The Penn University Museum Is Working to Repatriate the Skulls of Enslaved Peoples in its Collection Following Student Protests

The skulls were collected by a discredited physician.

July 28, 2020

The Penn Museum at the University of Pennsylvania is putting in storage a collection of more than 1,000 skulls, including some that belonged to enslaved peoples, following an outcry from students.

The crania, which were held in a private classroom, belonged to the collection of Samuel George Morton, a 19th-century Philadelphia-based physician known for his “broadly white supremacist” views, according to the institution.

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