Geraldine Kendall Adams, Trump interference could have ‘chilling effect across entire museum sector’, Museums Journal, 19 August 2025

US museum bodies speak out against ‘growing threat’ of government censorship.

Museum sector bodies in the US have expressed alarm at the “growing threat” of censorship and political interference in museums from the Trump administration.

The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the Organization of American Historians (OAH) and the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) are among the organisations to speak out after the White House wrote to Smithsonian Institution secretary Lonnie Bunch last week ordering an internal review of the institution’s exhibitions and materials.

Read more: More than 150 US arts organisations pledge to resist political pressure