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Cultural Heritage Partners (CHP) is a private law firm with a public mission: to leverage humanity’s past to create a better future. CHP takes on matters that advance the principle of access to cultural heritage as a human right.

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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Amy Weinhouse, in-house counsel at Piedmont Environmental Council, speaks out about Section 106 👏https://richmond.com/opinion/column/article_80ed2149-b5fb-4fb0-9059-a962dda0ec99.html
richmond.com
Federal changes threaten America’s historic and cultural sites | Guest column
Federal changes to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act could weaken protections, limit public input and threaten America’s cultural heritage.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
📣 We're building a resource bank as part of our online War Room to allow folks to quickly find relevant data and examples to personalize their comments for the Section 106 regulations. Learn more and upload info to share here:
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Let’s build a Section 106 Resource Bank that Fights Back! - Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC
Cultural Heritage Partners is a private law firm committed to the principle that cultural heritage is a human right.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Preservationists: Now is the time to lead and to fight back. Check out Marion Werkheiser's latest post urging our field to recognize the moment we’re in and rise up to meet it: www.culturalheritagepartners.com/preserving-t...
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Preserving the Truth: Why Historic Preservation Must Lead in the Fight for American Memory - Cultural Heritage Partners
As preservationists, we have both the tools and the responsibility to ensure that the truth survives. Let’s give ourselves—and each other—permission to lead.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The president’s economic strategies, often announced abruptly and enforced with little warning, are creating ripple effects across industries and the art market is no exception. #art #ArtMarketTrends
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How Trump Has Brought the Art Market to the Brink of 'Paralysis' | Artnet News
Trump’s second-term tariffs are forcing the art industry to rethink sales strategies, cross-border deals, and fair participation worldwide.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Frustrated that their objections to oil and gas drilling in Chaco Canyon were being ignored, Picuris officials asked University of Copenhagen evolutionary geneticist Eske Willerslev to fill in gaps in their tribal history using genetic data. #ChacoCanyon #indigenousrights #NativeAmerican
sciencenews.org
A Pueblo tribe recruited scientists to reclaim its ancient American history
DNA supports modern Picuris Pueblo accounts of ancestry going back more than 1,000 years to Chaco Canyon society.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
So far, only 26 places in the United States have been designated as UNESCO World Heritage sites. The U.S. Interior Department put the refuge up for consideration in December. #UNESCOWorldHeritage #CulturalHeritage #HistoricLandmarks #AmericanHistory
abcnews.go.com
A former Trump official backs World Heritage status for the vast Okefenokee Swamp
President Donald Trump's former agriculture secretary wants the administration to support adding the Okefenokee Swamp's vast wildlife refuge to a United Nations list of World Heritage site
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
💐135 historic cemeteries have been registered and a visual glossary has been launched with hundreds of photos from around the state. #HistoricCemeteries #CemeteryHistory #Louisianna #culturalheritage
theadvocate.com
Louisiana historic preservation group registering cemeteries across the state
Since launched six months ago, 135 historic cemeteries have been registered in the Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation's Louisiana Register of Historic Cemeteries
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“No divisive political decision will ever shake my commitment to Holocaust remembrance and education or to combatting hate and antisemitism. I will continue to speak out, to educate, and to fight hate in all its forms—because silence is never an option” - Doug Emhoff #HolocaustRemembrance #museums
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
❗The U.S. is by far the world’s largest art market, but it is also one of a dwindling number of jurisdictions where art sales are not subject to any anti-money laundering regulations at all. #ArtMarket #ArtLaw #culturalheritage
thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org
Cartels and terrorists love American art — and the money it hides
Art has often been treated as nothing more than an asset by the wealthy, but it need not be one that criminals can use to spread death and misery.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
😍The Mellon Foundation on Tuesday announced $15 million in emergency funding for state humanities councils across the country, throwing what advocates say is a crucial lifeline after the cancellation of federal support had left some in danger of collapse. #humanities #culturalheritage
nytimes.com
Mellon Foundation Announces $15 Million for Humanities Councils
The emergency funding came after the National Endowment for the Humanities canceled most existing grants, part of a pivot toward President Trump’s priorities.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
➡️Doing so effectively created a new class of emergency permit to fast track energy projects across the country. But environmental advocates worry this will harm the ability of the public to weigh in on projects that will contribute to climate change and harm sensitive ecosystems. #permitting
grist.org
Trump is bypassing community input to fast-track energy projects that risk pollution
On his first day as president, Trump declared an energy "emergency" that shrunk the time for public scrutiny of potentially risky projects.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🎯The impact has been swift and shocking to many in the cultural field, raising questions about what the arts will look like under Trump and spurring calls for a co-ordinated resistance. #ArtCommunity #ArtsAdvocacy #culturalheritage
