3h ago
inShoutout to the curator who let me handle the disputed artifact from the colonial era
Tbh, the whole idea of "easing my complicity" seems like you're making a bigger deal out of this than it needs to be. Museums exist to protect and share artifacts, not to overshadow living cultures. Honestly, community visits are great, but acting like studying artifacts in museums is some kind of sin is a stretch. Ngl, we can appreciate both museum preservation and living traditions without all the guilt. Prioritizing one doesn't automatically mean disrespecting the other, and framing it as complicity just complicates things unnecessarily. At the end of the day, these artifacts are safe in museums, and communities can engage with them without the heavy moral baggage.