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Evening Standard
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William Mata

Wellcome Collection shuts ‘racist’ Medicine Man exhibition after 15 years

The Wellcome Collection has closed its Medicine Man display after 15 years over concerns exhibits contained "racist, sexist and ableist theories and language".

The Euston Road museum curated the exhibition from some of the million-plus objects gathered by founder Henry Wellcome, before his death in 1936, to give an insight into global health and medicine.

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