New Bedford Whaling Museum confronts racist history of an artifact

The exhibit 'Complicated Legacies: Museum History, White Supremacy, and Sculpture,' opens at the New Bedford Whaling Museum later this month.

The show is centered around a bust created by a famous American sculptor John Gutzon Borglum, who had ties to the Ku Klux Klan. In 2020, the museum removed the sculpture because of the artist's history. Now, that piece will go back on display, and museum leaders say, will be re-contextualized.

New Bedford Whaling Museum chief curator joins us to discuss the exhibit, the work's legacy and the conversations the museum hopes to spark.