Looking at human remains with care

You can decide whether to include human remains in your visit. A body in a case belonged to a living person, and looking at it is a different experience from looking at a vessel or a carved figure. You can take time, stop reading or pass the display. The Museum contains people’s remains from different places and periods. Their survival has different causes. Those differences help explain what researchers can observe, while reminding us that a preserved body does not provide a complete account of a life.