American Museum of Natural History

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/22/2020
  

  Theodore Roosevelt Statue, Flanked by African and Native American Men, to be Removed in New York

  President Donald Trump called the decision "ridiculous" in an early-morning tweet.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/22/2020
  

  Roosevelt Statue to Be Removed From Museum of Natural History

  The Museum emphasized that the statue was being moved because of how it depicted Roosevelt in a hierarchical relationship to the figures of Native American and African men.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/20/19
  

  What’s Wrong With This Diorama? You Can Read All About It

  Dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History have been amended in a way that allows museumgoers to see the historical inaccuracies exhibits often perpetuate.

• SOURCE: NYT
  8-20-13
  

  Apaches’ dispute with American Museum of Natural History

  Four years ago, the American Museum of Natural History agreed to return to the Apaches 77 objects from its collection, including headwear, feathers, bows and arrows, medicine rings and satchels containing crystals and charms.But none of the items have gone back because of an unusual, if persistent, disagreement with representatives of the Apaches over whether the museum will officially designate the items as sacred relics that should never have been taken.At first glance, the dispute would seem to hinge on semantics: the museum is prepared to refer to the objects, many more than a century old, as “cultural items,” while the Apaches insist that they be designated as “sacred” and “items of cultural patrimony,” legal classifications set out under federal law. The Apaches say this is hardly a case of being fussy. They say the items are imbued with their religion’s holy beings, that tribal elders attribute problems like alcoholism and unemployment on reservations to their unsettled spirits, and that the museum’s position is insulting to them and their deities....