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The Penn Museum is home to the The Morton Cranial Collection, which includes nearly 900 human skulls obtained during the early 19th century by Philadelphia scientist Dr. Samuel Morton. His research was used to lend scientific support to white supremacy. R. Perez/Penn Museum
Dozens of human skulls of Black people some hundreds of years old will be returned to their communities of origin for reburial, according to a commitment by the University of Pennsylvania s Museum of Archeology and Anthropology.
Last week, the Penn Museum issued both an apology for possessing the skulls in its historic Morton Collection, and outlined a plan to repatriate them.