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Dutch museum drops 'offensive' titles
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is dropping words like 'negro', 'dwarf' and 'eskimo', because of fears they could cause offence. The gallery is home to more than a million works, including masterpieces by Vermeer and Rembrandt. We asked Martine Gosselink, the head of history at the Rijksmuseum, to give us an example of a painting that's had a name change
(The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Credit: Getty Images)
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