Banned Lion Diorama

[Fixfire]

Carnegie Museum bans controversial diorama, enacts new policy

A popular but controversial diorama the Carnegie Museum of Natural History displayed for museum-goers for more than 120 years will be permanently removed from public view, due to a newly enacted human-remains policy, museum officials said Thursday. The Oakland museum’s move, in the works for...

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Thoughts??

 

[Doug3006]

So the riders head was constructed using a real human skull. Why not replace it with a facsimile and not pull a popular diorama?

 

[Fixfire]

So the riders head was constructed using a real human skull. Why not replace it with a facsimile and not pull a popular diorama?

Good point!!

 

[baxterb]

So the riders head was constructed using a real human skull. Why not replace it with a facsimile and not pull a popular diorama?

Good question. I am afraid we are going to get to a point where only crayon drawings will be accepted due to ‘sensitivity’ concerns.

 

[Red Leg]

Good thing they aren't curators of a half dozen Egyptian mummies.

 

[Fixfire]

Actually, I believe they are!! They are an old, large, very well funded organization.

 

[Fixfire]

If you read further down the article you will find the true reason for the ban, unfortunately.

 

[RR 314]

If you read further down the article you will find the true reason for the ban, unfortunately.

Yup. Racist lion attacking a native N. African. If attacking a boer in S. Africa, would likely be celebrated.

 

[Josh P]

Good thing they aren't curators of a half dozen Egyptian mummies.

I wonder if they have any "mummy ink" illustrations.

 

[baxterb]

Yup. Racist lion attacking a native N. African. If attacking a boer in S. Africa, would likely be celebrated.

I read an article a few years ago on this and someone was pointing to the “inaccurate” clothing selections because they didn’t match. Said it was a sign of cultural insensitivity…as if it were not possible a person who travelled far and wide in such a sparse landscape might, just might pick up a garment that was not ‘exactly’ what he ‘ should’ have been wearing according to a learned and woke professor/curator.

Rewriting the past is damn hard work…

 

[Hogpatrol]

Glad I got to see those shrunken heads in a couple Ripley's Believe It Or Not museums. Wonder if they'll be next on the offensive list.

 

[CoElkHunter]

Glad I got to see those shrunken heads in a couple Ripley's Believe It Or Not museums. Wonder if they'll be next on the offensive list.

Were those heads from late Politicians? Just asking because it seems we have a ready supply of shrunken heads currently haunting the halls of Congress.

 

[Hogpatrol]

Were those heads from late Politicians? Just asking because it seems we have a ready supply of shrunken heads currently haunting the halls of Congress.

These were many decades ago on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ when intelligent people with common sense inhabited Congress.

 

[thriller]

These were many decades ago on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ when intelligent people with common sense inhabited Congress.

Well a lot of the same politicians are still there they are just senile now and can’t remember where they are or what they are doing.

 

[PerH]

Its probably In same way they say that anazasi was a peaceful small band of people moving up from southern areas not disturbing their neighbors at all

 

[BRICKBURN]