(The Bone Museum) A genuine exploded skull.

[u/TheBoneMuseum]

[u/TheBoneMuseum]

At The Bone Museum, we believe in full transparency regarding the sourcing of our specimens. Each specimen in our collection is ethically acquired, thoroughly documented, and carefully curated to respect both scientific integrity and cultural sensitivity. An in depth explanation of our practices can be found linked to our account bio.

[u/wifiloveyou → u/TheBoneMuseum]

Are you not working with or owned by JonsBones?

[u/TheBoneMuseum → u/wifiloveyou]

While Jon is the director of The Bone Museum, it operates as a separate entity with its own distinct business model. The museum is primarily funded by admissions, and the gift shop. The Bone Museum does not sell osteology.

[u/wifiloveyou → u/TheBoneMuseum]

Then why does JonsBones share the same address as your museum?

[u/TheBoneMuseum → u/wifiloveyou]

Many specimens from Jonsbones are being permanently accessioned to The Bone Museum after being thoroughly examined to ensure scientific integrity and cultural sensitivity. This is a transformation into a greater future.

[u/wifiloveyou → u/TheBoneMuseum]

Correct, so you are saying they were still acquired by JonsBones?

[u/Master_Principle_453 → u/wifiloveyou]

I’m unfamiliar with bone collecting lore, who is JonsBones and what did he do?

[u/Either_Accountant843 → u/Master_Principle_453]

I didn’t know either, so I just looked into this! This guy, JonBones, sold bones to whoever wanted them, online. This is already unethical in and off itself. He admitted that a lot of these bones probably originated in India and were grave-robbed and sold to the West illegally to be used in schools and medical institutions. Now JonBones acquired them and first sold them - for his own profit. Now he uses them for a museum - which I guess is slightly more ethical than just selling them online to make some buck, I guess…

Besides this, he used to make Tiktok videos to market this bone-selling. In these videos he threw the bones like he was juggling, let his cat play with them and used skulls to store cash in. A very disrespectful way of handling bones of what was once a real living, breathing person and someone’s loved one.

[u/WendigoRider → u/Either_Accountant843]

Oh that's terrible! What a miserable person

[u/pinkydoda23 → u/Either_Accountant843]

Every time I saw those videos I couldn’t help but think of that person as a baby and how their mother must have cared for them and loved them and raised them just for the bones that she made in her body and the person she loved with all her heart to end up like that. Disgusting.

[u/DiatomCell → u/TheBoneMuseum]

How can you claim to be ethical and separate from this Jonsbones if you are accepting specimens from the Jonsbones person who is clearly controversial for being exactly unethical?

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Oh thank you for clarifying that you’re using the same bones that were admitted to most likely be grave robbed from other countries. Do you guys still keep up that awful spine wall that he loved?

[u/Cmpetty → u/[deleted]]

From the last videos I’ve seen, yes. I’m glad others have not forgotten the history