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Subject

  • Gover, Kevin 1955-
  • Smithsonian Institution Administration
  • Anacostia Community Museum
  • Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
  • Arts and Industries Building (Washington, D.C.)
  • Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  • National Air and Space Museum (U.S.)
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)
  • National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
  • National Museum of American History (U.S.)
  • National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
  • National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) George Gustav Heye Center
  • National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
  • National Postal Museum (U.S.)
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • Renwick Gallery
  • Archives of American Art
  • Smithsonian Exhibits
  • Smithsonian Institution National Collections Program

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.
  • Smithsonian Institution, NewsDesk, Bio, Kevin Gover, https://www.si.edu/about/bios/kevin-gover, accessed July 1, 2022
  • Smithsonian Annual Report, 2019-2020
  • Smithsonian Institution, About, Administration, https://www.si.edu/about/administration, 2020
  • The Office of the Under Secretary for Museums and Culture was created in 2019. The Under Secretary oversees the Smithsonian's history and art museums, its cultural centers, the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Exhibits, and the National Collections Program. The museums that the Under Secretary oversees are the Anacostia Community Museum; the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art; the Arts and Industries Building; Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the National Air and Space Museum; the National Museum of African American History and Culture; the National Museum of African Art; the National Museum of American History; the National Museum of the American Indian and the George Gustav Heye Center; the National Portrait Gallery; the National Postal Museum; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Remwick Gallery. Kevin Gover was appointed as Acting Under Secretary for Museums and Culture in 2019 and then in 2021 was appointed Under Secretary. Prior to his appointment Gover was the director of the National Museum of the American Indian from 2007-2021.
  • For a history of the larger creating unit, refer to "Forms part of" above.

Repository Loc.

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

Date

  • 2019
  • 2019-

Topic

  • Art museums
  • Historical museums
  • Museums
  • Museums--Administration

Form/Genre

Mixed archival materials

Local number

SIA AH00451

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