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The museum behind the museum: A look inside Smithsonian's support center.
Possibly the gem of the center is the U.S. Antarctic Meteorite Collection, which is made up of large metal containers filled with nitrogen gas that maintain a cold temperature
https://wjla.com/features/dmv-250/smithsonian-museum-support-center-suitland-whale-bones-baleen-antarctic-meteorites-meteorite-collection-conservation #globalmuseum #museums #Smithsonian #collections -
The museum behind the museum: A look inside Smithsonian's support center.
Possibly the gem of the center is the U.S. Antarctic Meteorite Collection, which is made up of large metal containers filled with nitrogen gas that maintain a cold temperature
https://wjla.com/features/dmv-250/smithsonian-museum-support-center-suitland-whale-bones-baleen-antarctic-meteorites-meteorite-collection-conservation #globalmuseum #museums #Smithsonian #collections -
Cardiff Giant: Evidence of Smithsonian Cover up #giant #giants #smithsonian #hoax
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7 Smithsonian buildings closed over mechanical issue.
The Smithsonian Castle, the National Museum of the American Indian and the Hirshhorn Museum were among the sites that were shut down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/08/06/7-smithsonian-buildings-closed-over-mechanical-issue/ #glopbalmuseum #museums #Smithsonian -
7 Smithsonian buildings closed over mechanical issue.
The Smithsonian Castle, the National Museum of the American Indian and the Hirshhorn Museum were among the sites that were shut down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/08/06/7-smithsonian-buildings-closed-over-mechanical-issue/ #glopbalmuseum #museums #Smithsonian -
Trump's Attempt to Rewrite American History Through the Smithsonian
📰 Original title: A spine-chilling new Trump scheme is laid bare by this absurd Smithsonian lie
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One Problem With Attacking the Smithsonian? Americans Like It.
Coming after a history museum may not be the base-galvanizing issue Trump thinks it is.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/08/smithsonian-trump-trust/688165/ #globalmuseum #museums #Smithsonian #Trump -
One Problem With Attacking the Smithsonian? Americans Like It.
Coming after a history museum may not be the base-galvanizing issue Trump thinks it is.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/08/smithsonian-trump-trust/688165/ #globalmuseum #museums #Smithsonian #Trump -
New York Times: For Museum Boss Who Became a Trump Target, It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again. This link goes to a gift article. “Kim Sajet left as director of the National Portrait Gallery when she found herself in the White House cross hairs. Now she’s watching another Smithsonian chief go through it.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/01/new-york-times-for-museum-boss-who-became-a-trump-target-its-deja-vu-all-over-again/ -
New York Times: For Museum Boss Who Became a Trump Target, It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again. This link goes to a gift article. “Kim Sajet left as director of the National Portrait Gallery when she found herself in the White House cross hairs. Now she’s watching another Smithsonian chief go through it.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/01/new-york-times-for-museum-boss-who-became-a-trump-target-its-deja-vu-all-over-again/ -
For Museum Boss Who Became a Trump Target, It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again.
Kim Sajet left as director of the National Portrait Gallery when she found herself in the White House cross hairs. Now she’s watching another Smithsonian chief go through it.
https://archive.ph/P8g2l #globalmuseum #museums #Trump #Smithsonian -
For Museum Boss Who Became a Trump Target, It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again.
Kim Sajet left as director of the National Portrait Gallery when she found herself in the White House cross hairs. Now she’s watching another Smithsonian chief go through it.
https://archive.ph/P8g2l #globalmuseum #museums #Trump #Smithsonian -
#Smithsonian #TrumpRegime #Gleichschaltung #history
"Trump ramps up attacks against Smithsonian in executive action ordering new signage outside exhibits
The new order comes after a scathing White House report, criticizing the museum.
President Donald Trump ramped up his attacks against the Smithsonian Institution over the weekend by issuing an executive action that ordered new 'temporary exhibits or signage' to be installed outside the National Museum of American History (NMAH), 'warning' visitors about 'the Ideological Capture' of the museum.
