The American Museum of Natural History is removing from public display some 12,000 human remains under suspicion the bones were acquired by grave-robbing from Black and indigenous peoples, according to a report.
The famed New York City museum will remove a dozen exhibits to investigate the origins of the bones, according to an internal memo obtained by The New York Times.
“These are ancestors and are in some cases victims of violent tragedies or representatives of groups who were abused and exploited, and the act of public exhibition extends that exploitation,” he wrote. The workers discovered the remains in Manhattan while working on a site that used to be a slave cemetery during the colonial era. The construction crew piled the skulls and bones into a pyramid shape and took a picture.
While 1,000 of the remains have been returned to descendants over the past 30 years as mandated by federal law, the American Museum of Natural History has been slow to give the rest back.
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