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Illinois State Museum Joins Global Conversation on the Return of Cultural Heritage
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois State Museum (ISM) will join museums, universities, and museum professionals across five continents virtually April through June to present a four-part conversation series on repatriation and the return of cultural heritage.
Due to colonization practices, museums hold in their collections ancestors, belongings, and treasures belonging to Indigenous peoples. As museums atone with past practices and engage Indigenous communities, they are beginning to return some of their holdings to the cultures where they belong. However, a viable, international approach to repatriation has yet to be found.
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On Tuesday, April 6th at 6:00 p.m. central time, the LaSalle Public Library virtually will host Erika Holst, Curator of History at the Illinois State Museum, when she presents, “Behind the Beautiful Dress: Making Cloth and Clothing in the 19th Century.”
It is hard to overstate the role of textiles in early American life. For families, the making of textiles and clothing required countless hours of labor. On the other hand, the purchase of textiles could consume a large portion of the household budget. For the nation, textiles drove the American pre-Civil War economy. They provided a money-making opportunity for a few and exploited the labor of countless others.
Did you know that northeastern Illinois used to be a tropical swamp? Large animals often get a lot of attention, but fossilized plants can tell us lots about what the earth was like in the past. Join Illinois State Museum Curator of Geology Dr. Melissa Pardi for an exploration of the paleobotany collections from the Age of Coal, and learn what these specimens can tell us. This program is part of Big Read: Sangamon County sponsored by LLCC Academy of Lifelong Learning. NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowments for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
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