that thing where you work in an adjacent field long enough and when someone says museums you start thinking immediately about labor, provenance, The Rich TM, and other things vs. "oh I love an art!"
historical society museum / Dakota 38+2
anyway, the Minnesota Historical Society is refusing to repatriate a noose
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6J276GJ2AO/?igsh=MWhpdGwyZzJjOHFraw%3D%3D&img_index=7
Sometimes the best thing to do with an object is not preserve it forever but to properly dispose of it in a way that supports healing and resolution for those most harmed.
Incidentally MNHS is complaining that this is “misinformation” because they have 90 days to make a determination on a claim and they have not yet made a determination, and it has only been 60 days… Which I do feel like determination should take a week maximum. Like come the fuck on.
@Satsuma yeah, like -- 90 days is there as a generous number and really more for things which aren't well known like this.
I hope the pressure works enough to let them be like "we were gonna do the right thing all along" only because that would involve doing the right thing