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This vocabulary, covering 700 words across five languages, supports professionals to review descriptions of cultural heritage collections with regards to potential bias.
Discover and use resources developed by the DE-BIAS project which support cultural heritage professionals to engage and work with communities to enrich and contextualise cultural heritage collections.
Discover resources and capacity building materials developed by the project to support cultural heritage professionals and users to understand, analyse and address bias in their collections.
In the spring of 2024, the inhabitants of five towns in Katanga, in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo, were invited to share their knowledge on a collection of historical photographs taken in the area up to 100 years ago. Learn how this work helped to reframe contentious cultural heritage, as part of the DE-BIAS project.
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Created: 4 December 2024
Katja Holtz
Zoe Williams
In October 2024, to coincide with Black History Month, the Vagina Museum renamed their galleries after Anarcha, Betsey and Lucy, three enslaved women experimented on by the so-called 'Father of Modern Gynaecology'. The Museum shares more about the process of renaming the galleries, and how it contributes to a wider call for justice and historical reckoning.
