Offensive language

Dear [name],

Thank you for contacting Wellcome Collection.

We know that our museum, library and archive collections include content that is racist, distressing and/or culturally sensitive. The historic terminology used to describe them is often discriminatory and offensive. Working across teams, we are actively challenging ourselves, without censoring the historical record, to develop better practices for documenting, displaying and explaining the complex histories and contexts both of our collections.

Or:

Our collections include content that is racist, distressing or culturally sensitive, and the historic terminology used to describe them is often discriminatory and offensive. Our catalogues are working databases which are constantly being updated, and we are actively challenging ourselves to develop better practices for documenting, displaying and explaining their complex histories and contexts.

It is offensive language such as that in the record you identified that we are working to update. I have amended the record using the title provided on the print itself, which you can see here: [insert link to updated record].

We are always pleased to receive further information about the items in our collections, and corrections to catalogue entries. These should be emailed to [email protected].

Yours sincerely,