The Royal Ontario Museum has reversed its decision to change a travelling art exhibit about Palestinian-Muslim funerary practices after protests that included an 18-hour sit-in by the women who created it.
The Toronto museum says it wanted to change the exhibit, Death: Life’s Greatest Mystery, because of “heightened sensitivities” over the Israel-Hamas war.
Two days before it was supposed to open, ROM officials told the four Palestinian American women behind the exhibit about certain changes they wanted to make, according to artists Sameerah Hosam Ahmad and Malak Kanan.
