22 U.S.C. § 2735b — National Museum of American Diplomacy

submitted 70 years ago by Pub. L. 118-159 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 566 words · no verdicts yet

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The Secretary may contract for, grant, or otherwise support visitor, educational, exhibit, shop, food, and event services at the National Museum of American Diplomacy. The section governs retaining fees and disposing of, selling, trading, transferring, lending, and borrowing collection items.

(a) Activities. (1) The Secretary may support suitable visitor, educational, and related services by contract, grant, or otherwise, including (A) programs and conferences, (B) creating and installing exhibits, and (C) shop and food services in the Museum’s public physical and virtual spaces. (2) The Secretary may retain customary facility-use fees, including event rental, shop, and food proceeds. They recover Museum operating costs, go into the designated Department account for Museum programs, and remain available until spent. (b) Documents and artifacts. (1) Historic documents, artifacts, and other items State acquires for the permanent collection and the Secretary finds suitable for display are United States Government property and may be disposed of only under this subsection. (2) After the determination in paragraph (3), considering collection policy and professional museum practice, the Secretary may sell at fair market value, trade, or transfer an item without subtitle I of title 40. Sale proceeds may be used only to advance (a)(1) activities and only to acquire and directly care for Museum collections. (3) The determination must be that (A) the item no longer furthers the Museum mission under its collection policy, (B) fair-market sale based on an independent appraisal, trade, or transfer would maintain or improve the collection, and (C) it is in the United States’ best interest. (4) The Secretary may also loan items to foreign or domestic institutions for repair, study, or exhibition when the Museum does not need them, and borrow items from foreign or domestic institutions or people for activities consistent with (a)(1).

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(a) Activities

(1) Support authorized

The Secretary is authorized to provide, by contract, grant, or otherwise, for the performance of appropriate museum visitor and educational outreach services and related events, including—

(A)

organizing programs and conference activities;

(B)

creating, designing, and installing exhibits; and

(C)

conducting museum shop services and food services in the public exhibition and related physical and virtual space utilized by the National Museum of American Diplomacy.

(2) Recovery of costs

The Secretary of State is authorized to retain the proceeds obtained from customary and appropriate fees charged for the use of facilities, including venue rental for events consistent with the activities described in subsection (a)(1) and museum shop services and food services at the National Museum of American Diplomacy. Such proceeds shall be retained as a recovery of the costs of operating the Museum, credited to a designated Department account that exists for the purpose of funding the Museum and its programs and activities, and shall remain available until expended.

(b) Disposition of documents, artifacts, and other articles

(1) Property

All historic documents, artifacts, or other articles acquired by the Department of State for the permanent museum collection and determined by the Secretary of State to be suitable for display by the National Museum of American Diplomacy shall be considered to be the property of the United States Government and shall be subject to disposition solely in accordance with this subsection.

(2) Sale, trade, or transfer

Whenever the Secretary of State makes a determination described in paragraph (3) with respect to a document, artifact, or other article described in paragraph (1), taking into account considerations such as the Museum’s collections management policy and best professional museum practice, the Secretary may sell at fair market value, trade, or transfer such document, artifact, or other article without regard to the requirements of subtitle I of title 40. The proceeds of any such sale may be used solely for the advancement of the activities described in subsection (a)(1) of the National Museum of American Diplomacy and may not be used for any purpose other than the acquisition and direct care of the collections of the Museum.

(3) Determinations prior to sale, trade, or transfer

The determination described in this paragraph with respect to a document, artifact, or other article described in paragraph (1) is a determination that—

(A)

the document, artifact, or other article no longer serves to further the mission of the National Museum of American Diplomacy as set forth in the collections management policy of the Museum;

(B)

the sale at a fair market price based on an independent appraisal or trade or transfer of the document, artifact, or other article would serve to maintain or enhance the Museum collection; and

(C)

the sale, trade, or transfer of the document, artifact, or other article would be in the best interests of the United States.

(4) Loans

In addition to the authorization under paragraph (2) relating to the sale, trade, or transfer of documents, artifacts, or other articles described in paragraph (1), the Secretary of State may—

(A)

loan the documents, artifacts, or other articles to other institutions, both foreign and domestic, for repair, study, or exhibition when not needed for use or display by the National Museum of American Diplomacy; and

(B)

borrow documents, artifacts, or other articles from other institutions or individuals, both foreign and domestic, for activities consistent with subsection (a)(1).

Source credit: (Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 841, title I, § 65, as added Pub. L. 118–159, div. G, title LXXII, § 7206, Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2530.)

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1956Enacted · Pub. L. 118-159 · 138 Stat. 2530

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