Rijksmuseum Removing Racially Charged Terms From Artworks’ Titles And Descriptions

“Words that Europeans once routinely used to describe other cultures or peoples, like ‘negro,’ ‘Indian’ or ‘dwarf’ will be replaced with less racially charged terminology.” Says the Amsterdam museum’s director of history, “We Dutch are called kaas kops, or cheeseheads, sometimes, and we wouldn’t like it if we went to a museum in another country and saw descriptions of images of us as kaas kop woman with kaas kop child’.”