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For the Office of Horticulture, new landscaped areas, including the East Garden and the Garden for the Handicapped, both adjacent to the Smithsonian's "Castle" Building and the Arts and Industries Building, will create a need for an extension of services, as will the landscaping associated with the Museum Support Center.  This Office also in 1980 designed and installed the Victorian Horticultural and Floraculture Exhibition in the Arts and Industries Building.  New efforts in exhibits, coupled with research and propagation efforts for special collections of rare floral species, will enhance the dimensions of the horticulture function in coming years.

The Office of International Activities will support arrangements for research programs being planned in cooperation with foreign scientific agencies and organizations and develop new programs to be carried out with similar organizations in the People's Republic of China.

A substantial increase in federal appropriations available to the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) is being planned for FY 1982-86 to help keep rental charges down for consumers of this popular service, to reduce the effects of inflation on production and transportation cost of traveling exhibits, and to strengthen the registrarial, education and publications functions of the program.  During FY 1980, the institution began planning for circulating a series of major exhibitions from abroad, and initial contacts have been made with several South American countries to encourage their use of SITES' offerings.  The ability to attract major offerings from foreign countries and institutions is limited by the inability of the Institution to reciprocate with exhibitions organized primarily for showing abroad and by the lack of funds to pay for shipping such exhibitions.  The Institution will continue to explore ways to overcome these obstacles in the years ahead.

[[underlined]] Museum Programs Resource Growth [[/underlined]]

By FY 1986, Museum Program resources may approach $15,400,000 from present levels of $10,000,000.  Federal appropriations will account for most of the growth and be concentrated in the Conservation Analytical Laboratory activities related to the Museum Support Center, the Traveling Exhibition Service, and for horticulture and library operations.  Unrestricted fund support for traveling exhibitions is also projected to increase substantially during the planning period.