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Smithsonian museum director to move to Guggenheim: ‘a moment of change’

Melissa Chiu, director of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden for 12 years, is leaving to become director of New York's Guggenheim Museum. Her departure follows several other recent leadership changes at Smithsonian museums, though she denies it relates to political pressures from the Trump administration.