“Delisha’s mother, Janet Africa, deserves to know where her child’s sacred remains are.”
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How the Possession of Human Remains Led to a Public Reckoning at the Penn Museum
Philadelphia activists, UPenn students, and journalists contributed to the reckoning centering the museum’s holdings of the remains of MOVE bombing victims.
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Penn Museum Workers Accuse Leadership of Union-Busting Tactics
Workers are charging the museum’s leadership with “obstructing the free and fair election process through anti-union activity.”
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Penn Museum Apologizes for Holding Remains of MOVE Bombing Victims
The museum has not yet addressed demands to terminate the curator who was in charge of the remains.
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Penn Museum Kept Remains of MOVE Bombing Victim; Now, Activists Call for Curator’s Firing
Janet Monge used the victim’s remains in an online course titled “Real Bones: Adventures in Forensic Anthropology.”
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Controversy Erupts Over Penn Museum’s Possession of MOVE Bombing Victims’ Remains
The bones of Black Philadelphians killed in the 1985 airstrike have been kept at the museum for decades.
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After Protests, Penn Museum Vows to Repatriate Stolen Remains of Enslaved People
Students and activists have urged the museum at UPenn to abolish the Morton Collection and end use of data sourced from it.
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Activists Renew Calls for Penn Museum to Repatriate Skulls of Enslaved People
Philadelphia activists accuse the museum of lack of transparency in its proceedings to repatriate the crania.
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Penn Museum to Remove Skull Collection of Enslaved People
Activists and UPenn students have released a series of additional demands regarding the abolition of the Morton Cranial Collection.
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Refugees Connect Their Personal Stories with a Museum’s Ancient Artifacts
The Global Guides program at the Penn Museum hires recent refugees from the Middle East to give personalized tours. The leader of my tour was Moumena Saradar, a refugee from Syria who has lived in Philadelphia for two years.
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Penn Museum Unveils Its New Middle East Galleries
The Middle East Galleries are the first in a series of transformative gallery renovations taking place at the Penn Museum over the next several years.
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Travel the Early-20th-Century World in Over 700 Films from the Penn Museum Archives
The Digital Penn Museum is a new portal to thousands of objects, videos, lectures, and other archives of the institution for archaeology and anthropology.