Mummy Stories

What is your story of encounter with human remains?

Your Mummy Stories is the heart of the Mummy Stories community. It is a platform for anyone to share their stories of encounter with human remains, in and out of the museum. Want to write your own story? Everyone welcome!

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Collecting, displaying, returning skulls in museum collections

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

The medical body as spectacle: Body Worlds London

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

Controversial bodies at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris

The Musée de l'Homme in Paris hosts an extensive collection of human remains and casts which carry with them a controversial history.

St. Michan’s Mummies, Dublin, Ireland

To the north of the popular tourist destinations below the River Liffey, in an industrial section of the growing city, stands a somewhat ...

Mummies in the art museum

How do mummies, or the broader spectrum of burial rituals (in Egypt and further afield), fit within the context of the art museum?

Displaying human remains

Human mummies have never been all that fascinating to me, sure, I had the little kid fascination, but I think I always knew there was som...

A lost mummy in Rueil-Malmaison

In 2010, a small Egyptian mummy was discovered in a waste disposal in the suburb of Paris.

Mummies of Phillippi, West Virginia

I first heard about the “West Virginia Mummies of the Insane” on a podcast, and I immediately knew I needed to know more. The podcast des...

Hazel Farris: The Mummy of Bessemer, Alabama

Having been an Alabama native my entire life, I know that it is a weird state. Alabama became even weirder when this past summer I learne...

Neskhons, Knoxville, Tennessee

My first encounter with the mummy Neskhons, also known as Djed-Khons-Iwef-Ankh, was in the 1990s on a field trip to the McClung Museum at...

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