The 'ideological capture' is a reference to allegations that the White House made against leaders at NMAH in a blistering July 4 report released by the White House Domestic Policy Council, accusing the museum and its leaders of presenting 'a radical view of American history.'
The report includes dozens of examples of exhibits and materials in exhibits that the White House has determined to be examples of 'radical activism.'
'Such signage shall notify visitors that the Museum exhibits should be renovated consistent with the findings in the Report and direct visitors to locations and resources for accurate information regarding America's history,' Trump's executive order states.
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Trump ordered the Department of the Interior, which oversees the National Park Service, to install temporary signs 'along the NPS-maintained sidewalks and walkways used by the public to access the Museum' to inform visitors of the findings of the White House report.
He also ordered the Interior Department to install new signage or exhibits on NPS-maintained land around the museum 'that corrects inaccurate information presented in the Museum' regarding the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, claiming that the museum 'failed to appropriately appropriately honor' on the nation's 250th anniversary in July.
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The White House report was born out a review that was launched in response to Trump's March 27, 2025 executive order, 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.'
The executive order directed Vice President J.D. Vance, in consultation with the president's advisers on domestic policy, 'to remove improper ideology' from Smithsonian institutions, arguing that materials that cast America in a 'negative light' have no place in federal cultural institutions.
'The serious concerns raised in this report are not about a few exhibits or a few controversial labels,; the report says. 'As it stands today, it would benefit most Americans, especially parents bringing their children for a tour, if the Smithsonian's flagship history museum had a label at every entrance that reads: 'Warning: the exhibits in this museum were prepared by people who don't want you to love your country.'
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Bunch has been leading the Smithsonian since 2019 but the institution is overseen by a 17-member governing body, known as the Board of Regents. Bunch, who met with Trump at the White House on Aug. 28, 2025, repeatedly affirmed the Smithsonian's 'independence' from political influence.
Referencing his conversations with Trump in a Sept. 3, 2025 letter to the institution's employees, Bunch underscored the independence of the Smithsonian, saying it was 'paramount.' He also told employees that the institution remains committed to telling the 'American story' and 'will always be, a place that welcomes all Americans and the world.'"
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#Smithsonian #TrumpRegime #Gleichschaltung #history
"Trump ramps up attacks against Smithsonian in executive action ordering new signage outside exhibits
The new order comes after a scathing White House report, criticizing the museum.
President Donald Trump ramped up his attacks against the Smithsonian Institution over the weekend by issuing an executive action that ordered new 'temporary exhibits or signage' to be installed outside the National Museum of American History (NMAH), 'warning' visitors about 'the Ideological Capture' of the museum.
The 'ideological capture' is a reference to allegations that the White House made against leaders at NMAH in a blistering July 4 report released by the White House Domestic Policy Council, accusing the museum and its leaders of presenting 'a radical view of American history.'
The report includes dozens of examples of exhibits and materials in exhibits that the White House has determined to be examples of 'radical activism.'
'Such signage shall notify visitors that the Museum exhibits should be renovated consistent with the findings in the Report and direct visitors to locations and resources for accurate information regarding America's history,' Trump's executive order states.
(. . .)
Trump ordered the Department of the Interior, which oversees the National Park Service, to install temporary signs 'along the NPS-maintained sidewalks and walkways used by the public to access the Museum' to inform visitors of the findings of the White House report.
He also ordered the Interior Department to install new signage or exhibits on NPS-maintained land around the museum 'that corrects inaccurate information presented in the Museum' regarding the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, claiming that the museum 'failed to appropriately appropriately honor' on the nation's 250th anniversary in July.
(. . .)
The White House report was born out a review that was launched in response to Trump's March 27, 2025 executive order, 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.'
The executive order directed Vice President J.D. Vance, in consultation with the president's advisers on domestic policy, 'to remove improper ideology' from Smithsonian institutions, arguing that materials that cast America in a 'negative light' have no place in federal cultural institutions.
