Debate around exhibition on travelling people in Luxembourg

The exhibition 'Watch out Gypsies! History of a misunderstanding' at the museum of history in Luxembourg aims to denounce prejudices against this people. However it did not receive the approval of all of the Rom community, explains Luc Caregari. "Exactly a week ago, the press received a communiqué from the European Roma and Travellers Forum (ERTF). The latter does not mince its words. It accuses the museum of organising the exhibition without any participation from Rom organisations and their representatives and considers that the title of the exhibition is a provocation to the Roms who in 1971 at their first world congress after the Second World War demanded to be called Roms. .... It still remains to be seen what lesson is to be drawn from this conflict. Is it simply another misunderstanding? Or the bad will of the ERTF, annoyed at not being involved at the beginning of preparations for the exhibition? Or has the history museum made a gaffe? The answer is perhaps in the gap which separates the Gadjes from the travelling people."

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