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collections, is under development now with the expectation that a pilot survey and a proposal for a full survey will be completed in the fall of 1980.

[[underlined]]Museum of African Art.[[/underlined]]  The Smithsonian's newest museum formally became part of the Institution on August 13, 1979.  Approximately $1,000,000 in federal funds annually should prove sufficient to operate a full range of museum programs, as augmented by continued fund-raising efforts from the private sector which have been vital to the success of the Museum to date.  Consonant with Senate views, in which the Institution concurs, a new location for the Museum is to be identified and steps taken to move the Museum into quarters better suited to its long-term development.  The present plan is to provide a new home for the Museum within the comprehensive development of the Quadrangle south of the Smithsonian Building.  Necessary steps will be taken to assure the safety of the collections, visitors, and staff in the interim by maintaining the Capitol Hill townhouses which now house the Museum with modest expenditures from the federal restoration and renovation budget.  Proceeds from the eventual sale of the Museum's Capitol Hill properties (after providing for the preservation of the Museum's principal structure, the Frederick Douglass House, under some appropriate aegis) will be used to help offset the costs of constructing the new building.  The prospect of integrating this new Museum into the Smithsonian, not just programmatically but physically, is a very welcome one, and one which will be a high priority for the Institution during this five-year period.  Construction, moving costs, and any differential in operating costs occasioned by such a development are under refinement at this time.

[[underlined]]Museum of History and Technology.[[/underlined]]  The Museum of History and Technology will have a new permanent director beginning in October 1979.  Among the most important responsibilities of this position, apart from collections management, will be to develop and carry out a master plan for the Museum's exhibits and to develop a revitalized research program for the professional staff and visiting scholars (including the possibility of creating within the Museum a Joseph Henry Institute, devoted to the history of American science and technology).  The Museum also will be strengthening its conservation efforts, begun in FY 1979, to assure the long-term care of its collections.

[[underlined]]Major Exhibitions.[[/underlined]]  Prior to and during the Bicentennial year, the Institution maintained a separate major exhibitions program.  Funded by Congress for specific, carefully planned exhibits whose costs were over and beyond that which could be financed by normal base resources, this program permitted coordinated research, collecting and display activities devoted to timely topics of particular visitor interest.  Many of the exhibits, so funded, are still open to the public and occupy a large portion of the exhibit space.  Following the Bicentennial, however, this program was phased out and its funding was rejustified and redirected to other programs, especially collection management efforts, which had been underemphasized.  Now, however, the need for major new resources to