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Ethan James

Museum kept and displayed human remains without consent

A university museum kept autopsy remains for teaching and research without family permission. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

Human specimens were collected, and in some cases publicly displayed, by a museum for decades without the knowledge or consent of families.

The University of Tasmania's R A Rodda Museum collected remains from coronial autopsies from 1966 to 1991 for teaching and research purposes.

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