'The serious concerns raised in this report are not about a few exhibits or a few controversial labels,; the report says. 'As it stands today, it would benefit most Americans, especially parents bringing their children for a tour, if the Smithsonian's flagship history museum had a label at every entrance that reads: 'Warning: the exhibits in this museum were prepared by people who don't want you to love your country.'
(. . .)
Bunch has been leading the Smithsonian since 2019 but the institution is overseen by a 17-member governing body, known as the Board of Regents. Bunch, who met with Trump at the White House on Aug. 28, 2025, repeatedly affirmed the Smithsonian's 'independence' from political influence.
Referencing his conversations with Trump in a Sept. 3, 2025 letter to the institution's employees, Bunch underscored the independence of the Smithsonian, saying it was 'paramount.' He also told employees that the institution remains committed to telling the 'American story' and 'will always be, a place that welcomes all Americans and the world.'"
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"Trump unterzeichnete am Freitag eine Verordnung bezüglich Hinweisschildern vor dem #Smithsonian- #Museum für amerikanische #Geschichte. Mit Ihren Steuergeldern sollen Besucher darauf hingewiesen werden, nicht zu glauben, was sie im Inneren zu sehen bekommen.
Ja, Hitler hat das auch getan."
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"Trump unterzeichnete am Freitag eine Verordnung bezüglich Hinweisschildern vor dem #Smithsonian- #Museum für amerikanische #Geschichte. Mit Ihren Steuergeldern sollen Besucher darauf hingewiesen werden, nicht zu glauben, was sie im Inneren zu sehen bekommen.
Ja, Hitler hat das auch getan."
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r3ywdqtenjnuia4st4asopkk/post/3mrrut3y4pj2j -
"History is not just a set of facts and events. It is the study of how and why societies change. Why do people act in certain ways? Are there patterns in human behavior? What makes a society successful? What makes one fail?"
#uspol #history #smithsonian
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-27-2026?r=191e2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email -
"History is not just a set of facts and events. It is the study of how and why societies change. Why do people act in certain ways? Are there patterns in human behavior? What makes a society successful? What makes one fail?"
#uspol #history #smithsonian
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-27-2026?r=191e2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email -
“[I]n February 2017, a month after his first inauguration, Trump praised the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and its founding director, Dr. Lonnie Bunch, for sharing ‘the great struggle for freedom and equality that prevailed against the sins of slavery and the injustice of discrimination.’”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-27-2026?r=14j7ia
#USpol #Smithsonian (1/2)
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“[I]n February 2017, a month after his first inauguration, Trump praised the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and its founding director, Dr. Lonnie Bunch, for sharing ‘the great struggle for freedom and equality that prevailed against the sins of slavery and the injustice of discrimination.’”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-27-2026?r=14j7ia
#USpol #Smithsonian (1/2)
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“…#Trump proposed cutting funds for the #Smithsonian by more than $60 million.
Congress rejected that cut and increased Smithsonian funding to account for inflation.
Vought’s office then unlawfully forbade the Smithsonian from spending any money Congress appropriated beyond the president’s budget request.
In both cases, Vought likely has been emboldened by the Impoundment Control Act’s lack of penalties for his unlawful withholding of funds.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/economy-budget/5973576-congress-power-purse-threat/
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“…#Trump proposed cutting funds for the #Smithsonian by more than $60 million.
Congress rejected that cut and increased Smithsonian funding to account for inflation.
Vought’s office then unlawfully forbade the Smithsonian from spending any money Congress appropriated beyond the president’s budget request.
