For most of middle school, I carried around a pencil tin in the shape of an Egyptian sarcophagus. When teachers asked about its...

In this blog post adapted from her master’s thesis, Hannah Reder explores how museum ethics can affect the interpretation and display of...

Irtyersenu, the mummy of a c. 600 BC Egyptian woman, has long been a subject of interest in the academic community, from her original...

This guest blog by Claudia von der Borch questions the conditions of Article 4.3 of the ICOM code of Ethics on human remains in museums.

In February 2019, the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) hosted a one-day conference on the management of human remains from colonial...

The Body Worlds exhibitions have been touring the world for over two decades. The decision to install the largest exhibition in...