theartnewspaper.com
‘It’s much more extreme’: US institutions and artists enter a new culture war
The Trump administration’s efforts to slash funding and influence programming have pushed cultural workers to organise
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
❤️"I'm so impressed with the use of modern technology to give dignity to these long-ignored and forgotten African American soldiers," Holly K. Norton, the state archaeologist of Colorado, who was not involved in the research, told Live Science. #kentuckyhistory #archaeology #AfricanAmericanHistory
livescience.com
Mass graves of Black Union soldiers slaughtered by Confederate guerrillas possibly identified in Kentucky
Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas in the Civil War.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🎨🖌️But how did Renaissance art lead to the mathematics that govern modern cryptography? The tale spans six centuries and two continents and touches on infinity itself. #fineart #historymatters #RenaissanceArt
scientificamerican.com
This Cutting-Edge Encryption Originates in Renaissance Art and Math
The mathematics underpinning the modern method of elliptic curve cryptography originated with Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
📢Organizers are calling on local groups throughout the week to support Black museums, libraries and other institutions in their communities. Civil rights leaders also signed an affirmation to support the preservation of Black history. #culturalheritage #museums #historymatters #HandsOffOurHistory
usatoday.com
Civil rights leaders rally around National Museum of African American History
Civil rights leaders launched a #HandsOffOurHistory campaign to rally to protect Black history from Trump's executive orders.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Senior officials say tens of thousands of artefacts were either destroyed or shipped off to be sold during the time the RSF was in control of central Khartoum, where the museum is situated. #culturalheritage #museums #SudanHeritage
bbc.com
Sudan: How war ravaged museums and priceless artefacts
Sudan's national museum is among the institutions that have been looted and vandalised during the war.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Tribal Chairman Mark Fox said the goal is to establish a park for cultural and recreational purposes such as canoeing, kayaking and viewing wildlife. #TribalHeritage #indigenous
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New tribal national park in North Dakota aims to preserve rugged and scenic landscape
A new tribal national park in North Dakota is opening a little-seen area of the rugged Badlands to hikers and other outdoors enthusiasts
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
CONFIDENTIAL CONVERSATIONS WELCOME - Let us know what you're seeing. 🤐Use our secure channels to highlight when cultural resources are at risk! #permitting#archaeology #culturalheritage #historicpreservation
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In hearings last year, the district attorney's office accused the Chicago museum of ignoring evidence of an elaborate fraud undertaken to conceal that the artwork had been stolen from Mr. Grünbaum by the Nazis on the eve of World War II. #ArtRestitution #NaziLootedArt #ArtLaw
nytimes.com
Museum Told to Surrender Schiele Drawing to Heirs of Man Killed by Nazis
A New York judge found that the Art Institute of Chicago’s drawing by Egon Schiele had been looted from an Austrian Jew who died in a concentration camp.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🚨National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA): Wednesday’s notice authorizes DOI bureaus to follow alternative procedures for compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act for proposed undertakings responding to the energy emergency. #permitting #archaeology #culturalheritage
forbes.com
Trump, Burgum Move To Slash Energy Project Permitting Time
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum moved in Wednesday to implement streamlined permitting procedures for energy projects on federal lands.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
When he's not at his day job at Green Valley Auctions, Botkin is often out documenting burial sites and scouring old newspapers and vital records for evidence of the people interred there. #BurialSiteResearch #CemeteryExploration
wmra.org
No stone left unrecorded: a grave researcher's quest through Highland
One local researcher has documented more than 11,000 graves in Highland County and the surrounding areas – uncovering tales of intrigue, tragedy, and joy. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🪃Tucked deep within a West Texas cave, archaeologists discovered what is likely the oldest intact weapon system ever found in North America. ⁀➴ #ArchaeologicalFinds #CulturalHeritage #Archaeology #TexasHistory
popularmechanics.com
Archaeologists Found a 6,500-Year-Old Hunting Kit With Poisoned Darts Inside
Spear-throwers and boomerangs, anyone?
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
REGISTER NOW! ⚖️ Marion Werkheiser will discuss how recent Trump administration actions may permit federal agencies to rubber stamp projects without public input, meaningful consultation with Tribes, or any obligation to avoid or mitigate damage to historic properties. lnkd.in/eaePjaPC #law
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The 2,200-year-old statue of a man, which has been in the museum’s collection since 1991, dates to the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt and is believed to have been looted from the Ptolemais Museum in modern-day Libya during World War II. #MuseumCollection #CulturalHeritage #Archaeology
cleveland.com
Cleveland Museum of Art agrees to transfer ownership of ancient statue to Libya
The Department of Antiquities of the State of Libya and the Cleveland Museum of Art have agreed to a transfer of a statue acquired by the museum 34 years ago.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
♀️These leaders advocate and take action, transforming Montana’s policy landscape and inspiring future generations. #MontanaPolitics #Indigenous #NativeAmerican
msmagazine.com
In Montana, Native Women Are Reshaping Politics and Reclaiming Civic Space
Amid political uncertainty, Native American women in Montana are leading social justice movements and shaping public policy. Historically marginalized in policymaking, Native voices are now gaining eq...
