Robert McCormick Adams, who led Smithsonian into era of ‘confrontation, experimentation and debate,’ dies at 91

Robert McCormick Adams, the former chief of the Smithsonian Institution who played a critical role in opening new museums and sought to make “confrontation, experimentation and debate” part of the Smithsonian’s mandate, died Jan. 27 at a care center in Chula Vista, California. He was 91. His daughter, Megan Adams, said she did not know […]