UK Lawmakers Call for Ban on Display and Sale of Human Remains

Museums and auction houses should not hold human remains, UK lawmakers say

Lawmakers and campaigners in the United Kingdom are pushing for an end to the display of human remains in museums and the sale of human body parts in auction houses.

Putting ethics at the forefront in the use of human skeletal remains

Department of Anatomy researcher Professor Siân Halcrow is collaborating with two biological anthropology colleagues from the United States to review the use of human skeletal remains for teaching and research.

The liberal elites are hypocrites in demanding our museums stop displaying mummies

The Egyptian dead aren’t complaining about their quarters at the British Museum – so why should a group of woke MPs whinge about it?

MPs demand ban on sale and display of African ancestral remains

Ancestral remains taken during colonial rule continue to be held in UK institutions, causing deep distress to African diaspora communities

Calls to repatriate foreign remains, artefacts from UK

Bell Ribeiro-Addy. Photo: Getty Images Some British lawmakers, NGOs and researchers have called on the government to fix what they have described as a "legislative vacuum" that allows museums and other institutions to hold and display African ancestral remains taken during the colonial era.

‘Not commercial objects but human beings’: Calls grow for UK to ban display, sale of ancestral remains

LONDON, March 13 — Some British lawmakers, NGOs and researchers have called on the government to fix what they have described as a “legislative vacuum” that allows museums and other institutions to hold and display African ancestral remains taken during the colonial era. For centuries, African ancestral remains, such as mummified bodies, skulls and other body parts, were brought to Britain and to other former colonial powers, often as “trophies”…