Doug Wonderlic was interviewed by Jen Page on July 6, 1996. Wonderlic was born in 1938 and worked for a private architectural firm and the General Services Administration before coming to work for the Smithsonian. He is a planner in the Office of Physical Plant and has worked at the Smithsonian for 13 years. This interview discusses the work which Wonderlic does, the projects he has worked on, where he works, stories of seeing unusual areas of the museums, how he came to work at the Smithsonian, his first day on the job and his first impressions of the Smithsonian as a workplace, a typical day of work, a description of the National Air and Space Museum extension at Dulles International Airport project, working at the Smithsonian as compared to a private company or government agency, challenging aspects of the job, changes at the Smithsonian, his work at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, what working at the Smithsonian means to him, visiting the museums when he is not working, Wonderlic's memories of the Festival of American Folklife, and his comments on the Working at the Smithsonian exhibit.

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Collection Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9594, Smithsonian Memories Project, Festival of American Folklife Oral History Interviews