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HISTORY AND ART

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History and Art at the Smithsonian is defined to embrace the following organization units: The Museums of American History, which is primarily concerned with American history and the history of technology; the Museum of American Art, which is the Smithsonian's musuem devoted to the history of American Art, along with its subsidiary, the Renwick Gallery, shich displays decorative arts and crfts; the Portraite Gallery, which studies American biographic history through the various media of portraiture; the Hirshhorn Museu and Sculpture Garden, which is the Smithsonian's musuem of modern art; the Freer Gallery of Art, which covers the broad fields of Near and Far Eastern art; the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, which focuses its programs on desing and holds one of the major decorative arts collections in the world; the Archives of American Arts, the nation's largest repository of documentary material pertinent to the study of American art histoy; the Joseph Henry Papers Project, which edits and publishes the papers of Joseph Henry, the first Secretary of the Smithsonian and a leading scientist in the mid-1800s; the Museum of African Art, which deals with traditiona art forms of the Continent of Africa; the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum and the Division of Performing Arts, which were transferred from the Public Services to the History and Art operational sector in the fall of  1982;a and the offoce of the Assistant Secretary of History and Art, which provides overall guidance and coordination.

The resoureces and programs of the Office of American and Folklife Studies are also administered by the Assistant Secretary for History and Art, as are the major Exhibition Programs and the Trust Fund Collections Acquisition Programs, These activities are contained in the Special Programs chapter to provide consistency with the FY 1984 budget to Congress.

Eac of the History and Art museums has its own physical plant, its own distinctive collections, and its own specialized staff, and, more importantly, its own character and sense of purpose. Although the Freer Gallery of Art opened more than 50 years ago, the preponderant activity in History and Art at the Smithsonian has been developed largely over the last twenty years, in most instancies following specific enactments by the Congress. The budgets for History and Art activities have grown at a measured pace, and most of the bureaus are now reasonably well funded to cary out at least the basic charge each has been given.

[[underlined]] Current Resources and Support [[/underlined]]
Current funding for History and Art activities consists of a mixture of appropriated federal funds, infrequent federal grants and contracts, nonappropriated restricted trust funds, and allocations of nonappropriated unrestricted trust funds. In  FY 1982, resources availabe to History and