Docent Program Records, 1985, 1987-1988, 1992, 1994, 2003, 2007-2008, and undated

Summary

This accession consists of recordings of docent training providing information about the museum, exhibitions, objects, and artists. Topics also include lectures of exhibition overviews, tours and walkthroughs, collections, and training for docents. Materials include audio recordings cassettes, transparencies, and transparency lists. Some materials date to when the department was known as Education and Public Programs, 2007-2014. Prior to 2007, it had also been called the Department of Education. Some materials are in electronic format.

Subject

• Freer Gallery of Art
• Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
• Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Education and Public Programs

Notes

• Electronic List in accession file.
• Folder List in accession file.
• For a description of the record series of which these materials form a part, refer to the "Forms part of" above.

Organization

Unarranged and chronologic

Repository Loc.

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

Date

• 1985
• 1985-2008
• 1985, 1987-1988, 1992, 1994, 2003, 2007-2008, and undated

Topic

• Tour guides (Persons)
• Art
• Art museums
• Lectures and lecturing
• Education
• Museum docents
• Museums
• Volunteer workers in museums
• Art, Asian
• Museums--Educational aspects
• Museum visitors

Form/Genre

• Manuscripts
• Collection descriptions
• Audiotapes

Local number

SIA Acc. 25-002

Physical description

1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)

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