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Decades After Philadelphia’s MOVE Bombing, Penn Museum Still Keeps Secrets on the Remains of 12-Year-Old Girl

by Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad April 20, 2022April 27, 2022

“Delisha’s mother, Janet Africa, deserves to know where her child’s sacred remains are.”

Posted inArt

How the Possession of Human Remains Led to a Public Reckoning at the Penn Museum

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Kinjal Dave and Jake Nussbaum October 31, 2021January 14, 2022

Philadelphia activists, UPenn students, and journalists contributed to the reckoning centering the museum’s holdings of the remains of MOVE bombing victims.

Posted inNews

Penn Museum Workers Accuse Leadership of Union-Busting Tactics

by Hakim Bishara July 16, 2021March 8, 2023

Workers are charging the museum’s leadership with “obstructing the free and fair election process through anti-union activity.”

Posted inNews

Penn Museum Apologizes for Holding Remains of MOVE Bombing Victims

by Hakim Bishara April 27, 2021April 29, 2021

The museum has not yet addressed demands to terminate the curator who was in charge of the remains.

Posted inNews

Penn Museum Kept Remains of MOVE Bombing Victim; Now, Activists Call for Curator’s Firing

by Hakim Bishara April 23, 2021April 28, 2021

Janet Monge used the victim’s remains in an online course titled “Real Bones: Adventures in Forensic Anthropology.”

Posted inNews

Controversy Erupts Over Penn Museum’s Possession of MOVE Bombing Victims’ Remains

by Hakim Bishara April 22, 2021April 28, 2021

The bones of Black Philadelphians killed in the 1985 airstrike have been kept at the museum for decades.

Posted inNews

After Protests, Penn Museum Vows to Repatriate Stolen Remains of Enslaved People

by Hakim Bishara April 13, 2021April 13, 2021

Students and activists have urged the museum at UPenn to abolish the Morton Collection and end use of data sourced from it.

Posted inNews

Activists Renew Calls for Penn Museum to Repatriate Skulls of Enslaved People

by Hakim Bishara April 7, 2021April 7, 2021

Philadelphia activists accuse the museum of lack of transparency in its proceedings to repatriate the crania.

Posted inNews

Penn Museum to Remove Skull Collection of Enslaved People

by Hakim Bishara July 23, 2020November 5, 2020

Activists and UPenn students have released a series of additional demands regarding the abolition of the Morton Cranial Collection.

Posted inArt

Refugees Connect Their Personal Stories with a Museum’s Ancient Artifacts

by Olivia Jia February 19, 2019February 18, 2019

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.

Posted inSponsored

Penn Museum Unveils Its New Middle East Galleries

by Penn Museum April 30, 2018

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.

Posted inArt

Travel the Early-20th-Century World in Over 700 Films from the Penn Museum Archives

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 12, 2017January 12, 2017

The Digital Penn Museum is a new portal to thousands of objects, videos, lectures, and other archives of the institution for archaeology and anthropology.

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