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    About the Peabody Museum

    Our Mission

    The Peabody Museum at Harvard University connects people with the cultural heritage in the Museum’s care. We commit to amplifying global Indigenous, descendant, and diaspora community voices and knowledge to address colonial legacies. We facilitate education and scholarship to foster a more inclusive and collaborative future.

    Our Vision

    The Peabody aims to be an ethical steward of the collections in our care and to act collaboratively and with transparency. We strive to provide access to and care of collections in a manner founded on...

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    Ethical Stewardship

    The Peabody Museum must critically engage with its challenging legacy of Eurocentrism and recognize collections as the cultural heritage of the communities from which they originate.

    Euroamerican anthropology museums are a product of imperialism and colonial expansion that continue to perpetuate inequities today. As such, they reflect Eurocentric perspectives and biases on the acquisition, ownership, use and understanding of the cultural belongings, human remains and documents that are redefined as collections in museum contexts. 

    The  Peabody Museum has...

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