Save Outdoor Sculpture! (SOS!) is a private-public partnership between Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and Heritage Preservation, charged with completing a national inventory of America's outdoor sculpture and raising public awareness about the value and need to care for those artworks. Through the SOS! program, a network of volunteers across the country rediscovered the art in their own hometowns. They located and identified outdoor sculpture, provided images, measurements, condition data and print resources to support the dynamic body of information maintained by SAAM. The SOS! program produced related professional-quality collections management resources for a lay audience.
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