Outreach/ A commitment to go far beyond museum walls

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Summary

The article features signifigant outreach programs initiated by former Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley. Ripley's philosophy about museums, patterned after Secretary Spencer Baird's assisstant, Dr. George Brown Goode, is displayed in Ripley book, THE SACRED GROVE, as well as through the changes Ripley brought to the Smithsonian. Other programs, such as televison, radio, and publication projects, as well as a traveling exhibit program, took the Smithsonian to people who could not venture to the Mall. These programs were also fundamental in making the Smithsonian a national cultural center and no longer exclusively known as "the nation's attic".

Subject

Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Contained within

The Torch (Newspaper)

Contact information

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

Date

February 1984

Topic

  • Education
  • Secretaries
  • Museums
  • Successful people
  • Retirement
  • Museums--Educational aspects

Physical description

A Special Supplement to the Smithsonian Torch, pp. S5, S6

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