Saturday, May 15, 2004

Everything Old, is New Again, But Shouldn’t Be Seen, By the Children

“Children visiting the Middle Ages exhibit opening next week at the Public Museum of Grand Rapids will be able to dress up in medieval garb, train like a knight in shining armor and feast on authentic food of the era.

What they won’t be able to do is see a demonstration of a torture rack pulling a captive Stretch Armstrong doll to its limit or murals depicting other forms of torture.

With photos of prisoner abuse in Iraq at the hands of American soldiers appearing on the nightly news, museum officials this week decided to pull the rack and mural from the exhibit “Gratia Dei: A Journey Through the Middle Ages.” They also will retool a summer program designed to show the life of a medieval prisoner.”

We can’t have children understanding that adults have acted barbarically throughout history, can we, now.

“All of a sudden, medieval torture isn’t such old news.”

And the repurcussions roll on.

Posted by John Venlet on 05/15 at 09:08 AM
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