This Halloween’s Mummy Problem: Museums Frightened by Their Own Exhibits

Halloween is approaching, and mummies are making their annual appearance in haunted houses, horror movies, and neighborhood decorations.

Yet one Scottish museum has apparently found something more frightening than an ancient Egyptian rising from his coffin: Displaying him without documented consent.

Bosses at one of Scotland’s most popular museums are at the centre of a ‘woke’ row after removing mummies from display because of a lack of ‘informed consent from the deceased individual’.

Glasgow Life, an arm’s-length charitable organisation funded by SNP-run Glasgow City Council, said a mummified male head was among the items removed at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

The changes came to light after a visitor posted an image on X of a sign at the museum stating: ‘We have removed human remains from this display as a mark of respect.’

Glasgow Life chiefs said ‘human remains’ would no longer be on show as this ‘reflects contemporary museum practice’...