The Trump administration’s threats to the country’s cultural institutions became clear on the president’s first day in office, with a cascading passage of executive orders rejecting, among other things, diversity, equity and inclusion programs, gender ideology and what one order called efforts to “rewrite history.”

In just a few months, such policies — and the subsequent disruption of grants from now-imperiled cultural agencies like the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) — have put intense pressure not just on federal institutions like the Smithsonian, but on thousands of museums, galleries, archives and cultural agencies, with ripple effects spreading to cities and towns in every c

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