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series of high impact smaller exhibits.  The renovated spaces will incorporate not only new historical concepts and ideas but also innovative exhibition techniques.  Increasing emphasis will be placed on human aspects of the making and use of objects in an effort to make the collections more relevant and meaningful to varied audiences.  In connection with these improved installations, the Museum will produce a variety of education publications, self-guiding tour materials, and informative audiovisual presentations to involve the public in the Museum's programs.

Complementing these central efforts, each History and Art unit will be seeking to maintain high performance in all program areas, devoting special attention to selected high priority initiatives.  For example, over the next several years, every History and Art bureau will continue to emphasize improved management of collections, from computerization of the records at the Museum of American History, Cooper-Hewitt, and the Archives of American Art, to the creation of loan collections for smaller museums throughout the country at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (drawing on the vast new materials from Mr. Hirshhorn's bequest); and the creation of a union catalogue of all Smithsonian holdings of materials from Africa at the Museum of African Art.  The Archives of American Art will intensify efforts to speed up processing, cataloguing and microfilming new collections, as well as purchase needed compact storage systems which will expand current storage capability by more than 40 percent.  Additional conservation capability will be added to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of American Art, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and the Freer Gallery or Art, while the Museum of American History, the Portrait Gallery and the Museum of American Art will acquire more badly needed storage equipment and space.  Other priorities include funding for exhibitions in all the museums with focus on refurbishing older exhibitions; exhibit catalogues, leaflets and checklists for visitors; and planning for collection storage space at the Institution's new Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland.  The Archives of American Art will develop fellowship and publications programs, the Hirshhorn Museum will add research assistance to the curatorial staff, and the Joseph Henry Papers Project will publish four more volumes of the papers of this eminent American scientist.  Finally, a continuing priority for each of the museums will be increased funding for acquisitions.

To meet the goals outlined for the next five years, it will be necessary throughout History and Art to add staff positions, primarily in collections management and conservation, exhibitions, and education.  To this end, budgetary adjustments within bases will be made and some new resources, both federal and trust, will be sought.

[[underlined]] Other Programs [[/underlined]].  Other priorities within History and Art through FY 1988 are largely related to improved physical facilities.  Enclosure of