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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, 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. A more intense review and consideration of long-term facility needs of the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum will take place, particularly with regard to possible sites and other factors related to the future growth of the Poplar Point area in the city of Anacostia. Enclosure of the Freer Gallery of Art's courtyard would do much to capture a valuable additional public space, as will remodeling the Freer's lower level to accommodate the physical connection with the first level below grade of the new Quadrangle. Construction of viable office and work space in the garage of the American Art and Portrait Gallery Building, as well as the balcony area, will be necessary. Efforts to raise private funds for the development of the 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 which adjoins the Carnegie mansion and is part of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York. Its renovation is essential for full use of the needed galleries for temporary exhibitions, expanded educational facilities and office space. In addition, completing facade repairs to the Renwick Gallery is a high priority for this period, as is the renovation of older storage buildings at the Institution's Silver Hill facility. These various construction and renovation efforts represent by far the largest need for direct new funding on the part of History and Art bureaus of the Smithsonian. Progress on all of these facility requirements is expected by FY 1988. Additional information is contained in the Facilities chapter and the Beyond 1988 chapter of this document.

[[Underlined]] History and Art Resource Growth [[/underlined]]

In FY 1988, resources in History and Art are expected to reach about $40,000,000 from the present FY 1982 level of about #37,000,000. Projected increases in federal appropriations are principally associated with continued improvement in collection management capability' future year operations of the Museum of African Art and Freer Gallery in their new Quadrangle facilities; revitalizing the research programs of the Museum of American History; and expanding education, exhibition, and collection acquisitions at the Portrait Gallery, Museum of American Art, and Freer Gallery. Aside from the effect of the recent reorganization of the