On the conservation and display of human remains: "Museums Confront the Skeletons in Their Closets"

"Late last month the medical museum and officials who direct the anatomy collection of a sister organization at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, returned 33 skulls and skeletons to Australia and to members of tribes from the Torres Strait Islands between northern Australia and Papua New Guinea. That same week the German Museums Association issued new ethical guidelines for museums on how to handle human remains in the face of repatriation claims from former colonies where scientists gathered skulls and skeletons under murky circumstances more than a century ago."

Doreen Carvajal, "Museums Confront the Skeletons in Their Closets", International Herald Tribune, 25 May 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/25/arts/design/museums-move-to-return-human-remains-to-indigenous-peoples.html?ref=arts&_r=0

On the restitution of 20 skulls by the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin: Case 20 skulls - Namibia and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany