{"id":1138802,"date":"2021-12-21T17:34:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T22:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1138802"},"modified":"2021-12-21T17:34:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T22:34:43","slug":"fact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-museum-exhibit-in-italy-featuring-bags-of-immigrants-who-died-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-museum-exhibit-in-italy-featuring-bags-of-immigrants-who-died-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Photo Show A Museum Exhibit In Italy Featuring Bags Of Immigrants Who Died At Sea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-museum-exhibit-in-italy-featuring-bags-of-immigrants-who-died-at-sea%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1138802&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Nwa.Maduh\/posts\/3215415585357118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows an exhibit at a museum on Italy\u2019s Lampedusa island featuring bags owned by immigrants who perished at sea.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The photo actually shows possessions of migrants who tried to cross the U.S.-Mexico border that were displayed in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iom.int\/about-iom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Organization of Migration\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/missingmigrants.iom.int\/region\/mediterranean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Missing Migrants Project<\/a> reports that over 17,000 migrants have died or disappeared in the central Mediterranean Sea since 2014. From January to the end of November, some 64,400 illegal border crossings into the European Union (E.U.) via the Central Mediterranean route were detected by authorities, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/frontex.europa.eu\/media-centre\/news\/news-release\/migratory-situation-november-the-highest-number-of-detections-in-november-since-2015-Vn2CSr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/frontex.europa.eu\/about-frontex\/who-we-are\/foreword\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frontex<\/a>, the E.U. border and coast guard agency.<\/p>\n<p>In the photo visible in the Facebook post, backpacks and pieces of luggage can be seen covering the wall of a room while people stand nearby. The caption <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Nwa.Maduh\/posts\/3215415585357118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alleges<\/a> they are the \u201cbags of immigrants who died at sea, which were collected and placed in an Italian museum on the island of Lampedusa, and written on it, \u2018Every bag has a story.&#8217;\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2018\/04\/27\/fact-check-french-statue-of-liberty-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did The French Intend For The Statue Of Liberty To Symbolize Immigration?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, the photo actually shows an exhibition that, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/state-of-exception\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities website<\/a>, includes \u201chundreds of backpacks left behind by migrants crossing the Arizona desert as well as numerous pieces of clothing and ephemera.\u201d Other things included in the exhibition were \u201cvideo images\u201d taken along the U.S.-Mexico border and clips of audio interviews with migrants, the University of Michigan website explains.<\/p>\n<p>The installation, titled \u201cState of Exception,\u201d was <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/state-of-exception\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">created by<\/a> anthropologist Jason De Le\u00f3n and artists Richard Barnes and Amanda Krugliak. Media outlets such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/entertainment\/arts\/2015\/09\/25\/artprize-michigan-detroit-artists-state-of-exception\/72799994\/https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/entertainment\/arts\/2015\/09\/25\/artprize-michigan-detroit-artists-state-of-exception\/72799994\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detroit Free Press<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/03\/arts\/design\/state-of-exception-estado-de-excepcion-parsons-mexican-immigration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a> also reported that the bags in \u201cState of Exception\u201d came from migrants trying to cross the U.S.\u2019s southern border with Mexico. It was displayed in Michigan in 2015 and in New York in 2017, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/entertainment\/arts\/2015\/09\/25\/artprize-michigan-detroit-artists-state-of-exception\/72799994\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wemu.org\/post\/creativeimpact-exploring-human-condition-through-arts-and-humanities#stream\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the photo doesn\u2019t show an installation at a museum in Lampedusa, a performance and exhibition venue called PortoM has displayed various items belonging to migrants that were found&nbsp;near Lampedusa, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/portommaremediterraneomigrazionimilitarizzazione.wordpress.com\/storia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">venue\u2019s website<\/a>.&nbsp;PortoM has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IfiglidiAbele\/photos\/2954921214743664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IfiglidiAbele\/photos\/2954921054743680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photos<\/a> showing some of the items on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows an exhibit at a museum on Italy\u2019s Lampedusa island featuring bags owned by immigrants who perished at sea.Verdict: False The photo actually shows &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}