Special Exhibition Records, 1978-2007
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The Smithsonian Institution Archives welcomes personal and educational use of its collections unless otherwise noted. For commercial uses, please contact photos@si.edu.Summary
Consists of records documenting special exhibitions and traveling exhibitions produced or hosted at the National Museum of Natural History. Materials include memoranda and correspondence; press releases; clippings; object lists; proposals; scripts and outlines; installation and object photographs, negatives, and slides; floor plans; architectural drawings; brochures; budgets and funding information; reports; sketches and drawings of portions of the exhibition; checklists; exhibition catalogs; graphic elements; videos; maps; ephemera; and related materials. Some materials are in electronic format.
Category
Series Level Description
Notes
- To view records that comprise this series, see the detailed list of accessions and/or record units below.
- For a history of the creating unit, refer to "Forms part of" above.
Organization
By exhibition and unarranged
Repository Loc.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Date
- 1978
- 1978-2007
Restrictions & Rights
Materials less than 15 years old Restricted. Contact reference staff for details
Topic
- Natural history museums
- Traveling exhibitions
- Exhibitions
Form/Genre
- Manuscripts
- Clippings
- Brochures
- Color photographs
- Color negatives
- Color transparencies
- Posters
- Floor plans
- Floppy disks
- Pamphlets
- Black-and-white photographs
- Electronic records
- Black-and-white negatives
- Compact discs
- Architectural drawings
- Black-and-white transparencies
- Drawings
- Sketches
- Exhibition catalogs
- Digital images
- Digital versatile discs
- Maps
- Videotapes
- Video recordings
Local number
SIA RS00027
Physical description
- 62.53 cu. ft. unprocessed holdings
- 2.98 cu. ft. oversize materials unprocessed holdings