Museum of Truth and Lies
Yasmin Khan
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Imperial Loot Gallery
Subhadra Das, Writer of Uncivilised: Ten Lies that Made the West (2024), considers how museums are dealing with the challenge to honestly interpret object provenance linked to empire. She questions if museums lie by omission. #Empire #Eugenics #Genocide #Loot #Racism #NaturalHistory #Restitution #Decolonisation #Universities EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS Critiquing eugenics Nullius In Verba (take no one’s word for it) Do museums lie? Subhadra’s hopes and fears Decolonising museums Advice for the next generation of curators Hosted by @YasminCurates in conversation with @Sub_das (Insta)/ @littlegaudy (X). Do you believe everything you see in museums? Share your thoughts and museum photos via #MuseumTruthLies. Follow https://linktr.ee/museumtruthlies CREDITS: Host, scriptwriter and editor, Yasmin Khan; Executive Producer, Marie Horner; Composer, Helen A. Wilson; Sound Design, Lucy Dearlove (supported by Lucia Scazzoccio). SPONSORS: Art South Asia Project and ZVM Rangoonwala Foundation Recommended resources Muse-Zine: a playbook for truth-telling in museums (2024), Edited by Yasmin Khan Uncivilised: Ten Lies that Made the West (2024) by Subhadra Das, Hodder & Stoughton ‘Nature Read in Black and White: Decolonial Approaches to Natural History Collections’ (2018) by Miranda Lowe and Subhadra Das, NatSCA Journal https://natsca.org/sites/default/files/publications/JoNSC-Vol6-DasandLowe2018.pdf
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