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🚨This move may sound merely bureaucratic on the surface, but a little probing reveals deep cause for alarm.
slate.com
America’s National Parks Are in Some Very Serious Trouble
U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum just handed the country’s public lands over to a DOGE staffer and former oil exec.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
❗Cultural property made of valuable metals, including outdoor sculptures and historical markers from cemeteries, parks, bridges, and buildings, has also been stolen, creating wounds that go deeper than cracks from a crowbar. #CulturalHeritage #ArtTheft #LosAngeles
getty.edu
When Cultural Heritage Is Scrapped for Cash
Scrap metal thieves in Los Angeles are targeting cherished public artworks and markers of the city’s history
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A Gordon County judge ordered more testing after accusations that a subdivision under construction is encroaching on a historic cemetery. #HistoricPreservation #CemeteryProtection
fox5atlanta.com
Gordon County development may be encroaching on historic plantation cemetery
The Gordon County Civic Club is fighting a housing development being built next to the Colbert Cemetery in Calhoun.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Environmentalists, local opponents and members of the San Carlos Apache Tribe lambasted the administration’s decision to move forward without a ruling from the court. #culturalheritage #Arizona
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Trump administration plans to allow mining of sacred Oak Flat, leapfrogging courts - AZ Luminaria
The Trump administration on Wednesday signaled it intends to approve a land transfer that will allow a foreign company to mine a sacred Indigenous site in Arizona, where local tribes and environmental...
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
😍“The idea is that we’re going to capture every single stone today, every single name, and hopefully that will help descendants and future researchers find out more about their roots,” she said. #CulturalHeritage #Genealogy #historymatters
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Nando’s has been buying South African art to display in its peri-peri chicken restaurants globally since 2004, amassing a collection of about 32,000 pieces from 700 artists and becoming one of the country’s most significant supporters of visual artists. #art #culturalheritage
theguardian.com
Peri-peri patron: how Nando’s amassed a huge collection of South African art
Chicken chain has been buying up art since 2004, which it displays on walls of its restaurants
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Across the country, state departments of transportation are involved in a variety of cultural and archaeological efforts – many involving Native American communities. #CulturalHeritage #NativeAmericanCulture #Transportation
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AASHTO Journal - New Native American Art Decorates Ferry Terminal
A pair of 10-foot-tall hand-carved Native American-themed “welcome poles” were recently installed in the passenger walkway at the Washington State Ferries (WSF) Bainbridge Island terminal. [Above phot...
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
👉“We suggest further archaeological assessment take place at the now more closely defined ‘Meaher’s Hummock’ with probable prehistoric, historic, and maritime archaeological remains from the indigenous shell mounds, the sawmill, shipyard, and original settlement of the community before 1865”
al.com
Rail project clears federal review despite concerns in Africatown community
The Alabama Port Authority's Chickasaw Lead Line project has raised concerns because of its proximity to a historic district.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
🚨“The White House is asserting the power, essentially, to regulate or to deregulate by executive order. That is novel,” said Nina Mendelson, a law professor at the University of Michigan. #culturalheritage #historicpreservation
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
❤️The tribe is also planning to build a small visitors’ center on the newly acquired land, new pow wow grounds, walking trails and public education and recreation opportunities #landback #indigenous #culturalheritage #NativeAmerican
virginiamercury.com
Rappahannock Tribe acquires nearly 1,000 acres along its namesake river • Virginia Mercury
It's the Virginia tribe's largest land rematriation to date
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“Nobody else should be burying their families because these rogue, rich, white, racist people continue to build projects that are suffocating us,” Pearson said. “This is all preventable.”
theguardian.com
Elon Musk’s xAI powering its facility in Memphis with ‘illegal’ generators
Advocacy group says the firm has doubled the number of methane gas burning turbines it’s using without permits
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
❤️‍🩹...the history-making transplant using Tucker’s heart was part of a recurring pattern of similar violations over centuries in U.S. and Virginia history. #culturalheritage #historymatters #VCU
washingtonpost.com
A university confronts the dark history of a stolen heart in a vibrant way
A Black man’s heart was used without permission in a landmark surgery. Virginia Commonwealth University is making sure people know his story.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
❤️‍🩹...the history-making transplant using Tucker’s heart was part of a recurring pattern of similar violations over centuries in U.S. and Virginia history. #culturalheritage #historymatters #VCU
washingtonpost.com
A university confronts the dark history of a stolen heart in a vibrant way
A Black man’s heart was used without permission in a landmark surgery. Virginia Commonwealth University is making sure people know his story.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
❗There is perhaps no institution on earth whose opening has been as wildly anticipated, or as mind-bogglingly delayed, as the Grand Egyptian Museum outside Cairo. #CulturalHeritage #Archaeology #HistoricSites #Cairo #GrandEgyptianMuseum
nytimes.com
The Grand Egyptian Museum Is Finally Open. (Well, Mostly.)
