2026-05-28T22:56:43.115Z / https://www.cnn.com/206/05/28/politics/lonnie-bunch-smithsonian-america-250
- 史密森学会负责人朗尼·邦奇三世正在为筹备建国250周年纪念展览的同时，应对来自特朗普政府的政治压力。
- 在一次罕见的采访中，邦奇表示，自史密森学会提交了白宫要求审查的相关文件后，白宫并未要求做出任何修改、补充新文件或提出新意见。
- 这场新展览旨在展现美国的奋斗与愿景。展出物品包括托马斯·杰斐逊的书桌、加州淘金热中发现的第一块金块，以及马丁·路德·金《我有一个梦想》演讲稿的手写草稿等诸多藏品。
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一年多来，作为享誉世界的史密森学会负责人，朗尼·邦奇三世一直处于政治风波的中心。
在唐纳德·特朗普的第二任总统任期内，作为全球最大的博物馆机构、美国历史叙事塑造的关键声音，史密森学会面临着移除“觉醒意识形态”内容的压力。
在周四的一次罕见采访中，邦奇坚称，尽管该机构已“提供了白宫要求审查学会及其展览的所有相关材料”，但史密森学会仍保持了自身的独立性。
邦奇告诉CNN，截至目前，白宫尚未提出任何修改或更新要求。
“我们正静候通知。”他说。
史密森学会负责人：特朗普政府未干预建国250周年展览
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在应对特朗普对史密森学会的批评期间，邦奇大多时候都未曾公开露面，如今他协助策划了自担任学会秘书以来的首个展览，以纪念美国建国250周年。
尽管特朗普是今年夏天其他庆祝活动的核心焦点，但这位历史学家、首位担任史密森学会负责人的非裔美国人表示，特朗普政府并未干预他的展览构思或展品遴选。
“我的目标是让历史由学术研究驱动，而非党派政治。”他说，“史密森学会始终依靠自身的学术研究，这一直是我们的行事准则。我们始终与不同届的政府合作，但一切都基于我们的学术研究成果。”
这场名为“美国愿景”的展览将于6月2日在标志性的史密森尼城堡开幕。该场馆自2023年起因翻新工程关闭，届时将临时重新开放。
展览汇集了史密森学会各馆藏的物品，以探讨该学会所称的“塑造美国的理想、抱负与矛盾”。
展出的物品包括托马斯·杰斐逊起草《独立宣言》时使用的书桌、阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特的飞行服、废奴主义者弗雷德里克·道格拉斯撰写的海报，以及1848年加州淘金热中发现的第一块金块。
邦奇告诉CNN，他特别希望展出早期的自由女神像模型，因为该模型展现了美国奋斗故事的演变历程。他提到了自由女神像脚下断裂的锁链——这是解放和废除奴隶制的象征。
他指出，如今许多人将自由女神像视为美国接纳移民的象征，但“它最初之所以被创作出来，是因为法国人对美国终结奴隶制印象深刻。”
“所以你真正想让人们理解的是，这一切是如何相互关联的。这也是这场展览对我而言意义非凡的原因。”他说。
马丁·路德·金《我有一个梦想》演讲稿的原始手写草稿（由维拉诺瓦大学出借）以及哈丽特·塔布曼的赞美诗诗集也将在展览期间部分时段展出，原因是这些藏品较为脆弱。
特朗普此前曾就史密森学会对美国奴隶制的展示表达不满，去年8月他在社交媒体帖子中写道：“史密森学会已经失控，那里只讨论我们国家多么糟糕、奴隶制多么罪恶，以及受压迫者多么一事无成——丝毫没有提及成功、光明和未来。”
尽管“美国愿景”展览并未回避奴隶制话题，但邦奇表示，正如更宏大的美国叙事一样，这场展览“不只是讲述奴隶制的故事”。“它讲述的是美国为成为我们期望的国家而奋斗的故事。”
“美国是一项未完成的事业。”他补充道，“它最大的优势不在于认为自己已经抵达应许之地，而在于……我们将继续为建设更美好的美国而努力。”
史密森学会建国250周年展览反映了围绕实现建国者理想的紧张局势
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然而，这场强调民主希望与愿景的展览，正值批评人士指责特朗普政府侵蚀这些理想之际。
CNN此前曾报道，一些艺术家感到担忧，认为史密森学会博物馆存在“审查”氛围。
邦奇在接受CNN采访时表示，他认为“90%的史密森学会场馆都完全符合你们的期望”。
“总会有调整，因为基本上有些展览需要升级。”他说，“史密森学会的重要意义在于，我们希望人们能够直面历史的细微差别与复杂性。”
As America celebrates its 250th, Smithsonian leader Lonnie Bunch treads a fine political line
2026-05-28T22:56:43.115Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/28/politics/lonnie-bunch-smithsonian-america-250
- Smithsonian leader Lonnie Bunch III is navigating political pressure from the Trump administration while curating a 250th anniversary exhibition.
