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The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D. C., reopens to the public on July 1, along with its sister museum the National Portrait Gallery, as part of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture (see Fig. 1). Visitors will now be able to see more than four thousand works of art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection--nearly five times the number previously on view. During the six years leading up to this unveiling, the staffs of the two museums made many carefully considered changes in the approach to displaying and interpreting the collections. In addition, two innovative new public spaces--the Lunder Conservation Center and ...