![]() Smithsonian managers agreed to give me and a New York Times photographer, Erin Schaff, a tour beneath its most flood-exposed building, the National Museum of American History. ![]() In a document issued this fall, the Smithsonian Institution warned that increased flooding on the National Mall, the two-mile-long park in the heart of Washington that houses most of its museums, threatened to outpace the Smithsonian’s ability to defend those museums and their priceless contents. The largest museum complex in the world is struggling to protect itself against the effects of climate change - a warning about the difficulty of adapting to warming, even for organizations with top experts and deep pockets.
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