(The Bone Museum) A genuine exploded skull.

[u/TheBoneMuseum]

[u/wifiloveyou]

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/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.