Bremen Overseas Museum returns human skulls to Hawaii

Stand date: February 1, 2022.

The facade of the Überseemuseum at Bremen train station

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• Bremen returns skulls to Hawaii
• The Senate decided that
• They had been in Bremen since the 19th and 20th centuries

Eight skulls from the Überseemuseum will soon be sent from Bremen to Hawaii. The Senate decided that. This means that the skulls are being returned to where they are believed to have come from: according to the culture department, the inscription on the bones indicates that they come from Hawaii. They entered the Bremen collection in the 19th and 20th centuries.

It is not the first time that human remains have been returned from the Überseemuseum: in 2006 and 2017 bones from the museum went to New Zealand, in 2018 two skulls from Bremen went back to Namibia. It is not yet clear when exactly the eight skulls will be sent to Hawaii.

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