The Smithsonian Institution is closing its diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. The decision will affect dozens of American museums, research centers and libraries, as well as the National Zoo.

The Smithsonian Institution is closing its Office of Diversity, freezing federal hiring and ordering employees back to in-office work, according to an email sent by Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III.

The museum’s move followed a similar one last week by the National Gallery, as museums try to comply with an executive order that called diversity programs “illegal and immoral.”

In a staff-wide email, the organization said it was complying with Trump’s executive order banning federally funded diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

An executive order by Donald Trump prohibits all DEI programs at federal institutions. Some have already dismantled them.

The Smithsonian Institution will close its Office of Diversity, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday, after President Donald Trump’s executive order on DEI.

Just days after the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. said it would cancel its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, the Smithsonian Institution, a consortium that includes 21 national museums,

A Trump executive order has led the largely government-funded institutions to roll back their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives