Right? The British museum has no compunction...
Empire habits die hard
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🏛️⚖️ From museum ethics to sustainability, global challenges need collective voices. Join ICOM UK. #icomuk #museum #susainibility #museumethics #ethics

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Podcast Season 4, Episode 5: Naturalizing Inequalities: The Colonial Museum with Dan Hicks In today’s episode of the Peopling the Past podcast, we are joined by Dr. Dan Hicks, professor of contemporary archaeology at the University of Oxford and the curator of World Archaeology at …

Dr. Dan Hicks, Oxford archaeologist and Pitt Rivers curator, challenges colonial myths in museums. His latest book, Every Monument Will Fall, probes how monuments shape memory (and what it means to rewrite those stories). #MuseumEthics #DecolonizeMuseums #DanHicks peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/27/p...

🗣️ Our third panel explores “Criminal Custodians? Legal and Ethical Fault Lines in Museum Work”. Our guest speaker Camilla Brunazzo Chiavegato will present to us: “Curators’ Big Little Crimes. Criminological, Ethical, and Legal Perspectives on Museum Curators’ Involvement in Art Crime” #MuseumEthics

Heard of a ‘Hireling Artist’?

Byron coined the term in 1811 — for those who defend imperial theft with big words, small morals & flattery.
His poem The Curse of Minerva, about Elgin & the Parthenon marbles, has proved eerily prophetic.
#HirelingArtist #ParthenonMarbles #MuseumEthics #ByronWasRight

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I’ve started tracking political actions affecting museums in 2025 here. Please add your own links so we can build a comprehensive record of the actions happening to the field.
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Trump property purge to include national park visitor centers, museums The Trump administration is trying to cancel leases for 34 National Park Service buildings, which an advocate says will endanger artifacts.

Oh. “If the GSA moves forward with the proposal, eight visitor centers would close without alternative locations in place... And several climate-controlled museums would shutter without a plan for sending their rare artifacts to equivalent facilities.”
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Looking forward to running this #museumethics & #objecthistories workshop with Harriet Wheelock, Alice Cusan and Dr. Carly Collier for @irishmuseums.bsky.social! Open to IMA members only.
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#hunterianmuseum #ucl #uclpathologymuseum #royalfreehospital #museumstudies #museology #museumethics #pathologymuseum #anatomymuseum #londonmuseums #londonhistory

This is going to be hugely useful for my current work on #MuseumEthics.

A big thanks to our editors, anonymous reviewers, and Dr. Annie Bares for their support and feedback. #MuseumFunding #MuseumPractice #MuseumEthics #GLAMs 📜

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“The topic of ethics came up as well, how can cultural workers make sure they are acting ethically in their work with communities. What support do workers need in this area and what is the emotional toll of ethical work?”

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