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4 months agoTasmanian museum kept and displayed human remains for decades without families' consent, report finds
A Tasmanian pathology museum kept, and in some cases displayed, 177 specimens of human remains for decades without relatives' knowledge or coronial approval, according to a damning report published by the Magistrates Court of Tasmania. The report, handed down on 11 September, found that pathologists had retained human specimens and given them to the R. A. Rodda Museum of Pathology at the University of Tasmania in Hobart between 1966, when the museum was established, and 1991.