Delano, who headed both the National Resources Planning Board and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. The two projects together might entice Congress to fund them. Harlan suggested linking the construction of a memorial garden to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Stone and MacLeish at a White House reception in December 1940, which led to an intriguing plot. In her history of the CCCR, Jane Aikin tells of a chance encounter between Supreme Court Justice Harlan F. The National Resources Planning Board established the Committee for the Conservation of Cultural Resources (CCCR) and charged it with developing a plan for the protection of the federal government's cultural institutions and assets in the event of war.Īrchibald MacLeish, then the Librarian of Congress, took the lead in running the CCCR, and one of the projects he pursued was a bombproof shelter. would experience aerial bombing much like the city of London faced during the Blitz.
In the run up to World War II, curators at the Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art believed that Washington, D.C. I've looked at risk management plans because, in any emergency, curators only have time to protect a few choice objects.Ī few months ago while looking through the Smithsonian's wartime collections, I stumbled across something surprising that might have been ripped from the pages from a Hollywood script: a plan to build a secret treasure trove underneath a memorial to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I'm a researcher at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, where I have been studying how curators determine the most important or valuable objects in their collections. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. In Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithsonian, the Institution's treasures were stored in a four story subterranean vault entered through the Castle. Indiana Jones tore through any number of libraries and museums looking for hidden clues in his treasure hunts. Nicholas Cage discovered lost treasure in New York City's Trinity Church in National Treasure he struck gold again at Mount Rushmore in National Treasure: Book of Secrets. It's a common theme in books and movies: historic relics buried in a secret treasure trove underneath a famous monument.
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