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

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

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.

President Donald Trump signed a new executive order on March 27 that calls to remove 'improper ideology' from exhibits at the ...

Major changes could be coming to Smithsonian museums with President Trump’s latest executive order to remove what he calls “improper ideology.” The executive order says, “The Smithsonian Institution ...

The Trump administration, however, is not happy with the way the Smithsonian Institution and other U.S. museums are portraying history. On March 27, 2025, the president issued an executive order, ...

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.

Current and former members of the Smithsonian’s board of regents condemned the edict, while visitors said the Trump administration was trying to edit U.S. history.

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, which operates more than 20 museums and research centres visited by millions yearly in Washington DC and ...

President Trump has signed an executive order that directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate “divisive narratives” and ...

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

The Trump Administration has been moving quickly to eliminate what it considers "woke ideology" from the country's arts and culture institutions. The "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American ...