Government policy in the U.K. is stoking a 'culture war.' Will it undermine the country's world-leading museums?
, historian David Olusoga called out the soft targeting of historians in this context: “Historians should repeatedly point out that the “rewriting of history” is not some act of professional misconduct but literally the job of professional historians,” he wrote.
It was in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, that the then-culture secretary Oliver Dowden sent a letter to 26 institutions stating that publicly-funded museums “should not be taking actions motivated by activism or politics.” The Museums Association released a statement in response, expressing its concern at the perceived interference in museum work.
“We are being told that what we need to do in order to receive money is to diversify at every level,” Amal Khalaf, civic curator at the Serpentine and director of programs at Cubitt Artists confirmed to Artnet News. “It goes beyond equality policy stuff to actually change governance models, [and] create more caring ways of working internally… The kind of bricks and mortar day-to-day stuff related to staying open demands that you have diversity on a policy level as well.
Khalaf described museums as a space to “listen differently, and to just be allowed to hear things differently.” She added: “Whether you’re just walking in the Turbine Hall, and you suddenly feel like you’re allowed to just be a bit freer with your day, or with your hour that you’re there… I think the experience everybody has when they go into an art space is this difference.”
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