24oranges.nl
Rijksmuseum to remove slurs from art descriptions
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has kicked off a project to remove hurtful ethnic designations in the descriptions of hundreds of thousands of objects and replace them with neutral terms. Why now? Because with the digitisation of the collection, more and more people aren't too fond of the Rijksmuseum's "traditional Eurocentric view" of the world, as [...]