What’s Wrong With This Diorama?

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This diorama at the American Museum of Natural History was amended with annotations that allow museumgoers to see the historical inaccuracies it perpetuates. It depicts an imagined 17th-century meeting between Dutch settlers and the Lenape, an Indigenous tribe inhabiting New Amsterdam, now New York City. Instead of replacing the diorama, the museum has posted explanations of what was wrong with the portrayals on the glass.

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