US museum acquires two emoji that symbolise inclusion

This combination of images released by The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum shows an emoji depicting a girl in a headscarf (left) and a collection of inter-skintone couples which have been added to the museum’s digital collection to celebrate inclusion. —Emojination/Cooper Hewitt via AP

NEW YORK: The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has acquired two emoji that have helped broaden diversity for users of the tiny pictures, becoming the third museum to add emoji to their digital collections.

The New York museum acquired the “person with headscarf” and “inter-skintone couple” emoji for its burgeoning collection of digital assets. The museum plans an exhibition on the significance of the two through interviews and images, but the pandemic has put an opening date in limbo, said Andrea Lipps, Cooper Hewitt’s associate curator of contemporary design.