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.

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The president complained in an executive order that the Smithsonian had advanced “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”

The Smithsonian, which oversees numerous museums and cultural centers, including the Air and Space Museum and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, is coming under criticism from President Donald Trump.

But in the process of airing the administration's grievances, the document specifically calls out a Smithsonian display for accurately describing our current scientific understanding of race. That raises the prospect that the vice president will ultimately demand that the Smithsonian display scientifically inaccurate information.

A new executive order from President Donald Trump is attempting to end displays and programs at Smithsonian museums that “divide Americans based on race” and “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.

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

Donald Trump is trying to change the kind of history that gets explored and explained inside the Smithsonian museums, but who owns them?

The National Museum of Natural History recently spruced up its iconic African elephant mount, which has greeted visitors since 1959

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human