2020, The British Museum removes a terracotta bust of its slave-owner founder, Hans Sloane, to a secure cabinet

has description | a une description: Explaining the British Museum's actions, the director, Hartwig Fischer, said: "We have pushed him off the pedestal. We must not hide anything. Healing is knowledge...Dedication to truthfulness when it comes to history is absolutely crucial, with the aim to rewrite our shared, complicated and, at times, very painful history."

“The case dedicated to Hans Sloane and his relationship to slavery is a very important step in this. We have pushed him off the pedestal where nobody looked at him, and placed him in the limelight.

“The British Museum has done a lot of work – accelerated and enlarged its work on its own history, the history of empire, the history of colonialism, and also of slavery. These are subjects which need to be addressed, and to be addressed properly. We need to understand our own history.”
has type | est de type: relocation
carried out by | réalisée par: The British Museum
took place on or within | a eu lieu le ou dans l'intervalle de temps: August 2020

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