For years, the museum occupied a prominent site on the National Mall, then moved to Walter Reed on Georgia Avenue in 1971. Today, it has its own building in Silver Spring, where it's a field-trip destination for schoolkids. But as anthropological and medical museums reckon with questions of medical consent, repatriation of human remains, and histories of racism, some are facing questions. The Smithsonian-which still has more than 250 human brains originally collected in an attempt to prove racist anatomical theories-has created a task force to try to return remains to descendants. The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia has been publicly grappl
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