In the 80s our school went to a museum for a natural history exhibit.

We got to touch all sorts of fossils and artifacts and minerals... We even got to "play" with a small chunk of asbestos.... Like wtf? They knew damn well in the 80s that shit kills people, why would they let a bunch of kids scrape away at a softball sized chunk of it with their bare hands without any sort of respiratory protection?

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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

There were shrunken heads from South America on display at the university’s natural history museum back when our class went there for a field trip in 6th grade. It was much smaller than the new natural history museum but had some great exhibits without walking much. Putting human remains on exhibit is no longer done and I wonder if they were sold to Ripley’s for their exhibits because I saw some when they had a little museum in Las Vegas in the early 90’s.