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19 de ene. de 2024 · Amid growing controversy, museums are grappling with collections from the colonial era – and one issue in particular. What should they do with human remains?
A number of Museum galleries and exhibitions include human remains in their displays, alongside explanatory and contextual information. The Museum gives careful thought to the reasons for and the circumstances of the display of human remains.
The guidance is divided into three parts: Part 1 gives a legal and ethical framework for the treatment of human remains; Part 2 deals with the curation, care and use of remains; Part 3 provides a framework for handling claims for the return of remains.
28 de mar. de 2017 · Human remains are an important teaching tool for anthropology and archaeology and are vital to the study of medical sciences. Use of human remains in exhibitions can also greatly stimulate a learning experience, allowing a much stronger connection to the culture that is being represented.
2 de ene. de 2020 · There is a long tradition of displaying bodies and body parts in museums, especially in Europe and Britain. After the Enlightenment (1685–1815), dead bodies could be presented as part of scientific, ethnographic, archaeological, or medical exhibitions (Brooks and Rumsey 2006; Adams 2009; Swain 2016 ).
7 de oct. de 2020 · The anatomical museums of many medical universities preserve in their rooms human remains collected over the centuries (human skeletons, single organs or tissues and sometimes entire bodies of men and women or even fetuses at different stages of gestation).
human remains should be displayed in museums continues to be debated in academia, but opinion polls show that the British public is highly supportive of the display of human remains. The British Museum, in common with most other major archaeological museums in Britain, uses human remains in its public galleries to help inform visitors about the