In both cases, Vought likely has been emboldened by the Impoundment Control Act’s lack of penalties for his unlawful withholding of funds.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/economy-budget/5973576-congress-power-purse-threat/
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RE: https://jb.md/@news/116988979237665572
#Trump #DonaldTrump #USA #America #UnitedStates #USPol #Smithsonian #Politics #History #Censorship #Maga #BBCNews #TrumpRegime #News #President I seem to remember the Nazi’s attempting to rewrite German history. This speaks volumes about the Trump Regime…
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RE: https://jb.md/@news/116988979237665572
#Trump #DonaldTrump #USA #America #UnitedStates #USPol #Smithsonian #News #Politics #History #Maga #Democracy #Censorship #BBCNews #TrumpRegime #President I seem to remember the Nazi’s attempting to rewrite German history. This speaks volumes about the Trump Regime…
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One of the very most absurd and offensive things that the trump administration has yet done in its destructive reign is surely its Domestic Policy Council (truly a think-tank of historical scholars...) reviewing the work done by the Smithsonian Institution chronicling history over its nearly 200 years of existence and finding it to be "inaccurate" and in need of disclaimers, warnings, and alterations.
Here is a group of people with the collective intellectual wattage of a wet match attempting to protect the country from "inaccurate" telling of America's history.If there is a group of individuals anywhere assembled that is less qualified to project their fallacious notions of history upon the Smithsonian (and America), I would like to see it!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-smithsonian-museum-warning-signs-inaccurate-information/
#Smithsonian #DC #WashingtonDC #policy #museums #news #NMOAH #America #AmericanHistory
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One of the very most absurd and offensive things that the trump administration has yet done in its destructive reign is surely its Domestic Policy Council (truly a think-tank of historical scholars...) reviewing the work done by the Smithsonian Institution chronicling history over its nearly 200 years of existence and finding it to be "inaccurate" and in need of disclaimers, warnings, and alterations.
Here is a group of people with the collective intellectual wattage of a wet match attempting to protect the country from "inaccurate" telling of America's history.If there is a group of individuals anywhere assembled that is less qualified to project their fallacious notions of history upon the Smithsonian (and America), I would like to see it!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-smithsonian-museum-warning-signs-inaccurate-information/
#Smithsonian #DC #WashingtonDC #policy #museums #news #NMOAH #America #AmericanHistory
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The executive order demands that NPS, which controls the sidewalks outside of several #Smithsonian museums along the #NationalMall, installs signs promoting a #WhiteHouse report that denigrated exhibits at the #NationalMuseumofAmericanHistory.
www.cnn.com/2026/07/24/p...
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The executive order demands that NPS, which controls the sidewalks outside of several #Smithsonian museums along the #NationalMall, installs signs promoting a #WhiteHouse report that denigrated exhibits at the #NationalMuseumofAmericanHistory.
www.cnn.com/2026/07/24/p...
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Oh look! The Carney Government and Trump Administration have at least some things in common: Criticism and tone policing of actual history that their government doesn’t appreciate.
“President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the installation of signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History that warn people that the museum does not accurately reflect American history while pointing them to material that does — a dramatic escalation in his campaign to wrest control of how the nation’s story is told.”
(Free archive link: https://archive.is/eS6ox)
“The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, a federal Crown corporation in Winnipeg, has faced a torrent of criticism over its exhibit on the Nakba — Arabic for "catastrophe." It's the term Palestinians use to describe Israel's declaration of independence in 1948, which led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
Culture Minister Marc Miller has said the museum failed by not naming Hamas in the exhibit, which opened to the public on June 27, as a terrorist organization that targets Jews, while Jewish and civil society groups say the exhibit portrays only one side of a complex history.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/human-rights-museum-nakba-exhibit-9.7279745
#history #politicialinterference #ideology #rightwing #canpoli #cdnpoli #canadianmuseumofHumanRights #CMHR #Smithsonian #theAmericanFascist #carneyCons
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Oh look! The Carney Government and Trump Administration have at least some things in common: Criticism and tone policing of actual history that their government doesn’t appreciate.
“President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the installation of signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History that warn people that the museum does not accurately reflect American history while pointing them to material that does — a dramatic escalation in his campaign to wrest control of how the nation’s story is told.”
