Museum Modesty

Something caught my eye in the papers today.
Manchester Museum has a world renown Egyptology department and has been displaying its mummies both wrapped and unwrapped to the public for the last 125 years or so.

Now some bright spark (I am being sarcastic here . . .) has decided it offends the public to display the bodies naked. What's the bloody point of putting a shroud over the top of the mummy that I want to see?

I can put a table clothe on my table at home and imagine it's a mummy underneath in it's sarcophagus, with out actually waisting all that time going to the exhibit - if I was that way inclined, but I like going out to see this sort of stuff. This is the point.

Now I am pretty sure most reasonable people that go into a museum to the Egyptology department have no qualms about seeing dead naked bodies.
Surely the complaints have to come from some sort of religious nutters who's minuscule view must far out way the interests of the multitude, yet again.

Manchester Museum, you lost your hard won and respected reputation because of one ludicrous act on your part. For a bunch of really clever people, you have absolutely no common sense.

Egypt, a predominantly Muslim culture, have been making loads of cash from exhibiting the bodies for years. If it's okay for them to do it and take the cash - and Muslims of the world are the most fickle of people and so easily offended by everything - it's got to be okay for you to do it too, Manchester Museum.

Take the bloody covers off! If people are offended, they have the choice to leave if they want too.
Stop spoiling things for the multitude.