{"id":16744,"date":"2017-09-22T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=16744"},"modified":"2017-09-22T18:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T17:00:56","slug":"british-museum-accused-of-racism-and-dumbing-down-after-curators-comment-on-exhibition-labelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=16744","title":{"rendered":"British Museum accused of racism and dumbing down after Curator\u2019s comment on exhibition labelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BBC_News_website_220917.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16745\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BBC_News_website_220917.png\" alt=\"BBC News website 220917\" width=\"250\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a>The British Museum has apologised after a tweet from one of its curators saying \u2018sometimes Asian names can be confusing\u2019 on exhibition labels\u00a0saw it accused of racism and dumbing down, reports the BBC.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BBC news writes:<\/p>\n<p>The British museum in a statement has \u2018apologized for any offence caused\u2019 following a row which escalated after Jane Portal, from the London institution&#8217;s Asia department, said \u2018sometimes Asian names can be confusing\u2019 on exhibition labels and continued: \u2018We have to be careful about using too many,\u2019 prompting a string of critical tweets.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added: \u2018Jane was answering a very specific question about how we make the information on object labels accessible to a wider range of people.\u2019 Answering a question as part of the museum&#8217;s #AskACurator initiative, Ms Portal said \u2018we aim to be understandable by 16 year olds\u2019 and the length of the wording on information labels could be limiting.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Dynasties &amp; gods have different names in various Asian languages,\u2019 she wrote. \u2018We want to focus on the stories.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-41254560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Museum has apologised after a tweet from one of its curators saying \u2018sometimes Asian names can be confusing\u2019 on exhibition labels\u00a0saw it accused of racism and dumbing down, reports the BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16746,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16744\/revisions\/16746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}