---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 73"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "73"
heading: "Acceptance of gift from A. W. Mellon"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/73"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries"
  - "Subchapter II — National Gallery of Art"
---

# §73. Acceptance of gift from A. W. Mellon


Upon completion of the National Gallery of Art, the board shall accept for the Smithsonian Institution as a gift from the donor a collection of works of art which shall be housed and exhibited in the National Gallery of Art.


## Source credit

(Mar. 24, 1937, ch. 50, § 3, 50 Stat. 52.)