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A prominent London museum is closing a long-running exhibition dedicated to the history of medicine because of its alleged “racist, sexist and capable theories and language”.
The Wellcome Collection is finishing its “Medicine Man” exhibit after 15 years in what the museum called “a significant turning point”, according to The Guardian.
The Wellcome Collection was founded when Sir Henry Wellcome, an American pharmaceutical entrepreneur who died in 1936, donated more than 1 million items to the museum, many of which related to the history of world medicine.
Some of the objects have proven controversial recently, such as a 1916 painting titled “A Medical Missionary Attending to a Sick African,” depicting a white missionary tending to a sick African while Jesus Christ stands on the missionary’s shoulder. .
The painting was eventually removed and stored for allegedly “perpetuating racial stereotypes and hierarchies.”
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Livingstone’s medicine chest from 1900-1910 from the Wellcome Collection goes on display on January 19, 2011 in London.
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“We cannot change our past. But we can work towards a future where we give voice to the narratives and lived experiences of those who have been silenced, erased and ignored,” the museum said in a Twitter thread last week.
“We tried to do this with some of the Medicine Man pieces by using interventions from artists. But the exhibit still perpetuates a version of medical history that is based on racist, sexist and disability theories and language.”
The thread went on to allege that the extensive collection of paintings, books and anatomical models made of wood, wax and ivory dating back to the 17th century tell the story of a man with “enormous wealth, power and privilege”.
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“The result was a collection that told a global story of health and medicine in which people with disabilities, blacks, indigenous peoples, and people of color were exoticized, marginalized, and exploited, or even lost entirely,” wrote the museum.
Some on Twitter criticized the museum for closing the permanent exhibit that was free to the public.
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“An act of cultural vandalism to shut down with no idea of what will take its place,” one user tweeted.
“Is there no one who can get rid of these cultural vandals or does the rot reach the top? Is this a prelude to the closure of entire museums because their collections are not awakened enough?” another user wrote.
Born in 1853 in a log cabin on the Wisconsin frontier, Sir Henry Wellcome became a pharmaceutical entrepreneur with a passion for collecting medical devices.
(Library of Congress)
A new exhibit detailing health-related stories from historically underserved communities will be featured in the coming years, according to the museum’s website.
In 2019, the museum hired a new director, Melanie Keen, who expressed a desire to determine who were the rightful owners of the museum’s objects and how Wellcome came to obtain them, The Guardian reported.
Skulls and skull-shaped vessels are on display in the “Death: A Self-Portrait” exhibition at the Wellcome Collection on November 14, 2012 in London.
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“It feels like an impossible place to care about this material that we have without questioning what it is, what narratives there are to understand in a deeper way, and how the material got into our collection,” Keen said.
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The museum did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
