New Exhibits Installed in USNM
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During Fiscal Year 1900 many new exhibits were installed in the United States National Museum. They include: the arrangement of the ceramic collection in the gallery of the Northeast Court; the extensive basketry collection and the ethnological exhibits illustrative of Latin America were installed in the gallery of the Northwest Court; in the West North Range the Indian groups and Catlin paintings were nearly completed; improvements were made to the exhibits of American History, Graphic Arts, Land Transportation, and Materia Medica; North American carnivores went on display in the South Hall; and the Southeast Range, after being cleared of storage, was assigned to exhibit reptiles and fishes, which was partially completed by the end of FY1900.
Subject
- Catlin, George 1796-1872
- Arts and Industries Building
- United States National Museum
- Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology
Category
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Notes
- Fiscal Year 1900 is July 1, 1899 to June 30, 1900
- Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year 1900. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1901, p. 56-57.
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
- June 30, 1900
- 19th century
Topic
- Reptiles
- Graphic arts
- Art
- Art, American
- Herpetology
- Transportation
- Ethnology
- Ichthyology
- Catlin Indian Gallery
- Biology
- Ceramics
- History
- Mammals
- Medicine
- History of Science and Technology
- Animals
- Fishes
- Historians
- Exhibitions
- Exhibit openings
- Ethnological museums and collections
- National Collections
- Medicine--History
- Art objects
- Indians of North America
Place
- United States
- North America
- Latin America