Smithsonian Institution. Accessibility Program Search this
Extent:
5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Manuscripts
Architectural drawings
Date:
1995-1999
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of records documenting the review of Smithsonian Institution exhibition and facility plans for visitor and staff accessibility. Materials include
correspondence, memoranda, proposals, drawings, and related materials.
Smithsonian Institution. Accessibility Program Search this
Extent:
5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Manuscripts
Architectural drawings
Date:
1973-1994
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of records documenting the review of Smithsonian Institution exhibition and facility plans for visitor and staff accessibility. Some files also
pertain to museum brochures or staff training. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, proposals, drawings, and related materials. Some materials pre-date the establishment
of the Accessibility Program.
Smithsonian Institution. Accessibility Program Search this
Extent:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Manuscripts
Clippings
Brochures
Architectural drawings
Date:
1979-1999
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of records documenting the review of Smithsonian Institution exhibition, facility, publication, and event plans for visitor and staff accessibility.
Materials include correspondence, memoranda, proposals, drawings, background information and related materials.
National Portrait Gallery, Dept. of Design and Production Search this
Extent:
14 cu. ft. (14 record storage boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Manuscripts
Architectural drawings
Drawings
Floor plans
Maps
Color photographs
Black-and-white photographs
Date:
1984-2006
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of two series and documents the Department of Design and Production's role in restoration and renovation projects at the National Portrait Gallery
(NPG). Series 1 consists of records documenting miscellaneous projects involving conservation lab ventilation, lighting, the courtyard fountain, exterior stone and window
restoration, and roof replacement. Series 2 consists of records documenting the Patent Office Building (POB) renovation and enhancement. This series contains extensive documentation
of the development and planning work that went into the renovation and enhancement of the POB. Such aspects of this process include materials related to the movement of personnel
and labs into the Victor Building, accessibility issues, work on museum shops, historic preservation, landscape planning, lighting, open storage cases, off-site storage facilities,
exterior window and stone restoration, and the courtyard roof. Key people involved in this process include Stephen di Girolamo, POB Project Director, and Nello Marconi, Chief
of Design and Production. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, meeting minutes, chronologic files, architectural drawings, floor plans, schematics,
maps, drawings, color photographs, and black-and-white photographs.
Topic:
Architecture and the physically handicapped Search this
Disability and the Practice of Public History / presented by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and the Accessibility Program in conjunction with the National Rehabilitation Awareness Foundation, Thursday and Friday, May 13-14, 1999
Author:
National Museum of American History (U.S.) Search this
National Rehabilitation Awareness Foundation Search this
Come in! : an annotated bibliography of resource materials for the development of accessible museum programs and activities for older and disabled people
Technical report of the Smithsonian Institution Foreign Currency Program Projet : development of museum programs, accessible to disabled children at the National Museum of Natural History / Janice Majewski
