Under Secretary for Museums and Culture

Kevin Gover is the Under Secretary for Museums and Culture at the Smithsonian. The Office of the Under Secretary for Museums and Culture oversees the Institution’s history and art museums, its cultural centers, and the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Exhibits and the National Collections Program. He had served as director of the National Museum of the American Indian from 2007 until January 2021.

Kevin Gover

Under Secretary for Museums and Culture
Lisa Sasaki

Deputy Under Secretary for Special Projects
Melanie A. Adams

Interim Director of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum
Katelynd Anderson

Interim Director, Anacostia Community Museum
Shanita Brackett

Acting Director, National Museum of African American History and Culture
Jane Carpenter-Rock

Acting Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Melissa Chiu

Director, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Elliot Gruber

Acting Director, National Portrait Gallery
Anthea M. Hartig

Elizabeth MacMillan Director, National Museum of American History
Anne Helmreich

Director, Archives of American Art
Cynthia Chavez Lamar

Director, National Museum of the American Indian
John K. Lapiana

Director, National Museum of African Art
Toby Mensforth

Acting Director, Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum
Clifford Murphy

Director, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Maria Nicanor

Director, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Matthew O’Connor

Acting Director, Smithsonian Exhibits
Chase F. Robinson

Dame Jillian Sackler Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
William Tompkins

Director, National Collections Program
Yao-Fen You

Acting Director, Asian Pacific American Center
Jorge Zamanillo

Director, National Museum of the American Latino