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the collections, visitors, and staff in the interim by maintaining the Capitol Hill townhouses which now how's 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 process of integrating this new Museum into the Smithsonian is proceeding, with particular emphasis placed over the planning period on augmenting the scholarly staff of the museum and securing acquisition funds for the selective growth of its collections.

     [[underline]]Museum of History and Technology[[/underline]]. Two very important goals of the Museum of History and Technology, the completion of the inventory of its collections and the upgrading of its exhibitions under the Smithsonian's Major Exhibition Program, are discussed elsewhere within this Prospectus. Other key objectives during this period are the further consolidation and strengthening of the Museum's new conservation efforts, steady improvement of collections storage conditions within the main building and at the Smithsonian Silver Hill facility, a revitalized research program for the professional staff and visiting scholars, continued streamlining of its organizational and administrative structure, and modest increases in its collection acquisition funds. These measure efforts will go far toward making the Museum of History and Technology a most effective resource for the study and teaching of American history.

     [[underline]]Other Programs[[/underline]]. Other priorities within History and Art through FY 1986 are largely related to improved physical facilities. Federal funding has now been secured for completion of Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden improvements to accommodate the handicapped. Enclosure of the Freer Gallery of Art's courtyard would do much to capture valuable additional public space. Construction of viable office and work space in the garage of the Fine Arts and Portrait Galleries Building As Well as the balcony area may also be necessary. Efforts to raise private funds for the development of the South Quadrangle, which will benefit both the Museum of African Art and the Freer Gallery of Art, will continue as will exploration for donors to support renovation of the Miller House. The latter adjoins the Carnegie Mansion and is part of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York. It's renovation is essential for full use of the Cooper-Hewitt collections. The development of adequate storage space and needed galleries for temporary exhibitions at the Cooper-Hewitt, as well as expanded educational facilities and office space, is projected. In addition, completing facade repairs to the Renwick Gallery is a high priority for this period. These various renovation efforts represent by far the largest need for direct new funding on the part of the History and Art bureaus of the Smithsonian. Progress on all of these facility requirements is expected by FY 1986. Additional information is contained in the Facilities chapter of this document.

     Significant adjustments (approximately 5 percent of the total History and Art federal appropriation between FY 1979 and FY 1982) have been provided in the Institution's budgets in order to begin moving toward the collection management and conservation needs of the Museum of History and Technology and the exhibition requirements of the Collection of Fine Arts. New resources, both federal and trust, in FY 1982 and beyond will be needed to continue