The room of the dead: how a museum became a halfway house for bones and spirits

Overwhelming on a human scale, the Indigenous remains held at the South Australian Museum speak to a terrible stain on Adelaide's past. But justice is coming

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the following article contains descriptions of deceased Indigenous persons.

An unnerving echo cracks the silence as the key turns the tumblers inside the heavy lock - a brassy, rasping click, click - before the door opens on to a pitch-black temporary ossuary for thousands of lost and restless dead.