SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Definition & Meaning

Smithsonian Institution

[ smith-soh-nee-uhn ]

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an institution in Washington, D.C., founded 1846 with a grant left by James Smithson, for the increase and diffusion of knowledge: U.S. national museum and repository.

Smithsonian Institution

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noun

a national museum and institution in Washington, D.C., founded in 1846 from a bequest by James Smithson, primarily concerned with ethnology, zoology, and astrophysics

Smithsonian Institution

A group of over a dozen museums and research and publication facilities, such as the National Air and Space Museum, the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of History and Technology, the National Zoo, and the National Gallery of Art . Many of the Smithsonian's buildings are on the Washington Mall . The institution is named after James Smithson, an Englishman whose bequest enabled its founding in the nineteenth century.

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NPR and PBS are old targets, but we’ve been lately hustled into a world in which the Smithsonian Institution is being examined for “improper ideology,” a phrase that smacks of Maoism, and an era of Orwellian inversions in which affirmative action becomes “reverse discrimination,” and any mention of difference is declared “divisive.”

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President Trump accused the Smithsonian Institution of propagating “divisive, race-based ideology” and issued an executive order Thursday demanding an end to federal funding for exhibitions and programs based on racial themes that “divide Americans.”

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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 New York City.

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Sojin Kim, now a curator at the Smithsonian Institution, began creating archives of Lee’s life when it appeared his health was failing.

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The Smithsonian Institution in 2022 declared it could not change the name of its Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at its National Museum of Asian Art because “the 1982 gift agreement requires that the facility and original collection retain the name of Arthur M. Sackler in perpetuity.”

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