Because the Smithsonian can receive private funding, it is not entirely in trouble-but the long-term effects remain unclear.

President Trump threatened to block funding for Smithsonian exhibitions that discuss racism and ordered the restoration of monuments taken down because of their celebration of racist figures.

The order is vague but suggests Trump is seeking to purge elements of what conservatives view as a revisionist history of the US that places systemic racism at the heart of its narrative.

An executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution is prompting questions over the organization’s past and who runs and funds it.

The top Democrat of the House Administration Committee, Rep. Joe Morelle, and other Democrats who have oversight of the ...

In a letter to Vice President JD Vance, four U.S. representatives on a committee that oversees the cultural institution urged ...

The president’s recent executive order directed at the institution will face a lot of procedural headwinds before he can MAGA ...

The memo from Lonnie G. Bunch III, the first African American to lead the Smithsonian Institution, was as much a message of ...

The Trump administration, however, is not happy with the way the Smithsonian Institution and other U.S. museums are ...

The Trump administration’s deep cost-cutting effort across the federal government has led the National Endowment for the ...

Yet the Smithsonian’s secretary and highest-ranking official, Lonnie Bunch, has stated his belief that the institution should lead the ... arduous process. Trump’s executive order is an important step ...