Extinction Voices, Extinction Silences: Reflecting on a Decolonial Role for Natural History Exhibits in Promoting Thinking about Global Ecological Crisis, Using a Case Study from Bristol Museums

Between August-December 2019, Bristol Museum Art Gallery covered 32 animals in its World Wildlife Gallery with transparent black veils, to highlight the global ecological crisis. Each veiled animal represented a species extinct or at high to extreme risk of extinction. The intervention, called Exti...

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Main Authors: Isla Gladstone, Persephone Pearl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Leicester 2022-06-01
Series:Museum & Society
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Online Access:https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/3806