Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 18-273
National Air and Space Museum. Exhibits Design Department
Exhibition Records, 1971-2007
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of a central set of scripts for new exhibitions, revisions to existing exhibitions, and proposed exhibitions at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM). Some records document NASM exhibits at the Arts and Industries building before the museum had its own building as well as exhibits at NASM's Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility. In addition to scripts, materials include memoranda, design mock-ups, interview transcripts, floor plans, background materials, and related materials.
Restrictions
Use RestrictionRestricted for 15 years, until Jan-01-2023; Transferring office; 11/2/2016 memorandum, Wright to Mowry; Contact reference staff for details.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- "Blueprint for Space" from Collier's Magazine (Exhibition) (1993-1994: Washington, D.C.)
- 10th Anniversary of Apollo 11 (Exhibition) (1979-1980: Washington, D.C.)
- 25 Years of Space Exploration (Exhibition) (1982-1983: Washington, D.C.)
- Aerial Aircraft Carriers (Exhibition) (1981-1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Aerial Firefighting (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- Aerial Inspirations: Silk Batiks by Mary Edna Fraser (Exhibition) (1994-1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Aeropittura Futurista: Images of Flight in Italian Art (1913-1942) (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Aerospace Medicine (Exhibition) (1979: Washington, D.C.)
- Air Traffic Control (Exhibition) (1974: Washington, D.C.)
- Art of the Cosmic Age (Exhibition) (1991-1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Arts and Industries Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Assignment: Aviation (Exhibition) (1981-1982: Washington, D.C.)
- At Home in the Sky: The Aviation Art of Frank Wootton (Exhibition) (1983-1984: Washington, D.C.)
- At the Controls: The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Looks at Cockpits (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Balloons and Airships (Exhibition) (1976-1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Benefits from Flight (Exhibition) (1975: Washington, D.C.)
- Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age (Exhibition) (1989-2011: Washington, D.C.)
- Drawings and Things by Rowland Emett (Exhibition) (1989-1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Earth Views (Exhibition) (1986-1987: Washington, D.C.)
- Enola Gay (Exhibition) (1995-1998: Washington, D.C.)
- Exhibition Flight (Exhibition) (1976-1980: Washington, D.C.)
- Fire and Ice: A History of Comets in Art (Exhibition) (1985-1986: Washington, D.C.)
- Flight Technology (Exhibition) (1976-1988: Washington, D.C.)
- Flight Testing (Exhibition) (1975-1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Flight Time Barbie: Dolls from the Popular Culture Collection of the National Air and Space Museum (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.
- Flights of Fancy: Photographs by Jacques-Henri Lartigue, 1904-1922 (Exhibition) (1995-1996: Washington, D.C.)
- General Aviation (Exhibition) (1976-1983: Washington, D.C.)
- Horizons: Paintings and Drawings by Robert Taylor (Exhibition) (1988-1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Into the Sunlit Splendor: The Aviation Art of William S. Phillips (Exhibition) (1987-1988: Washington, D.C.)
- Life in the Universe (Exhibition) (1976-1979: Washington, D.C.)
- Looping the Loop: Posters of Early Flight (Exhibition) (2000: Washington, D.C.)
- Magellan Venus Probe Video (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Monitoring Amazonia from Space (Exhibition) (1993-1994: Washington, D.C.)
- National Air and Space Museum (U.S.). Flight and the Arts Gallery
- National Air and Space Museum (U.S.). Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility
- National Air and Space Museum (U.S.). Pioneers of Flight Gallery
- Neptune Encounter with the Voyager (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- Our Beautiful Earth: The View from Air and Space (Exhibition) (1979-1981: Washington, D.C.)
- QN: The Time Traveler (Exhibition) (1986-1988: Washington, D.C.)
- R. G. Smith: The Old Master of the Sky (Exhibition) (2000: Washington, D.C.)
- Rocketry and Space Flight (Exhibition) (1976-2008: Washington, D.C.)
- Satellites (and Sounding Rockets) (Exhibition) (1976-1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Second Great International Paper Airplane Contest Winners (Exhibition) (1985-1986: Washington, D.C.)
- Space Tools (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Star Trek (Exhibition) (1992-1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Star Wars: The Magic of Myth (Exhibition) (1997-1999: Washington, D.C.)
- Stars (Exhibition) (1983-1997: Washington, D.C.)
- The Art of Rober McCall (Exhibition) (1984-1985: Washington, D.C.)
- The Artist and the Space Shuttle (Exhibition) (1982-1983: Washington, D.C.)
- The Gulf War: Air Power in Operation Desert Storm (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- The Preservation of the Wright Flyer (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- The Question Mark and the Growth of Aerial Refueling (Exhibition) (1978-1979: Washington, D.C.)
- The S. S. (Space Ship) Pussiewillow II (Exhibition) (1980-1990: Washington, D.C.)
- The Violent Universe (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Vertical Flight (Exhibition) (1976-1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Voyage: A Journey Through Our Solar System (Exhibition) (2001- : Washington, D.C.)
- Wernher von Braun (Exhibition) (1978: Washington, D.C.)
- Where Next, Columbus? (Exhibition) (1992-2002: Washington, D.C.)
- World Aerobatic Championship Trophies (Exhibition) (1989-1990: Washington, D.C.)
- World War I Aviation (Exhibition) (1976-1987: Washington, D.C.)
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Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 18-273, National Air and Space Museum. Exhibits Design Department, Exhibition Records