Our cultural heritage (physical and intellectual) has a deep inpact on
shaping our identity (individual and collective) in terms of how we integrate with groups we consider we share common bonds with.
This process of understanding the world we live in as well as our past is being attained with the material culture and the information that can provide in terms of its usage and carrying symbolism; through it an insight into how past societies have lived is being succed. This cultural heritage it is called to be preserved and bequeathed to future generations by the cultural sector professionals.
The ‘Human Remains Museum’ is the first entirely online museum in Greece and amonst the few in Europe and it aims to lead the way to other Institutions that face financial problems threaten their survival by providing a platform that makes it possible of professionals on the cultural sector to promote their own anthropological samples, which either wise will be doomed to be deserted.
Its mission is to bring together both local and international audiences into a collection that shed light to how past societies around the globe have lived and died using deconstruction logic in the way that human remains are viewed so far.
It is also a museum that offers the ability for scholars, researchers, PhD students and excavators to have their human remains (processed or not) exhibited and promoted and save them from abandonment and desert in a storage case; all should have affiliations to University Schools or/and related public services.
After having this idea and earning the collaboration of Dr Kranioti, University of Edinburgh, who provided the material the idea has been spread from mouth to mouth to others and the museum started to be built.
Our proposal is being focused on human remains; however, the same platform can be used for any other material.
For us the future will be to make the ‘Human remains Museum’ an established Instituition of International reputation that will collect and expose related material from around the globe and from the most reliable sources.
This platform can become a reference point both for collectors , who wish to find a way to expose their collections , but also for the Public Sector, who can this manner decrease the expenses and avoid clossing museums down entirely.