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July 15, 1981

The Thomas M. Evans Gallery, designed to display special Smithsonian exhibits and important traveling loan exhibitions, opens in the National Museum of Natural History. The formal designation is made at a dinner held July 14, 1981, immediately prior to the opening of the gallery’s first exhibition, “5,000 Years of Korean Art.” The Gallery is named for a New York philanthropist whose contribution made the construction possible.

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Posted: 15 July 2010
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Alex di Giovanni is primarily responsible for "other duties as assigned" in the Office of Communications and External Affairs. She has been with the Smithsonian since 2006 and plans to be interred in the Smithson crypt.