Welcome to Humanity on Display, a digital exhibition about human remains and the museums that display them. During the exhibit you will meet:
1. Carol Orzel, a woman with a rare disease who enthusiastically planned to donate her body to a museum
2. the Old Croghan Man, an Iron-age man whose body was preserved by natural environmental conditions but who wouldn’t have been able to imagine the concept of a museum, let alone consent to donate his body to one
3. the “missing skeletons” of Native American and First Nations people that were on display in a variety of national museums until the passing of the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). 

The exhibit will teach you about the remains themselves and about the ethical discussion that surrounds human bodies in museum settings. Throughout the exhibit, you will be presented with options of which "paths" you wish to take to learn more. Choose the path that best suits your comfort level: looking at human remains (even in a digital space) and learning how these people died can be a strange experience, and everyone is interested in the details to a different extent. 

Along the way, consider a few questions: 
1. Does it feel strange to look at a skeleton, even when you know that the person was enthusiastic about being in a museum after her death? How would experiences of observing the skeleton change if there was more separation between it and who the person was in life?
2. How old does a body have to be before it becomes difficult to think of it as a person? Is there a way to balance both the historicity and the personhood of the remains? How might people of the future interpret current beliefs about the way bodies should be treated after death?
3. Is it right that one group of people gets to decide what happens to an artifact that has meaning in the history of many different people? What about when that artifact is also a person? Does the answer change if the power dynamics of the artifact’s discovery, display, and removal are changed?

Enjoy the exhibit, learn lots, and most of all: have fun!