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receive the works of art. According to estimates received from experienced art movers it will take from 7 1/2 to 9 months, including packing and boxing the more fragile pieces, to move the entire collection.  In our judgment, packing should start no later than February 1973 in order to give us sufficient time to prepare our opening.

[[underlined]]Appropriation, F.Y. 1973[[/underlined]]

Our appropriation for F.Y. 1973 (beginning July 1, 1972, ending June 30, 1973) was $1,166,000 which included $600,000 for museum furnishings.  We have contracted with Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, our architects, for the interior designing which will include all public areas as well as staff offices and will specify the types of furniture and carpeting, interior colors for the galleries and offices, arrangement of lobby areas, library layout, etc.  This will assure a consistency of quality design throughout the museum in keeping with the architecture.

[[underlined]]Organization[[/underlined]]

Our current staff consists of 16 permanent and 3 temporary employees.  This is 4 less than our authorized 23 positions in FY 1973 and we are recruiting qualified personnel to bring our staff to full strength. The professional staff is divided into an Office of the Director with two employees, an Office of the Administrator with three employees, a Department of Painting and Sculpture with eight employees, a Department of Exhibitions with three employees, a Registrar's Office with three employees, and a Department of Education which has no employees at this time. All these departments and Offices are linked by areas of responsibility to the Director's Office.

Of the 19 current employees in New York, 17 have indicated their intention to continue in Washington, although this was not a condition of employment.  I think this is a fair measure of our staff's interest and enthusiasm.

In January 1972 we added a Curator of Exhibitions, Mr. Douglas MacAgy, to design our inaugural exhibition.  Mr. MacAgy was formerly Director of National Exhibitions at the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington and has had wide museum experience.  We are also happy to have the services of a new Registrar, Miss Nancy Sage, formerly in the Registrar's Office of the Museum of Modern Art.  We are presently on the lookout for a Building Manager whose familiarity with the building from scratch would make him invaluable in the future.