The American Museum of Natural History holds the remains of 12,000 people from around the world. Most of them are Indigenous. I've spent a year learning the horrifying stories of how these bones got to New York - including talking to a man who found his grandfather in the museum.
A New York Museum's House of Bones
The American Museum of Natural History holds 12,000 bodies — but they don’t want you to know whose.
hyperallergic.com
October 16, 2023 at 4:14 PM
After years of denial and contempt for community activists who denounced the lies.
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
🤬“Penn says it has found more human remains from the MOVE bombing at its museum: The remains matched records for Delisha Africa, who was 12 when she was killed with 10 other members of the Black liberation and activist group MOVE, the museum said.”🤬
Penn says it has found more human remains from the MOVE bombing at its museum
The remains matched records for Delisha Africa, who was 12 when she was killed with 10 other members of the Black liberation and activist group MOVE, the museum said.
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November 15, 2024 at 12:43 PM
After years of denial and contempt for community activists who denounced the lies.
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
‘The British Museum has removed the word “Palestine” from some of its display cases, apparently because “audience testing has shown that the historic use of the term Palestine ... is in some circumstances no longer meaningful’.”’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on the blog.
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@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on the blog.
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Selma Dabbagh | Countercurrents
When the Taliban blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas in March 2001, the destruction was writ large in newspaper headlines and...
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March 1, 2026 at 12:35 AM
“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” 🔥
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Nan Goldin 🔥https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdp0McNhUzo
Nan Goldin at Nationalgalerie Berlin, Nov 22, 2024
YouTube video by beriooberi
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November 23, 2024 at 6:20 PM
people of the Global South should automatically get free admission in this imperial heist center and all the other imperial heist centers
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
Planning to stop by the Louvre next year? That'll be €32 (~$37) if you live outside of the European Union.
Louvre Museum to Hike Entry Fee Amid Heist Fallout
Come January, visitors outside the European Union can expect to pay $37 per ticket, an increase the institution says will help finance security updates.
hyperallergic.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
people of the Global South should automatically get free admission in this imperial heist center and all the other imperial heist centers
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
August 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
February 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Hegemonic museums are ruling class apparatuses that control art.
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#FreePalestine
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#FreePalestine
“I think a lot of museums want the art but not the artist. … They want the accolades of working with living artists, but not the reality of contending with our voices.”
Brooklyn Museum refuses to allow exhibiting artists to hang keffiyehs next to their artworks
hyperallergic.com/984677/artis...
Brooklyn Museum refuses to allow exhibiting artists to hang keffiyehs next to their artworks
hyperallergic.com/984677/artis...
Artists Wanted to Make a Pro-Palestine Statement. The Brooklyn Museum Said No.
A group of artists asked the museum to alter their artwork displays with keffiyehs after the institution failed to take a “clear public moral stance” on Gaza.
hyperallergic.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Hegemonic museums are ruling class apparatuses that control art.
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#FreePalestine
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#FreePalestine
Bravo, Japanese American National Museum (JANM), Chinese American Museum (CAM), LA Plaza de Cultura Y Artes (LA Plaza), and Grand Performances!
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
Latinx communities across the USA have been targeted by ICE. This summer, four LA historical and cultural institutions spoke out in solidarity, amongst silence in the museum sector.
Mary Rizzo on the role of museums in not only historical storytelling, but taking a stand:
Mary Rizzo on the role of museums in not only historical storytelling, but taking a stand:
No Going Back
Mary Rizzo examines how four LA historical and cultural institutions mobilize history and practice solidarity in the fight against immigration raids and deportations.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Bravo, Japanese American National Museum (JANM), Chinese American Museum (CAM), LA Plaza de Cultura Y Artes (LA Plaza), and Grand Performances!
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
May 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Trump is reportedly targeting the slavery section of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture for possible removal. “Black people are not going to stand for this,” says Nikole Hannah Jones, the author of the 1619 Project.
Trump Targets a Slavery Removal from the National Museum of African-American History and Culture
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The museum's slavery facts and substantiating artifacts of the 250 years of the enslavement of Africans in America, curated by historians, are the bull’s-eye for the Trump adm...
blackpressusa.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
When a contemporary art institution cancels contemporary art production it provides striking evidence of its fundamental misalignment of stated institutional purpose and actually institutional practice.
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
Weeks after cancelling a performance on Palestinian mourning organized by the Independent Study Program’s current Curatorial cohort, the Whitney Museum of American Art has suspended the program for the 2025–26 year, per a museum statement to Hyperallergic today, June 2.
Whitney Museum Suspends Independent Study Program
The museum is pausing the 2025–26 iteration of the program just weeks after it canceled a performance about Palestinian mourning, sparking outrage and censorship accusations.
hyperallergic.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
When a contemporary art institution cancels contemporary art production it provides striking evidence of its fundamental misalignment of stated institutional purpose and actually institutional practice.
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
June 18, 2024 at 9:26 PM
“Loan” is saying a lot V&A #MuseumsAreNotNeutral
"The UK is sending some of Ghana's 'crown jewels' back...150 years after looting them from the court of the Asante king. A gold peace pipe is among 32 items returning under long-term loan deals....The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) is lending 17 pieces and 15 are from the British Museum."
Asante Gold: UK to loan back Ghana's looted 'crown jewels'
Treasures taken 150 years ago will go back, the BBC can reveal, in a possible model for other disputes.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 24, 2024 at 10:37 PM
“Loan” is saying a lot V&A #MuseumsAreNotNeutral
January 5, 2026 at 4:47 PM
March 13, 2026 at 3:40 AM
when you look at the powers trump is claiming and boil it down, he really does seem to see himself as the literal embodiment of the executive branch, if not the entire nation, and thus his authority extends to everything www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Trump fires director of the National Portrait Gallery
It was unclear if Trump has the authority to fire Smithsonian leaders. The dismissal marks the president’s first action against the institution.
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May 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"'The cancellations felt targeted, [the center’s executive director, Kathe Hambrick] said. 'We are a Black history preservation organization with a large LGBTQ collection,' she said. 'Don’t you think we would be a target?'"
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the Center’s website: www.amistadresearchcenter.org
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the Center’s website: www.amistadresearchcenter.org
The Past Empowers The Future | Amistad Research Center
Welcome to the Amistad Research Center, the world's largest independent archive dedicated to preserving Black history.
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July 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"'The cancellations felt targeted, [the center’s executive director, Kathe Hambrick] said. 'We are a Black history preservation organization with a large LGBTQ collection,' she said. 'Don’t you think we would be a target?'"
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
the Center’s website: www.amistadresearchcenter.org
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the Center’s website: www.amistadresearchcenter.org
January 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Professor Karen Leader is a true leader in her field.
It's appalling that she has been targeted.
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#AcademiaIsNotNeutral
It's appalling that she has been targeted.
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#AcademiaIsNotNeutral
Karen Leader, a tenured associate professor of Art History at Florida Atlantic University, was placed on administrative leave over her social media posts criticizing Charlie Kirk’s political viewpoints.
Art History Professor Placed on Leave Over Charlie Kirk Posts
Karen Leader, an associate professor at Florida Atlantic University, had posted about the right-wing figure’s record of hateful speech.
hyperallergic.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Professor Karen Leader is a true leader in her field.
It's appalling that she has been targeted.
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#AcademiaIsNotNeutral
It's appalling that she has been targeted.
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
#AcademiaIsNotNeutral