The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
📌The site, which houses the Freedom Rides Museum, is “an essential historical landmark that not only honors the legacy of the Freedom Riders but also educates the public about our nation’s struggle for equality and justice.” #HistoricalLandmark #HistoryMatters #museum #culturalheritage
washingtonpost.com
Freedom Riders faced a mob at this bus station. DOGE wanted to sell it.
The landmark site in Montgomery, Alabama, was deemed “not core to government operations,” and other stops in U.S. civil rights history could also be at risk.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The Sudan National Museum has been wrecked by two years of war in Sudan, with most of its artifacts stolen. #CulturalHeritage #museums
apnews.com
Home to centuries of heritage, Sudan's biggest museum is looted and wrecked by a 2-year war
The exhibition halls of Sudan's biggest museum were once filled with statues and relics from centuries of ancient civilizations.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
President Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders since returning to the White House is shaking up the art world. #ArtNews #FineArt #CulturalHeritage
news.artnet.com
A Running List of How the Trump Administration Is Impacting the Arts
Follow this ongoing list to stay updated on how President Trump's executive orders and policy changes are impacting the arts.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
🚨President Trump is trying to repeal regulations without going through the notice and comment period. 🚨
govexec.com
Trump directive aims to speed up deregulation by nixing public input
Advocacy groups have already announced they would challenge the president’s effort in court.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
🚨More cuts to Interior's workforce are coming... #InteriorDepartment #culturalheritage
govexec.com
Interior Department to consolidate functions across the country, leading to widespread layoffs
Changes are expected to be implemented in the coming weeks.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
➡️In a series of executive orders, President Donald Trump is reshaping the way America’s history is presented in places that people around the world visit. #historymatters #culturalheritage #museum #Smithsonian wapo.st/44lJ5Q8
wapo.st
Trump says he’s erasing ‘shame.’ Critics say he’s hiding historic truths.
Changes in the name of preserving President Donald Trump’s version of American history, experts say, would minimize the accomplishments of people of color and women while downplaying the challenges th...
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
⚠️We need you to be on the lookout to help us IDENTIFY situations where cultural resources are at risk - find out what to look for here! ⚠️ #culturalheritage #HeritageAtRisk #HeritageConservation
culturalheritagepartners.com
TELL US WHERE CULTURAL RESOURCES ARE AT RISK - Cultural Heritage Partners
Recent regulatory changes at both the national and local levels—including executive orders aimed at speeding up the permitting process for all energy-related projects, the rescission of National Envir...
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
📌Greg Werkheiser, CHP co-founder, details how the Trump administration's actions threaten museums that tell America's multicultural story. #museums #culturalheritage #MuseumStories #HeritageSites
bbc.com
Which US will tourists find when they visit?
Recent changes by the Trump administration are affecting how US museums and institutions tell the nation's multicultural history to travellers.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The need for these museums — the urgent need to undo profound acts of erasure — helped shape public history throughout the country. #CulturalHeritage #MuseumAdvocacy #Smithsonian wapo.st/4jwZ5Dx
wapo.st
Column | The Smithsonian could be the beginning of Trump’s plan to edit history. Or the end.
The president may not like how the museum and research institution tells the American story — but Americans do.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
For centuries, American institutions have flattened Native existence into a relic of the past, a historical footnote to be studied rather than a living, evolving force. Yet, as Indigenous Identities makes clear, the so-called “past” is still unfolding. #CulturalHeritage #Indigenous #NativeAmerican
hyperallergic.com
Indigenous Art History Has Been Waiting for You to Catch Up
The late Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s final curatorial salvo — the largest show of Native American art to date — carries an elegiac weight, but also thrums with life.
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Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
As plans unfold, Harlem’s African Burial Ground will become a powerful symbol of remembrance and resilience—honoring those buried there while educating future generations about their enduring legacy. #CulturalHeritage #Harlem #HistoricalSite
harlemworldmagazine.com
New York City’s Plan To Honor Harlem’s African Burial Ground
A historic bus depot might soon transform into a memorial site honoring enslaved and free Africans, telling a special story of American history in Harlem.
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