"Regents voted to put the museum in a 145-year-old building instead of constructing a new one, which would require congressional approval."
"The Smithsonian Institution announced Monday that it will put its National Museum of the American Latino in a 145-year-old building on the National Mall instead of constructing a new one.
The Smithsonian’s Board of Regents voted Monday to house the American Latino museum, which Congress created in 2020 but which has lacked a permanent home, in the Arts and Industries Building, a 258,000-square-foot redbrick Victorian structure next to the institution’s headquarters.
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Jorge Zamanillo, the museum’s director, called the decision “a major milestone in a dream and effort of decades in the making.”"
Jonathan Edwards reports for the Washington Post August 31, 2026.
