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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Mummies and the Ritual of the Museum

As an art historian and an artist, I do not get many opportunities to discuss mummies. Nor have I spent much time intensively researching...

Ötzi the Iceman

As an art historian, I do not have many occasions to discuss mummies, but the enigmatic murder history of “Ötzi the Iceman” stole my...

Mummies of Brooklyn

Egyptian Mummies have captivated me since I was a child. Through my years growing up in New York with, and then working at, our beloved...

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