Skeletons on the Shelves: Museums’ Slow Return of Indigenous Remains

Active repatriation of indigenous remains in museums only gathered serious momentum in the 1980s. That is why Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s demand in August that London’s Natural History Museum return skulls of men believed to have been killed fighting against 19th-century British colonizers is important.

Source: Skeletons on the Shelves: Museums’ Slow Return of Indigenous Remains