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THE SKELETON IN THE MUSEUM CLOSET
Hidden away for eighty five years, the tragic story of Minik, a boy who was said to have discovered his own father skeleton in a glass display case in the American Museum of Natural History, has come back to haunt the museum.
Lured to New York by false promises, exhibited to the public as a curiosity and forced to live in the basement of the museum, Minik died in 1918. His story raises unpleasant questions about the insensitivity of the scientific community of an era long past, when eminent anthropologists competed fiercely to bring live specimens of people to their laboratories.
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