See the full piece at the New York Times. The Guardian notes other museums, including Philadelphia's Mütter Museum and Penn Museum and Harvard University's Peabody Museum, are facing similar scrutiny over their collections. "Figuring out the answers to exactly what we have here, and how to actually describe that as completely as we can, is something that is important to do moving forward," Decatur said. The storage facilities where the museum's remains are kept will also be improved. The museum will remove all the human bones it currently has on display, and anthropologists will determine their identities and origins. Some of the most controversially collected remains in the museum's possession include the remains of 2,200 Native Americans that are being repatriated to descendants at a pace some say is too slow remains of five Black people dug up in 1903 from a cemetery for enslaved people and remains of 400 mostly poor New Yorkers whose unclaimed bodies were given to medical schools in the 1940s, then transferred to the museum in a process that may have been illegal. It took me a while to get them fixed, and so Im happy to officially announce that Scrutiny is available on Github & Docker Hub. Unfortunately, several breaking issues were pointed out, specifically around support for NVMe & SCSI drives, delaying my announcement. Researchers from the 19th and 20th centuries also, he notes, "used such collections to advance deeply flawed scientific agendas rooted in white supremacy," such as eugenics. As promised, Scrutiny was almost immediately open-sourced.
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