Posted on 09/20/2020 6:55:47 AM PDT by Lazamataz
The museum says the diorama has disturbed some people because of the violence depicted, and they've learned the 1860s-era taxidermy was performed with real human bones.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pittsburgh museum decided a dramatic diorama that has been on display for more than a century should remain out of public view while it considers ethical issues about its accuracy and appropriateness.
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has covered up the popular “Lion Attacking a Dromedary” diorama, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Thursday.
“For some people of color, their traumatic experience with racialized violence leads them to see ("Lion Attacking a Dromedary”) primarily through that lens," a spokesperson told KDKA.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburgh.cbslocal.com ...
Perhaps a tasteful depiction of Jews being loaded onto cattle cars would satisfy those on the left.
Total communist insanity -
https://triblive.com/aande/museums/carnegie-museum-hiding-famous-lion-attacking-a-dromedary-diorama-from-view/
“In a 2015 marketing poll, it came in second behind the “Dippy” dinosaur statue outside the museum. Then in 2017, the diorama was refurbished and moved out of the hall of North African mammals to a more prominent spot at the entrance to the museum. The name was changed as well, from “Arab Courier Attacked by Lions” to “Lion Attacking a Dromedary.” The new name “better reflects the exhibit’s storyline. The change also seeks to dispel a long-held stereotype,” said an article in Carnegie Magazine at the time. “The rider misrepresents an Arab from North Africa, which is common in 19th-century art.”
That same year, the more visible display of the diorama helped to stir up controversy related to charges of historical inaccuracies and racism. The museum sponsored a public symposium to discuss the diorama and determined it presented a “stereotyped, colonialist misrepresentation of North Africa and the Middle East.”
> THE CANCEL CULTURE IS NO LESS THAN EQUIVILANT TO NAZI BOOK BURNING. <
Yes indeed. The only difference is that it took a crowd of Nazis to burn a library. It takes only one complaining “woke” person to cancel something today.
A large high school near me had an Indian in full headdress as its symbol. It was a noble depiction. Well, one person complained about it. Just one! And she wasn’t even a Native American.
The school’s symbol was immediately changed. Immediately! New school letterheads were ordered with the new symbol. New school shirts were ordered. The Indian mural on the gym wall was painted over. Etc.
All because of one silly complaint.
The Smithsonian’s MNH had sabre-toothed cat (”tiger”)-in-attack stance posed outside the exhibit hall.
Popular photo-op for visitors posing with it.
In the early 1980s, the cat was removed “because it might embarrass the cat/species” or the like.
Snowflakes MELT. It’s part of Nature. We can’t alter the world to keep snowflakes from MELTING.
STUFF Happens.
As a child that was my absolute favorite.
Which one was immoral: the lion for trying to eat the camel, or the camel for trying to starve the lion?
They should be ignored, but the Media is not only afraid of them, but see them as helpful in the media's desperate attempt to hold onto power.
And ANYBODY complaining about displaying “Piss Christ” (or its contemporaries like the dung-stained Virgin Mary painting) would themselves be protested and scorned! Yet here, the person (or groups) “potentially complaining” are praised as a thoughtful and deep thinkers!
Which one was immoral: the lion for trying to eat the camel, or the camel for trying to starve the lion?
Never mind...it was the man for enslaving the camel.
Obviously happened on a Wednesday.
I’ve been visiting the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh since I was a little boy (tadpole).
Loved the animal dioramas, the dinosaurs, the Egyptian and Eskimo exhibits, plus all the artworks next door.
And now I love the gem, crystal and mineral exhibits too!
To the cancel culture I say “go f*ck yourselves with a pinecone.”
To anyone within a day’s drive of Pittsburgh, I recommend heartily the Carnegie Museum in Oakland, near Pitt, in Pittsburgh.
I think I see what you did there ...
I’m sure the dromedary’s gun triggered some snowflakes as well.
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