Smithsonian’s New Latino Museum May Receive an Existing Building

Changing the museum’s designated site to the Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall would bypass congressional approval.

The Smithsonian Institution is trying to use a loophole to sneak in a building for a yet-to-be-built controversial museum that remains homeless: the National Museum of the American Latino. It is an act of desperation by a museum complex beset with accusations of bias. The building, according to several sources, is the