Museum closes 'racist, sexist and ableist' display
A museum in London is closing one of its main exhibitions following concerns over "racist, sexist and ableist theories and language".Founder Henry Wellcome, who died in 1936, collected more than a million objects to give an insight into global health and medicine.Controversial objects include a 1916 painting titled "A Medical Missionary Attending to a Sick African" which depicts an African person kneeling in front of a white missionary."We can't change our past.
It added that exhibiting the collection of paintings, books and anatomical models told a colonial story of a man with "enormous wealth, power and privilege".
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