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U.K.’s Natural History Museum Reviewing Charles Darwin Exhibits For ‘Offensive’ Content, ‘Colonialism’

Emily Zanotti
U.K.’s Natural History Museum Reviewing Charles Darwin Exhibits For ‘Offensive’ Content, ‘Colonialism’
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Charles Darwin could be next on the list of historical figures facing cancellation.

Museum bosses at the U.K.’s Natural History Museum are reportedly “reviewing” exhibits on the legendary biologist over concerns that Darwin’s work is “offensive” and that his voyage to the Galapagos Islands — a trip that is still producing insights into how the natural world develops and changes — was “colonialist” in nature, rendering Darwin himself controversial.

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