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If they're upset about the statue outside of the museum, they'll be irate about most of the contents of it. That whole back-left corner of the museum is fascin
by thrower123 5y ago
If they're upset about the statue outside of the museum, they'll be irate about most of the contents of it.
That whole back-left corner of the museum is fascinating anthropologically, but not exactly ideologically aligned nowadays.
- jfengel 5y agoThey're aware of it, and gradually updating it. There's a diorama right up front that they have deliberately kept in all its racist glory. They've annotated it with over a dozen signs explaining everything that's wrong with it, from the literally-identical Native American faces to their supplicating postures. The signage explains how they're working on fixing that throughout the museum, but that it's going to take time.