The Negro of Banyoles (Catalan: negre de Banyoles; Spanish: negro de Banyoles or negro de Bañolas) was the taxidermied body of a Southern African man that was displayed for more than 80 years at the Darder Museum in Banyoles, Catalonia, Spain. Originally preserved by French taxidermists in the nineteenth century and exhibited as a natural history specimen, the display later became the subject of an international controversy over the public exhibition of human remains.
The Negro of Banyoles (Catalan: negre de Banyoles; Spanish: negro de Banyoles or negro de Bañolas) was the taxidermied body of a Southern African man that was displayed for more than 80 years at the Darder Museum in Banyoles, Catalonia, Spain. Originally preserved by French taxidermists in the nineteenth century and exhibited as a natural history specimen, the display later became the subject of an international controversy over the public exhibition of human remains.
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