"“We know a great deal about what museums display, but far less about how they acquire, borrow, deaccession, and return objects,” PennCHC's executive director and the project's co-principal investigator Richard M. Leventhal said in press materials about the survey, which he added “will help us understand this for the first time on a national scale.”"
"Soon after, however, it came under fire again for allowing remains recovered from the 1985 MOVE police bombing to be used in a forensic anthropology course. The Penn Museum has since continued sponsoring archaeological missions abroad."
A national survey of museum collecting practices will be launched by the Penn Cultural Heritage Center at the Penn Museum. The survey, titled the National Survey of Museum Collecting Practices, is part of the Museums: Missions and Acquisitions Project. Data will be collected from May 20 through August 20 and will cover policies, acquisitions, deaccessions, and related practices. Results are scheduled for 2027. The Penn Museum has previously limited incoming antiquities and has faced public scrutiny over the handling of human remains, including skulls from enslaved people and remains recovered from the 1985 MOVE police bombing. The Museums: Missions and Acquisitions Project is supported by a National Leadership Grant and builds on earlier cultural property and coordination efforts.
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