PHILADELPHIA â Following more than a year of growing controversy and a demonstration last week, the Penn Museum apologized Monday for the âunethical possession of human remainsâ in its Morton skull collection and vowed repatriation and reburial of the remains of more than a dozen anonymous Black Philadelphians.
The remains will be returned to congregations or communities in Philadelphia for interment in a historically Black cemetery, as yet undetermined, according to Penn officials.
In addition, the museum said it will seek agreements with communities abroad enabling the return of dozens of skulls of enslaved individuals from Cuba that are also contained in the 1,000-skull collection, amassed by 19th-century doctor and white supremacist Samuel George Morton.
Penn Museum apologizes for its unethical collection of human skulls and says it will repatriate remains of Black Philadelphians and others
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