The Smithsonian Institution missed its end-of-year deadline to lock in sites for two new museums, a stumbling block in the yearslong effort to advance the proposed American Women’s History and American Latino museums.
The museum operator’s board of regents had until Tuesday to designate sites for the new museums based on 2020 legislation authorizing the search. It appeared poised to hit that target when it said in October it had homed in on “two optimal sites” from a larger pool of 14,…
