Penn Museum to no longer openly display human remains following years of activist demands thedp.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thedp.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Last Updated:
Pennsylvania Museum Apologises For Collecting Skulls Of Black Americans
A museum in Pennsylvania apologised for collecting the skulls of Black Americans. The museum also vowed to return the skulls to their communities.
Image Credits: Twitter/@PennMuseum
A museum in Pennsylvania on Monday, April 12, apologised for collecting the skulls of Black Americans. The museum also vowed to return the skulls to their respective communities. The director of Penn Museum, Dr. Christopher Woods, issued a statement in which he expressed regret and on behalf of the museum and the University of Pennsylvania of Archaeology and Anthropology. “The Penn Museum and the University of Pennsylvania apologize for the unethical possession of human remains in the Morton Collection”, said Dr. Woods.
Penn Museum will repatriate Morton Collection in effort to repair racist and colonial practices thedp.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thedp.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia. Courtesy of the Penn Museum.
The University of Pennsylvania has announced plans to repatriate a group of human skulls, some of which belonged to enslaved peoples, that were unethically collected by a 19th-century scientist to support his white supremacist views.
Some 1,300 crania of various ages are included in the Penn Museum’s Morton Collection, named after the Philadelphia-based physician who amassed them, Samuel Morton.
In 2019, a group of students at the university discovered that 53 skulls in the collection came from individuals enslaved in Havana, Cuba, while two others belonged to enslaved Americans in Philadelphia.