Your Stories

​Since 2017, nearly a hundred individuals from around the globe have shared their own stories of inteactions with human remains in museums. These are not stories about the mummified people in museums; they are stories about individuals inteacting with human remains in museums and wanting to ask more questions about why they are here and how it made them feel to see them, to learn their stories, to navigate the museum space.. They are stories that reveal how people like you feel,  think, how they confront history and mortality, how they wrestle with ethics in real time. They are stories that remind us that the conversation about human remains in museums is never just academic — it is deeply human.​​

 

Mummy Stories is also a platform for curators, researchers, and emerging voices in the museum world. It is a place to share insights, to test ideas, to experiment with narrative and ethics. ​This is an invitation for you to be part of Mummy Stories.  

 

Today, your voice, your story, your experience can influence decision-making in museum practices ; it all starts with your own submission of a story to Mummy Stories. Your story can be a single line: “I went to X museum, I saw a mummified body, and this is how I felt about it.” Or it can be a longer reflection, a blog, a university essay, a piece of research you want to share with the public.