In the interest of promoting diversity and equity, the Walters Art Museum has taken steps to confront its past and acknowledge its founders’ history as supporters of the Confederacy and beneficiaries of racist labor practices before and after the Civil War.
Directors disclosed today that the museum has prepared a “newly written history” of the institution to address the business practices and personal opinions of father-and-son founders William and Henry Walters and how their views shaped the museum that bears their name but is now owned by the city of Baltimore.
The museum also announced new strategic planning goals intended to “embed diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion (DEAI) in the organization.”
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