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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.

[[underline]] Museum of African Art. [[/underline]] 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 successor 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.

[[underline]] Museum of History and Technology. [[/underline]] A new director was appointed to the Museum of History and Technology 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. To provide additional collections storage space, the Museum will occupy a portion of the Museum Support Center when it opens in FY 1983.

[[underline]] Trade Commission Building. [[/underline]] Located directly across F Street from the Fine Arts and Portrait Galleries Building, the Tariff (Trade) Commission Building is a superb historical structure worthy of restoration for public use. This building represents, for the Smithsonian, an ideal solution to space problems experienced increasingly by the Collection of Fine Arts, the Portrait Gallery, the Archives of American Art, and the library, archival, and study collections of these activities. It could also provide needed space for public exhibitions, lectures, and classes.