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
- National Air and Space Museum (U.S.). Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility
- Arts and Industries Building (Washington, D.C.)
- National Air and Space Museum (U.S.). Pioneers of Flight Gallery
- National Air and Space Museum (U.S.). Flight and the Arts Gallery
- Enola Gay (Exhibition) (1995-1998: Washington, D.C.)
- Vertical Flight (Exhibition) (1976-1994: Washington, D.C.)
- General Aviation (Exhibition) (1976-1983: Washington, D.C.)
- Exhibition Flight (Exhibition) (1976-1980: Washington, D.C.)
- Life in the Universe (Exhibition) (1976-1979: Washington, D.C.)
- Flight Testing (Exhibition) (1975-1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Satellites (and Sounding Rockets) (Exhibition) (1976-1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Benefits from Flight (Exhibition) (1975: Washington, D.C.)
- Stars (Exhibition) (1983-1997: Washington, D.C.)
- Rocketry and Space Flight (Exhibition) (1976-2008: Washington, D.C.)
- Balloons and Airships (Exhibition) (1976-1990: Washington, D.C.)
- World War I Aviation (Exhibition) (1976-1987: Washington, D.C.)
- Where Next, Columbus? (Exhibition) (1992-2002: Washington, D.C.)
- At the Controls: The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Looks at Cockpits (Exhibition) (2002: Washington, D.C.)
- Looping the Loop: Posters of Early Flight (Exhibition) (2000: Washington, D.C.)
- Star Wars: The Magic of Myth (Exhibition) (1997-1999: Washington, D.C.)
- Flights of Fancy: Photographs by Jacques-Henri Lartigue, 1904-1922 (Exhibition) (1995-1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Flight Time Barbie: Dolls from the Popular Culture Collection of the National Air and Space Museum (Exhibition) (1995: Washington, D.C.
- "Blueprint for Space" from Collier's Magazine (Exhibition) (1993-1994: Washington, D.C.)
- Aerial Inspirations: Silk Batiks by Mary Edna Fraser (Exhibition) (1994-1995: Washington, D.C.)
- Star Trek (Exhibition) (1992-1993: Washington, D.C.)
- Art of the Cosmic Age (Exhibition) (1991-1992: Washington, D.C.)
- Drawings and Things by Rowland Emett (Exhibition) (1989-1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Aeropittura Futurista: Images of Flight in Italian Art (1913-1942) (Exhibition) (1989: 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.)
- Earth Views (Exhibition) (1986-1987: Washington, D.C.)
- Fire and Ice: A History of Comets in Art (Exhibition) (1985-1986: Washington, D.C.)
- The Art of Rober McCall (Exhibition) (1984-1985: Washington, D.C.)
- At Home in the Sky: The Aviation Art of Frank Wootton (Exhibition) (1983-1984: Washington, D.C.)
- The Artist and the Space Shuttle (Exhibition) (1982-1983: Washington, D.C.)
- Assignment: Aviation (Exhibition) (1981-1982: Washington, D.C.)
- The S. S. (Space Ship) Pussiewillow II (Exhibition) (1980-1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Our Beautiful Earth: The View from Air and Space (Exhibition) (1979-1981: Washington, D.C.)
- Flight Technology (Exhibition) (1976-1988: Washington, D.C.)
- Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age (Exhibition) (1989-2011: Washington, D.C.)
- Voyage: A Journey Through Our Solar System (Exhibition) (2001- : Washington, D.C.)
- R. G. Smith: The Old Master of the Sky (Exhibition) (2000: Washington, D.C.)
- The Violent Universe (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
- Monitoring Amazonia from Space (Exhibition) (1993-1994: Washington, D.C.)
- The Gulf War: Air Power in Operation Desert Storm (Exhibition) (1992: Washington, D.C.)
- World Aerobatic Championship Trophies (Exhibition) (1989-1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Magellan Venus Probe Video (Exhibition) (1990: Washington, D.C.)
- Neptune Encounter with the Voyager (Exhibition) (1989: Washington, D.C.)
- QN: The Time Traveler (Exhibition) (1986-1988: Washington, D.C.)
- Second Great International Paper Airplane Contest Winners (Exhibition) (1985-1986: Washington, D.C.)
- Space Tools (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- The Preservation of the Wright Flyer (Exhibition) (1985: Washington, D.C.)
- Aerial Firefighting (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)
- 25 Years of Space Exploration (Exhibition) (1982-1983: Washington, D.C.)
- Aerial Aircraft Carriers (Exhibition) (1981-1984: Washington, D.C.)
- 10th Anniversary of Apollo 11 (Exhibition) (1979-1980: Washington, D.C.)
- Aerospace Medicine (Exhibition) (1979: Washington, D.C.)
- The Question Mark and the Growth of Aerial Refueling (Exhibition) (1978-1979: Washington, D.C.)
- Wernher von Braun (Exhibition) (1978: Washington, D.C.)
- Air Traffic Control (Exhibition) (1974: 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