MHT Appropriation Bill Passed

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Summary

The House of Representatives passes the Interior Department appropriation bill, including $33,712,000 for construction of the SI's new Museum of History and Technology.

Subject

  • Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
  • National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
  • National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
  • United States Congress

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

  • The Torch gives the number as $33,000,000.
  • Torch, 2/1956, p. 2
  • Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1956, p. 1

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

February 21, 1956

Topic

  • Architecture
  • New Museums
  • Expenditures, Public
  • Buildings
  • Building

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