- In a rare interview, Bunch says the White House has not requested any changes, new documents or inputs since the Smithsonian turned over documents the administration requested for a review.
- A new exhibition aims to give a sense of America’s struggles and aspirations. Items on display include Thomas Jefferson’s desk, the first nugget found in the California gold rush and MLK’s handwritten “I Have a Dream” draft, among others.
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For over a year, Lonnie Bunch III, the head of the storied Smithsonian Institution, has been at the center of a political tempest.
Under President Donald Trump’s second administration, the world’s largest museum institution and a key voice in shaping the narrative of America’s history has been under pressure to remove “woke” ideology.
In a rare interview on Thursday, Bunch insisted the Smithsonian has maintained its autonomy even as the institution has “given everything that’s been asked” by the White House for its review of the institution and its exhibits.
So far, Bunch told CNN, the White House has not requested any changes or updates.
“We wait to hear,” he said.
Smithsonian chief: Trump administration did not direct 250th exhibit
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After largely staying out of the public eye as he contends with Trump’s criticism of the Smithsonian, Bunch has helped curate his first exhibition since becoming its secretary – a display to mark America’s 250th birthday.
While Trump looms large over other celebrations planned for this summer, the historian and first Black American to serve as head of the Smithsonian says the administration did not play any part in his thinking or selections.
“My goal is that history is driven by scholarship, not partisanship,” he said. “The Smithsonian always does its own scholarship. It’s always driven by that. We have always worked with different administrations, but it’s always about what our scholarship tells us.”
The exhibition, titled “American Aspirations,” is on view beginning June 2 at the iconic Smithsonian castle, which had been closed since 2023 for renovations, but will reopen temporarily.
It brings together objects from across the Smithsonian’s collections to explore what the institution calls the “ideals, ambitions, and contradictions” that have shaped the United States.
Among the objects that will be featured are the desk where Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence; Amelia Earhart’s flight suit; a poster written by abolitionist Frederick Douglass; and the first gold nugget to have been discovered during the California gold rush of 1848.
Bunch told CNN an early model of the Statue of Liberty was among the items he especially wanted to include, as it exemplifies how the story of American struggle has evolved. He pointed to the broken shackles at her feet – a symbol of liberation and the abolition of slavery.
He noted that today, many see the Statue of Liberty as a symbol of America’s embrace of immigration – but “it was initially created because people in France were so impressed that America ended slavery,” he said.
“So really what you want people to understand is how this is all interconnected. And that’s why it’s so beautiful to me,” he said.
The original handwritten draft of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, on loan from Villanova University, and Harriet Tubman’s hymnal will also be on view during part of the exhibition run due to their fragility.
Trump has previously vented frustrations with the Smithsonian’s handling of slavery in America, writing in a social media post last August that “the Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future.”
While the “American Aspirations” does not ignore slavery, the exhibition, like the larger American narrative, is “not a story of just slavery,” Bunch said. “It’s a story of America’s struggle to be the nation that we want it to be.”
“America is a work in progress,” he added. “Its greatest strength is not to think that it’s arrived at the promised land but … we continue to do to work towards a better America.”
Smithsonian exhibit for 250th reflects tensions over reaching Founders’ ideals
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Yet the exhibition’s emphasis on hope and aspirations for democracy come at a moment when critics accuse the Trump administration of eroding those ideals.
CNN previously reported that some artists had felt concerned by what they saw as an atmosphere of “censorship” at the Smithsonian’s museums.
Bunch, for his part, told CNN he believes that “90% of the Smithsonian is exactly where you want it to be.”
“There are always changes because basically there are exhibits that get upgraded,” he said. “The great importance of the Smithsonian is that what we want people to do is grapple with nuance and complexity.”
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