Agency history, 2000-2003

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Subject

  • Burke, Sheila P
  • Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
  • National Postal Museum (U.S.)
  • Smithsonian Associates
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • National Air and Space Museum (U.S.)
  • National Museum of American History (U.S.)
  • National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
  • Anacostia Museum
  • Archives of American Art
  • Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
  • Smithsonian Institution Office of Government Relations
  • Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
  • Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives
  • Smithsonian Institution Affiliations Program
  • Smithsonian Program in Asian Pacific American Studies
  • Smithsonian Institution Office of the Director of Communications
  • Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
  • National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

Category

Agency History

Notes

  • This is an agency history. It does not describe actual records. The Smithsonian Institution Archives uses these histories as brief accounts of the origin, development, and functions of an office or administrative unit to set that unit in its historical context. To find information on record holdings, please double-click the highlighted field "Creator/Author", which will open on a brief view of relevant records.
  • The Torch, March 2000
  • SI website, About Smithsonian, People, https://web.archive.org/web/20040219210703/http://www.si.edu/about/people.htm, February 19, 2004, accessed on the Internet Archive on December 6, 2021
  • The Office of the Under Secretary for American Museums and National Programs was created in 2000. The Office is intended to include those programs which focus largely on American history, America's social and cultural heritage, and on national outreach. Its components include the National Air and Space Museum; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the National Museum of American History; the National Museum of the American Indian; the Anacostia Museum; the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; the National Portrait Gallery; and the National Postal Museum. In addition to these museums there are other units: the Affiliations Program, the Archives of American Art, the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies, the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives, the Smithsonian Program for Asian Pacific American Studies, the Smithsonian Associates, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, the Office of Communications, and the Office of Government Relations.
  • Sheila P. Burke served as Under Secretary for American Museums and National Programs, 2000-2003. In 2004 the Smithsonian underwent a reorganization and the Office of the Under Secretary for American Museums and National Programs was abolished.

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 2000
  • 2000-2003

Topic

  • Museums
  • Museums--Administration

Form/Genre

Mixed archival materials

Local number

SIA AH00297

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