For example:
- A London museum holding the remains of a stillborn Congolese baby, removed reference to the foetus in its catalogue of items that can be viewed for medical research after public criticism.
- In March, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for African Reparations published Laying Ancestors to Rest, a report calling on government to tighten regulations applying to human remains older than the 100 years under the Human Tissue Act.
- The Wellcome-funded research project Antitheses is exploring the ethics of displaying human remains as part of the Reimagining Museums theme. This project uses creative and collaborative methods to explore the polarising debates around holding and display of contested objects in museums to inform a vision of an ethical museum of the future.
To generate thinking on this issue, two interactive sessions considered issues associated with collecting, storing and displaying human (ancestral) remains in museums.
