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22 Oct 26
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Kelvingrove Museum removes Egyptian mummies from display due to lack of consent
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum bosses have removed mummies from display because of a lack of "informed consent" from the dead Egyptians.
The items removed from the Glasgow Life-run museum include a coffin with the remains of the priest Nekht, a mummified right hand recovered from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt ,and mummified male head and right foot.
The move was brought to attention after a visitor spotted that the display which previously contained the remains of Priest Nekht, was replaced with a sign reading: "We have removed human remains from this display as a mark of respect."
Glasgow Life said that the decision "reflects contemporary museum practice" and noted that it was working to remove more human remains from the History Discovery Centre and the Scotland’s Early People gallery at Kelvingrove Museum.
After the changes at the popular west end venue, Glasgow Life has plans to remove a coffin and mummified human remains from the St Mungo Museum, close to the city's cathedral.
Mummies have been on display at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum since it opened in 1901. Ancient Egyptians mummified their dead because they believed physical preservation of the body was essential for the soul to live forever in the afterlife.
A Glasgow Life spokesman told the Daily Mail: "The removal of human remains from display at Glasgow Life museums reflects contemporary museum practice.
"The International Council of Museums’ revised Code of Ethics, published in June 2026, states that museums 'should uphold the inherent dignity of human remains and promote respect for their significance'.
"The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Afrikan Reparations 2025 report, 'Laying Ancestors to Rest', also raises ethical concerns about the display of ancient Egyptian human remains due to the consistent disregard of the potential wishes of the ancestors and the intention of the communities that originally laid them to rest.
"Glasgow Life Museums’ draft Human Remains Policy proposes that human remains should only be displayed where there is documented and informed consent from the deceased individual or, in appropriate circumstances, their descendants.
"In the absence of such consent, we believe removing ancient Egyptian human remains from display is more respectful to the deceased individuals."
These organisations are infested with wokery.
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum bosses have removed mummies from display because of a lack of "informed consent" from the dead Egyptians.
The items removed from the Glasgow Life-run museum include a coffin with the remains of the priest Nekht, a mummified right hand recovered from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt ,and mummified male head and right foot.
The move was brought to attention after a visitor spotted that the display which previously contained the remains of Priest Nekht, was replaced with a sign reading: "We have removed human remains from this display as a mark of respect."
Glasgow Life said that the decision "reflects contemporary museum practice" and noted that it was working to remove more human remains from the History Discovery Centre and the Scotland’s Early People gallery at Kelvingrove Museum.
After the changes at the popular west end venue, Glasgow Life has plans to remove a coffin and mummified human remains from the St Mungo Museum, close to the city's cathedral.
Mummies have been on display at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum since it opened in 1901. Ancient Egyptians mummified their dead because they believed physical preservation of the body was essential for the soul to live forever in the afterlife.
A Glasgow Life spokesman told the Daily Mail: "The removal of human remains from display at Glasgow Life museums reflects contemporary museum practice.
"The International Council of Museums’ revised Code of Ethics, published in June 2026, states that museums 'should uphold the inherent dignity of human remains and promote respect for their significance'.
"The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Afrikan Reparations 2025 report, 'Laying Ancestors to Rest', also raises ethical concerns about the display of ancient Egyptian human remains due to the consistent disregard of the potential wishes of the ancestors and the intention of the communities that originally laid them to rest.
"Glasgow Life Museums’ draft Human Remains Policy proposes that human remains should only be displayed where there is documented and informed consent from the deceased individual or, in appropriate circumstances, their descendants.
"In the absence of such consent, we believe removing ancient Egyptian human remains from display is more respectful to the deceased individuals."
These organisations are infested with wokery.
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Wokeys and their tut tutting.
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Woke like an Egyptian...
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Hoping Betfair don't remove the thread because I didn't use the appropriate term 'birthing person' instead of mummy.
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When you think the Egytians were around circa 5000 years ago and what they achieved, here we are today coming up with ridiculous situatuons like this.
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I had 20 missed calls from Glasgow this morning I thought they would be about the hoops match, lads praying for at least a point or not another bad doing.
However now I think the calls might be about the mummies, the whole City must be devastated with this news. God almighty the grief this must be causing. Maybe the Egyptian lad Hassan can turn it on tonight for Celtic and give the great people in Glasgow some comfort in their hour of need. |
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It's probably best not to try and denigrate peoples concerns about changes to a place of cultural, historical and educational significance by comparing it to people praying a bunch of blokes they've never met before are successful at kicking a ball around a field unless you are trying to make yourself look like a uneducated thicko Malay.
