---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 76bb"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "76bb"
heading: "Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/76bb"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries"
  - "Subchapter VI — Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden"
---

# §76bb. Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

- (a) **Designation; administration by Board of Regents; cooperation of Board with Secretary of the Interior—** The [museum](/usc/20/80r–1.md?p=3) and sculpture garden provided for by this subchapter shall be designated and known in perpetuity as the Joseph H. Hirshhorn [Museum](/usc/20/80r–1.md?p=3) and Sculpture Garden, and shall be a free public [museum](/usc/20/80r–1.md?p=3) and sculpture garden under the administration of the [Board](/usc/20/4702.md?p=2) of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. In administering the sculpture garden the [Board](/usc/20/4702.md?p=2) shall cooperate with the Secretary of[^1] Interior so that the development and use of the Garden is consistent with the open-space concept of the Mall, for which the Secretary of[^1] Interior is responsible, and with related development regarding underground garages and street development.
- (b) **Federal funds—** The faith of the United States is pledged that the United States shall provide such [funds](/usc/20/4702.md?p=3) as may be necessary for the upkeep, operation, and administration of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn [Museum](/usc/20/80r–1.md?p=3) and Sculpture Garden.
- (c) **Uses—** The Joseph H. Hirshhorn [Museum](/usc/20/80r–1.md?p=3) and Sculpture Garden shall be the permanent home of the collections of art of Joseph H. Hirshhorn and the Joseph H. Hirshhorn [Foundation](/usc/20/4702.md?p=1), and shall be used for the storage, exhibition, and study of works of art, and for the administration of the affairs of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn [Museum](/usc/20/80r–1.md?p=3) and Sculpture Garden.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be followed by “the”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–788, § 2, Nov. 7, 1966, 80 Stat. 1403.)