---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 76e"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "76e"
heading: "Housing or exhibiting objects of art possessed by Smithsonian Institution"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/76e"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries"
  - "Subchapter IV — Smithsonian Gallery of Art"
---

# §76e. Housing or exhibiting objects of art possessed by Smithsonian Institution


Such objects of art as the Government or the Smithsonian Institution now possess, or such as may hereafter be acquired, may be housed or exhibited in the Gallery, with the approval of and under such regulations as the Regents and [Secretary](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-4) of the Smithsonian Institution may prescribe.


## Source credit

(May 17, 1938, ch. 238, § 6, 52 Stat. 401.)