Penn Museum will no longer display exposed human remains
In an update to its Human Remains Policy, the archeology museum will no longer consider exhibiting any exposed human remains.
2 years ago
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Gustave Courbet's landscape, depicting the source of the Lison River in France, was discovered in a storage box at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 2016. It was so darkened that only a few letters of the artist's signature were visible, (Emma Lee/WHYY)