Museum visitors took Klan selfies

COMPLAINTS about people posing for selfies with a Ku Klux Klan outfit on a mannequin has led a slavery museum to rethink its display.

- Tony Whitfield

The behaviour is one of the reasons curators at Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum have now moved the notorious uniform of white supremacists to a less prominent position, inside an open box.

Other visitors had said the race hate outfit was “scary and should be removed”, while another felt that displaying it was “insulting”.

Since the museum opened in 2007, the white robe with a pointed hood on a life-sized mannequin had loomed over visitors.

But it proved controversial, and now, as the attraction prepares for a major redevelopment next year, it is asking the public whether it should display objects linked to racism at all.