National Gallery of Art Made Separate Bureau
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PrintThe National Gallery of Art, now the National Museum of American Art, is made a separate administrative unit under the Smithsonian Institution. This was made possible through an appropriation contained in the sundry civil bill for the year 1921. This will enable the institution to carry out the provisions of the act of establishment in which art was placed on an equal footing with science in the proposed development of the institution. Before the gallery was made a separate bureau it was under the United States National Museum.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
July 1, 1920