UK has opportunity to ‘become a world leader in international repatriation’
Government should set national policy to help fill Europe-wide skills gap, says new policy briefing
Human remains
Museums invited to update entries on human remains database
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Perspectives on human remains
Geraldine Kendall Adams delves into the moral and ethical arguments that surround the highly sensitive issue of human remains held in museum collections
Smithsonian moves towards ‘informed consent’ principle for human remains
Institution acknowledges 'morally abhorrent' historic practices and commits to repatriating majority of remains
American Museum of Natural History removes all human remains from display
Many of the 12,000 remains in the museum's collection came from Indigenous and enslaved populations
Oxford museums return ancestral remains to Aboriginal communities
Remains were acquired as part of archaeological and anthropological practices that ‘caused much hurt’
Hunterian Museum in London to reopen on 16 May
Venue will acknowledge its impact on medical history ‘both for good and bad’
Debate over use of the term ‘mummy’ in UK museums
CNN reports that museums are starting to rebrand ancient Egyptian material
Honouring the Ancient Dead completes database of ancient human remains
Resource holds records of human tissue held in more than 300 local museums
Hunterian Museum defends decision to retain skeleton of ‘Irish giant’ Charles Byrne
Specimen will be removed from display but will continue to be available for medical research
Trinity College Dublin to work with islanders on return of stolen skulls
Repatriation momentum grows as Cambridge University confirms return of Benin bronzes
Wellcome Collection returns human remains to Denmark for burial
Member of Danish resistance died in concentration camp during second world war