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My one experience of seeing a Mummy was at an Egyptian exhibition at Liverpool Museum in the late 60's. It was quite mesmorising and certainly something you never forget. Plus it gave you a real life insite into how the Egyptians lived.To deprive people of that experience because some snotty nose knowall thinks they know best is a shame. Slowly but surely things are being taken away from us to a point where there'll be nothing left to get up for in the morning.
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Good on you shrewd dude if you enjoyed you’re visits to see the mummies, and obviously it means a lot to you, if you started a thread about it, was it weekly, monthly, annually you visited?
The people I know in Glasgow are more interested in their own mummy, and their own social life, which revolves around football. Great people in Glasgow remember they voted YES. |
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Yes I suspect that the people you know in Glasgow Malay aren't the sort that have much interest in the cultural, historical and educational institutions of Scotland. Many others like to attend these institutions though and comment or discuss on changes to them.
Kelvingrove is one of the top 5 most visited attractions in Scotland so is obviously of interest to many people even if not the Glaswegians you know. |
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Mummies are not part of Scottish cultural heritage and believe me I know a bit about cultural heritage because I’ve dealt with plenty planning applications and it’s a mandatory requirement for an EIA, sometimes a bit tricky to get through but certainly mummies are not in any shape or form part of Glasgow cultural heritage.
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Stop being an idiot Malay. Where did I say Egyptian mummies are part of Scottish cultural heritage?
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery is though one of the most significant cultural and historical institutions in Scotland and the most visited attraction in Glasgow so I doubt anyone really cares if the people you know from Glasgow have no interest in it. |
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Why are mummies in a Scottish museum?
How did they get there ? Why would mummies be an attraction in Scottish museum? |
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When i was a smallie i seen a crusaders body in a church in Dublin, sure i read somewhere someone stole his head a few years ago.
I don't know what he was doing there either. |
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Malay - Do you understand what the purpose of a museum is ?
There are a number of mummies on display at the British Museum, i doubt they were former residents of Bethnal Green or Islington. |
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The strange thing about this thread is you have actually praised this museum as being one of best attractions out, and obviously well managed and very much better informed in operating this than myself and I assume yourself but you are complaining about their operational decision.
You can’t have it both ways, maybe you just needed a daily fix by saying “wokery” whatever that means? |
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Dixie you’re better on football threads.
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So i take it that you don't understand what the function of a museum is then ?
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Every museum will have its own policy and objectives, the vast majority will be very specific to their targeted interested parties i would assume or they won’t stay open long.
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The strange thing about this thread is you have actually praised this museum as being one of best attractions out, and obviously well managed and very much better informed in operating this than myself and I assume yourself but you are complaining about their operational decision.
Your posts just get dafter and dafter. Yes I am complaining about their decision because it's ludicrous. That doesn't stop it from being one of the most visited attractions in Scotland or a institution of significance to scotland. Not sure what point you are trying to make on this thread other than your usual MO of sitting in a foreign country trying to tell people in other countries what their priorities should be and that they shouldn't discuss things that the weegie folk you know aren't also interested in. |
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So what you are saying is you are better qualified to make strategic decisions than the people who run a very successful museum?
Yes or no ? Btw best museum I visited was Kilmainham Gaol Dublin, any greyhound lads over for Irish Derby, well worth a visit, very educational. |
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good Museum visited it a few Years ago
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So what you are saying is you are better qualified to make strategic decisions than the people who run a very successful museum?
Yes I am clearly and the numerous other people that have been there over the years will be the same. You're an idiot if you think think it's the same people making this decision that have made it a successful museum since 1902. No doubt people like you said the same things about Budweiser and Nike before. |
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A lad came over years ago for Derby, I recommended it he says “ I’ve been in prison the last thing I want to do is visit a jail on holiday”
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Grandparents should seek consent before hugging their grandchildren, a new advert sponsored by the Irish government suggests.
The advert, for the Dublin R8pe Crisis Centre (DRCC), concludes with the narrator declaring: “Not everyone wants a hug. Even from the people who love them. Awkward? Maybe. Important? Absolutely.” The campaign has been suspended following widespread criticism Strange you would think these wokeys were better qualified than their critics at making strategic decisions on how to use Irish taxpayers money. |
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No problem with mummies hugging kids are we not seriously off topic now ?
If you want to discuss you’re latest post, start a new thread because I have little knowledge of what you are talking about |
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I live 3 miles from the Greenwich , but Malay is telling me some Khazi in Dooblin Gaol is worth a visit
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I never told you anything you have not been on this thread, so how do you come to that conclusion ? unless you have multiple logins to talk woke
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Btw have you ever visited Dublin for greyhound Derby or planning to, then I definitely didn’t tell you anything even if you have numerous log ins.
We’re you live everyday is irrelevant to my post. |