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Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Dry Bones … Excavating Memory, Digging up the Past
by Katie Donington Above all, he must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the ‘matter...
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Buried on Campus: When Are Remains Human?
by Sarah Chaney Katie’s recent post on the ethics of displaying human remains in museums, along with the recent Grant Museum exhibition on the topic, raised some important questions about...
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Justice for Magdalens
by Lisa Plotkin Many visitors to the Grant Museum of Zoology reacted very strongly to the recent exhibit Buried on Campus, which ran from April 23rd until July 13th. In fact, almost every...
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Tattooing in Ancient Egypt
by Gemma Angel Of all the objects on display in the Petrie Museum of Egyptology, there are two particular groups of items that immediately jumped out at me when I first began to look...
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Tattooing in Ancient Egypt Part 2: The Mummy of Amunet
by Gemma Angel In my previous post, I wrote about the possible connection between objects in the Petrie Museum, and ancient Egyptian tattooing practices. One of the greatest challenges in...
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A Dark Chapter in Tattoo History: Nazi Prisoner Tattoos
by Gemma Angel Edit note: This post was amended on 25 August 2023 in order to remove an image of the tattoo, remove broken links, provide further detail on the UCL Pathology Collections...
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Sword Swallowing & Surgical Performance
by Sarah Chaney We know sadly little about the sword swallower’s sword that resides in the UCL Pathology Collection: not even how long it has been here. What we do know is that this performer...
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Should human remains be displayed in museums?
If you have ever visited the Petrie Museum you are unlikely to have missed the man buried in a pot. In the past the pragmatic scientist in me had just regarded this as a skeleton in a pot; spending...
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