"Human Remains" isn't specific enough

[Woodenwonder]

Last weekend had an impromptu wander around the world museum in Liverpool. (Fantastic and free). Anyway in the Egypt section it states that the next exhibit features human remains or words to that effect. I'm thinking a sarcophagus with a mummy inside. And yes that was there, a couple of examples of wrapped up mummies, tastefully and respectfully displayed. Turn the corner and there are 3+ corpses. Not wrapped up and obviously somewhat dessicated.

I'm not squeamish but I find looking at a collection of led out bodies (albeit 1000s of years old) a bit disrespectful for want of a better word. It made me feel really weird.

Yes these souls are long gone but I was not prepared to see them laid out in that way. I don't think I was even expecting full bodies.

Aibu to think the sign could have been a touch more descriptive before entering the room?

The museum is a fantastic place but I just felt a little rattled.

Egyptians would probably be glad their bodies are being safely preserved instead of being ground up to make medicine or charms.

They are human remains. Not sure how much more specific you can be without providing a reference image and defeating the point of the warning.

It would be weird if you didn't feel something looking at them imo. But the warning was there and there really isn't any way to describe the impact it could have on some people, especially considering that the way you feel about it isn't necessarily what other people would feel.

I, for instance, find it fascinating and it always makes me think about who they were and what their lives were like, but don't feel it is inappropriate for them to be displayed.

This. Don't be so ridiculous.

We are just back from a break to Liverpool. We were in that museum and went to the Egyptian bit too. I think "Human Remains" was perfectly clear and the gallery was fantastic. DC were fascinated by who all the mummies were and which gods they worshipped.

YABU.

Human remains isn’t vague, it’s accurate and covers it.

Do people have to have evey single thing laid out for them these days?

Interesting. I think it was quite a catch all description that didn't quite prepare me for what (who) was displayed and how but apparently I'm a bit of a thicko and ridiculous 🤣

More importantly do they still have the cat mummies?

Maybe intact/complete human remains would be a better description. It wouldn't bother me and DH but I don't think our 10 year old would like it and it would likely lead to sleepless nights. On the other hand I would take him to something like bodies where it's organs/systems not whole corpses.

Honestly at this rate museums are going to need 10 minute trigger warning videos before we go in . It’ll be like when you go trampolining and you have to watch a special safety vid first .

Why is it someone else's responsibility to protect you from reality?

All these 'warnings' and 'triggers' for grown adults!?

The Bodies exhibition I saw was full bodies, so you should research it if you do decide you want to go.

I love museums esp the science museum.we have a local museum that has various mummies. It's toe has fallen off. I have to be honest it's not how I woukd choose to spend my eternity, I doubt it's what they had in mind either. It just reminds me of wiping the dist off and cataloguing samples in formaldehyde. It made me feel 🤢🤮 cleaning my pickled rag worms. They was older than me

Don't ever go to the catacombs in Palermo OP

Yes 😀

Really? You needed a warning that the ‘human remains’ in a an ancient civilisation section might include skeletons or mummified remains????????
What did you expect?
A sarcophagus is not human remains, it’s a box.
I find squeamishness about such long dead people so odd.

There’s a museum I went to in the Netherlands that had a baby in a jar and an eye with a tumor attached. Can’t remember the name.

Also in the Liverpool museum is a skeleton of a child… with no warning

I think that was adequate warning.

The museum in Hiroshima has a tin hat with a section of flesh burnt into it, which remained after the wearer was otherwise obliterated.

That's the one thats stuck with me, although mummified remains in Peru & Argentina follow closely behind.

I was at a museum recently that had display of human remains, full skeletons laid out in the way they'd been found in the local burial mounds.

Next to them was a sign that said please do not take photos out of respect for the human remains.

Good grief! They're two thousand years old! With a warning outside! YABU!

"I bought a book called, 'murder in Black'" but it didn't tell me there'd be a scene when someone was bludgeoned to death and I think they should have warned me about that. The blurb was not specific enough" bollocks

I think so yes but I didn't see them myself , I was gawping at some hieroglyphics for ages and then the actually mummy room , I saw them in the catalogue though I think