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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

Roald Dahl museum acknowledges author’s antisemitism

front view of the Roald Dahl museum and Story Centre, showing wall painted with image of a character and the words 'flushbunkingly gloriumptious'
The Roald Dahl museum and Story Centre, High Street, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. Photograph: Greg Balfour Evans/Alamy

The Roald Dahl museum has acknowledged the author’s antisemitism in a statement published on its website and to be displayed on a panel at its entrance.

Dahl’s racism was “undeniable and indelible”, the museum in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, said. Its statement comes more than two and a half years after Dahl’s family apologised for his antisemitism.

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