Work by Raymond E. Mingst is part of the exhibit opening at the Curious Matter gallery in Jersey City. (Courtesy of Curious Matter) No, they're not really shrunken heads or the mummified remains ...

Working in the security department for the Metropolitan Museum of Art for nearly 40 years, John Barelli wrangled royalty, naked visitors, falling statues and shrunken human heads. He recounts ...

No one ever told me about the shrunken heads hidden away at the South Florida Museum. Real heads that used to be on the bodies of real people — that’s a little creepy when you think about it.

A shrunken head artifact that has been on display for decades at a Georgia university and was featured as a prop in the 1979 John Huston film "Wise Blood," has been ... told The Art Newspaper.

I’d heard that viewing the collection was like entering a 19th-century Wunderkammer, and that it had an impressive collection of shrunken heads. Close Sign In ...

A collection of shrunken heads which has for decades enthralled adults and children alike may be removed from an Oxford museum following complaints by an indigenous South American people.