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January 27, 2024
The American Museum of Natural History in New York City will close two of its exhibition halls that showcase “severely outdated” representations of Native Americans, the museum’s president, Sean Decatur, wrote today in an internal email to staff. The announcement of the exhibit closures on Saturday, Jan. 27 was in direct response to updates in a federal repatriation law that became effective earlier this month. The law, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriatio...
January 27, 2024
NEW YORK — New York’s venerable American Museum of Natural History and leading institutions across the country are shutting down major exhibits of Native American artifacts in response to new federal regulations limiting the display of cultural items. Under the guidelines announced recently by the Biden administration, museums must obtain permission from Native American tribes before ...
January 27, 2024
New York’s American Museum of Natural History is closing two halls featuring Native American objects starting Saturday, acknowledging the exhibits are “severely outdated” and contain culturally sensitive items. The mammoth complex across from Central Park on Manhattan’s Upper West Side is the latest U.S. institution to cover up or remove Native American exhibits to comply with recently revamped federal regulations dealing with the display of Indigenous human remains ...
January 27, 2024
New York City’s American Museum of Natural History is closing two halls featuring Native American objects
January 27, 2024
The American Museum of Natural History has closed certain Native American displays in accordance with new federal regulations.
January 27, 2024
Move is in response to recently updated federal law requiring consent from Indigenous peoples to display their objects
January 27, 2024
Museums move complies with NAGPRA Act with plans to return them to their original tribes
January 27, 2024
New York's American Museum of Natural History is closing two halls featuring Native American objects starting Saturday, acknowledging the exhibits are