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Increases in appropriations available to the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES) are being planned for FY 1984-88 to help keep rental charges down for users of this popular service; to reduce the effects of inflation on production and transportation costs of traveling exhibits; and to strengthen the registrarial, education, and publication functions of the program. If appropriation increases are not realized, the impact will be felt in higher costs for users for participatory fees and transportation costs. In FY 1980, the Institution began planning for circulating a series of major exhibitions from abroad. Initial contracts have been made with several South American countries to encourage their use of SITES' offerings; interest has been shown in these prospects, and funding the environmental questions are now being examined in greater detail.

Encouraged by the successful launching of the international tour of the [[underlined]] American Impressionist [[/underlined]] exhibition which opened in Paris in March 1982, SITS will organize an exhibition of [[underlined]] American Art of the 20s and 30s [[/underlined]] to inaugurate a European tour. The exhibition to be selected from Smithsonian and other private collections will consist of sixty paintings by Henri, Glackens, Bellows, Hopper, and Marin, among others. A guest curator will be selected to work with SITES to develop the exhibition, choose the works and write the catalogue. The exhibition will travel to five European cities.

SITES is working with the United States Information Agency (formerly the International communications Agency) to organize an East Asian tour of a selection from the Renwick Gallery's [[underlined]] American Porcelain [[/underlined]] exhibition.  Sixty imaginative and original works, ranging from the functional to the sculptural, were selected by SITES and Renwick staff to travel to Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong, Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lampur, and Tokyo beginning in July of 1983.

As well as organizing exhibitions specifically for international tours, SITES has identified other exhibitions organized for American audiences which are available for international showings. These exhibitions are listed in [[underlined]] Update [[/underlined]] under the logo "SITES Abroad".

The ability to attract a number of major offerings from foreign countries and institutions is limited by the lack of funds to pay for shipping reciprocal exhibitions abroad.  The Institution will continue to explore ways of overcoming these obstacles in the years ahead.

[[underlined]] Museum Programs Resource growth [[/underlined]]

By FY 1988, Museum Programs resources may approach $15,000,000 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 research and conservation programs, the Traveling Exhibition Service, and for horticulture and library operations. Unrestricted trust fund support for traveling exhibitions is also projected to increase substantially during the planning period.