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EXPENSES
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Business Management Office | 5 | $232
Museum Shops | 141 | 8,911
Mail Order Division | 40 | 8,563
Concessions | - | 39
Food Services | 53 | 2,930
Parking | 17 | 451
Belmont | [[underlined]] 7 | 453 [[/underlined]]
  Total | 263 | $21,579

Net Gain: | --- | $2,047 [[/table]]

[[underlined]] Museum Shops. [[/underlined]] The Smithsonian has provided sales desks since the 1860s, but substantial sales results are a recent development. Centrally managed museum shops are located in the Museum of American History, the Museum of Natural History, the Arts and Industries Building, the Air and Space Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of American Art, the Portrait Gallery, the Renwick Gallery, and the Museum of African Art.

Items offered for sale in the museum shops are selected to meet special requirements.  Each item must expand the educational value of an individual's visit, and confirm to high standards of quality and taste.  Catalogues and other publications derived from exhibition themes and subjects, including works by Smithsonian scholars, are important to the museum shops.  Other items include reproductions of artifacts, craft products, and educational games and toys for children.

[[underlined]] Mail Order Division [[/underlined]] . Formed in 1975, the mail order division produces several catalogues each year. These catalogues are sent to Associates and offer special items selected to reflect Smithsonian collections and programs.  High standards of quality, taste, and educational value are maintained. Approximately 225,000 catalogue orders are processed annually through the Division's receiving and shipping center in Springfield, Virginia.

[[underlined]] Concessions. [[/underlined]] Through concession arrangements, the Institution provides visitors with restaurant facilities and recorded tour rental systems in the major Smithsonian museums.  An old fashioned ice cream parlor is also operated by a concessionaire in the Museum of American History. Other concessions include the popular carrousel and popcorn wagons on the Mall during the spring and summer.

[[underlined]] Parking. [[/underlined]] Parking revenues are generated by the parking garage located under the Air and Space Museum and supplemented by fees charged to Associates and the public parking on other Smithsonian lots during weekends.

[[underlined]] Belmont Conference Center. [[/underlined]]  The Center, which opened in 1967, is located between Washington and Baltimore and is operated by the Smithsonian