallery at the Smithson- 

 ian, one of only two U.S. venues. At the time of the 

 opening, U.S.S.R. Minister of Culture Nicolai Gubenko 

 visited the Smithsonian to discuss cooperative activities. 



November 



U Awards The Smithsonian's underground museum, 

 research, and educational complex and the Enid A. 

 Haupt Garden, both of which opened in 1987, were se- 

 lected for architectural honor awards by the Design 

 Awards Program of the General Services Administration. 



November— December 



■ Cultural Diversity In response to Under Secretary 

 Carmen Turner's request, the Office of the Assistant Sec- 

 retary for Public Service organized two focus meetings, 

 one on cultural pluralism (November 30) and the other 

 on education (December 4). 



November I 



■ Research Findings published in the November I issue 

 of Nature by National Museum of Natural History geol- 

 ogist Kenneth Towe suggest that the evolution and 

 worldwide use of oxygen respiration by early life forms 

 began at least a billion years earlier than scientists pre- 

 viously believed. 



November 1 



■ Exhibition The Directions series of small-scale solo 

 exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture 

 Garden was launched for the 1990—91 season with a se- 

 lection of set-up color photographs of artificial land- 

 scapes by the London-based artist Boyd Webb, followed 

 by metaphoric stuffed-animal sculptures from the "Half 



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