Thinking about a museum here in Dublin that tweets a lot about its collections and the provenance of its objects but without really getting into the colonialism and imperialism that underpins the acquisition of these objects. 1/
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And I am thoroughly unsettled about how this museum presents their collection, especially considering how often the extinction of animals is tied white settlers and colonialists exploiting the natural resources of these places. 5/
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Anyone who lives in Ireland will probably know what museum I am talking about and they may well know more than me about how they deal with this legacy in the physical space but ignoring this on Twitter is I think inappropriate. 6/
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And I think that anyone who works with heritage in some way has a responsibility to acknowledge the trauma that is attached to their collections. 7/7
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Addendum: my point here is that natural history is not a neutral discipline and it is just as rooted in racism, imperialism, and colonialism as other disciplines.
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