the national gallery of Denmark changing the captions to the pictures in his collection in the politically correct: the word "Negro" in the names and descriptions of the works are replaced by "African". As told the Deputy Director of the Museum Peter Noergaard Larsen (Peter Noergaard Larsen), with changes to the names of 14 works by Danish artists, Dating back from 1609 to 1959.

the Copenhagen Museum decided to get rid of the reminders of colonial terminology in your collection for example the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, who first dared to take such a step.

a Change of name plates has drawn criticism from national-консервативной the Danish people's party. The Museum was accused of wanting to rewrite history. "Suddenly they decided to delete these terms from your own story, wanting to whitewash her, which is a manifestation of a totalitarian ideology", — said press-секретарь party on culture Arentsen Alex (Alex Ahrendtsen).

Denmark was never a colonial power powerful, but still had small colonies in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, as well as a major European country engaged in the slave trade.

a Representative of another of the Central Museum — the National Museum of Denmark — Mordhorst Camilla (Camilla Mordhorst) said that they, by contrast, retain these words in the titles of paintings, because they describe the inequality between people as part of history."

the Struggle for racial equality recently resulted in the lawsuit filed by one of the visitors of the Metropolitan Museum in new-Йорке. A black resident of Manhattan has filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Museum of art from-за four works the Museum's collection, in which Christ is depicted with white skin, blond hair. Justin Renel Joseph (Justin Renel Joseph) called these works with the "Aryan" Christ "racist". He was asked to remove the work from the exhibition because they are the "exceptional case of discrimination".

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: yahoo.com, artinvestment.ru