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Museopunks Episode 31: Are Museums “Safe Spaces for Unsafe Ideas?”

By Suse Anderson

Since the mid-1990s, it has been received wisdom that museums are, or should be, “safe spaces for unsafe ideas.” But is this true? Are museum safe spaces? And do they really deal in unsafe ideas? In this episode, Elaine Heumann Gurian, who …

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