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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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 hear...

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 M...

The Matchmaker Mummy

People see mummies as something unique, ancient, mysterious, etc. Of course for some they are just that, but we sometimes forget what els...

Munch and the Chachapoya Mummy

I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down – the clouds were staine...

The mummies of Carmo Convent

The first time I could stare at the eternal gaze of an embalmed deceased took place in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. There is located ...

The Mummy of Nesmin

In 1878, Miss Valerie Susan Langdon secretly married Sir Henry Meux, 3rd baronet and grandson to the owner of Horseshoe Brewery based in ...

Encountering Mummies in Glasgow

Dr Campbell Price first encountered Egyptian mummies in Glasgow, but it is their smell that he remembers most vividly. In this Mummy Stories

Mummies at the Museo Egizio

When you are a child and you live in Turin, you will not be able to skip at least one visit to the worldwide famous Egyptian Museum: your...

An Egyptian Mummy in the Sam Walter Museum

I work as Curator and Archivist at the Sam Waller Museum in northern Manitoba. As with every museum, there are an astonishing number of i...

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