The Human Remains: Museums and the Mishandled Dead
An essay by Atlanta Tsiaoukkas.
Britain is full of bones and human viscera. Museums and archives heave under the collective weight of skulls and organs swathed in ethanol, medical artifacts and taxidermied creatures. Orderly and labelled, it is easy to forget that these objects are the dismantled parts of a myriad of bodies, that museums are …