Visitors to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow found signs explaining that managers had “removed human remains from this display as a mark of respect”.
The items removed include a coffin with the remains of Nekht, a priest, a mummified right hand recovered from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt, and a mummified male head and right foot.
The Daily Mail reported that Glasgow Life, a charitable organisation funded by the SNP-led Glasgow City Council, said it planned to remove further human remains from Kelvingrove as well as from St Mungo Museum.
The move was noticed by visitor Jonny McFarlane, who took to social media after taking his daughter to the ancient Egypt exhibition.
“My daughter has a book on the ancient Egyptians and has been quite animated by it, so we took her to Kelvingrove Museum to see their mummy,” he wrote. “Except it’s no longer there. All ‘human remains’ gone with the following sign up in place of exhibits that have been there for years.”....<<<Read More>>>...