(Free archive link: https://archive.is/eS6ox)
“The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, a federal Crown corporation in Winnipeg, has faced a torrent of criticism over its exhibit on the Nakba — Arabic for "catastrophe." It's the term Palestinians use to describe Israel's declaration of independence in 1948, which led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
Culture Minister Marc Miller has said the museum failed by not naming Hamas in the exhibit, which opened to the public on June 27, as a terrorist organization that targets Jews, while Jewish and civil society groups say the exhibit portrays only one side of a complex history.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/human-rights-museum-nakba-exhibit-9.7279745
#history #politicialinterference #ideology #rightwing #canpoli #cdnpoli #canadianmuseumofHumanRights #CMHR #Smithsonian #theAmericanFascist #carneyCons
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New York Times: Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum. This link goes to a gift article. “President Trump on Friday ordered warning signs and exhibits installed outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to alert the public that the museum does not, in his view, accurately reflect American history.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/26/new-york-times-trump-orders-warnings-placed-at-inaccurate-smithsonian-history-museum/ -
New York Times: Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum. This link goes to a gift article. “President Trump on Friday ordered warning signs and exhibits installed outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to alert the public that the museum does not, in his view, accurately reflect American history.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/26/new-york-times-trump-orders-warnings-placed-at-inaccurate-smithsonian-history-museum/ -
The #Smithsonian should put up signs saying “This museum contains exhibits that some fascists and white supremacists may find distressing”. #Trumpland #USFascism apple.news/AjAFA5RqzQna...
Trump orders Smithsonian to po... -
The #Smithsonian should put up signs saying “This museum contains exhibits that some fascists and white supremacists may find distressing”. #Trumpland #USFascism apple.news/AjAFA5RqzQna...
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The #Smithsonian should put up signs saying “This museum contains exhibits that some fascists and white supremacists may find distressing”. #Trumpland #USFascism https://apple.news/AjAFA5RqzQnaGslvkQcxRWA
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The #Smithsonian should put up signs saying “This museum contains exhibits that some fascists and white supremacists may find distressing”. #Trumpland #USFascism https://apple.news/AjAFA5RqzQnaGslvkQcxRWA
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Man könnte es staatstragenden Dekonstruktivismus nennen: Völlig zusammenhangslos beginnen, um sich dann konsequent von jedem Sinn zu entkoppeln.
"Trump orders content warnings installed outside Smithsonian history museum"
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/24/trump-content-warnings-smithsonian-01012076
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Man könnte es staatstragenden Dekonstruktivismus nennen: Völlig zusammenhangslos beginnen, um sich dann konsequent von jedem Sinn zu entkoppeln.
"Trump orders content warnings installed outside Smithsonian history museum"
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/24/trump-content-warnings-smithsonian-01012076
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Donald Trump Orders Warning Signs Outside The Smithsonian Over Historical Framing
#News #DonaldTrump #Smithsonianhttps://deadline.com/2026/07/donald-trump-smithsonian-1237003578/
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Donald Trump Orders Warning Signs Outside The Smithsonian Over Historical Framing
#News #DonaldTrump #Smithsonianhttps://deadline.com/2026/07/donald-trump-smithsonian-1237003578/
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#Trump orders #Smithsonian to post warnings about 'inaccurate' US history
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#Trump orders #Smithsonian to post warnings about 'inaccurate' US history
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Shouldn't he be more concerned with the #IllegalIranWar or #ExplosiveDiarrhea? "Trump’s Trigger Warnings" https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/07/trump-smithsonian-signs/688069/?utm_source=feed #uspoli #BigBabyTrump #EpsteinFiles #TrumpRegime #Smithsonian #history #DementiaDon #SleepyDon
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Trump is trying to force the #Smithsonian Institution's museums to present "accurate" information that is "inspiring, unifying, and worthy of our great republic."
His new tactic: Ordering "warning" signs be placed in front of the museums to inform visitors of "inaccurate" info & direct them to “locations and resources for accurate information regarding America’s history" 👀
#USA #USpol #trump #RewritingHistory #whitewashing #InformationControl #NineteenEightyFour
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