The Wellcome Collection's display, called Medicine Man, includes objects relating to sex, birth and death, and anatomical models in wood, ivory and wax dating back to the 17th century.
A London museum says it is closing one of its key exhibitions for good after admitting the display"perpetuates a version of medical history based on racist, sexist and ableist theories and language".
The Wellcome Collection's Medicine Man gallery includes objects relating to sex, birth and death, and anatomical models in wood, ivory and wax dating back to the 17th century.The free display is part of a huge array of more than a million books, paintings and objects amassed by the museum's founder Sir Henry Wellcome who started collecting in the 19th century.
The Wellcome Collection said on Twitter:"The very fact that they've ended up in one place - the story we told was that of a man with enormous wealth, power and privilege. "And the stories we neglected to tell were those that we have historically marginalised or excluded." The global story the display told was one of"health and medicine in which disabled people, black people, indigenous peoples and people of colour were exoticised, marginalised and exploited - or even missed out altogether", the museum said.
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