. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. INTRODUCTION O opinion that the design is a handsome one and expressed tliemselves as glad to approve it as shown in the models. The National Capital Planning Commission meeting December 6, 1957, approved the location of the building on the site. Planning for the interior of the Museum also was accelerated. De- signs for most of the exhibition halls requiring special architectural treatment were completed by the Museum staff, and the architects prepared working drawings for many of them. John C. Ewers, ethnologist a
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. INTRODUCTION O opinion that the design is a handsome one and expressed tliemselves as glad to approve it as shown in the models. The National Capital Planning Commission meeting December 6, 1957, approved the location of the building on the site. Planning for the interior of the Museum also was accelerated. De- signs for most of the exhibition halls requiring special architectural treatment were completed by the Museum staff, and the architects prepared working drawings for many of them. John C. Ewers, ethnologist and administrative officer, directed the Museum staff planning of all interior areas. Eugene Kingman, Director of the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, reviewed many of the exhibition plans and contributed constructive criticism of them. The Museum of Natural History and the Museum of History and Technology were established as the two elements of the United States National Museum. Frank A. Taylor was appointed Director, Museum of History and Technology. Congress appropriated funds for the design and the preparation of working drawings for the construction of additions to the Natural History Building. The architects. Mills, Petticord and Mills, sub- mitted tentative drawings with a model of the building and made Architectural rendition showing the existing building of the Museum of Natural History, viewed from Constitution Avenue, with the proposed new wings r r -n^ n o K F^-11111 pR§. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum. [Washington] : Smithsonian Institution
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