Premier Exhibitions Inc., a leading provider of museum exhibitions around the world, settled a probe by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo over the origin of the cadavers in “Bodies … The Exhibition” in New York City Thursday.

Premier will put $50,000 in escrow to provide ticket refunds to customers who said they wouldn’t have attended the exhibition if they had known the questionable origins of the bodies and parts it displays, Mr. Cuomo said today in a statement.

The agreement “brings an end to Premier’s practice of using bodies of undocumented origins in their exhibitions,” according to the statement. Premier must now obtain documentation of the cause of death and origins of the cadavers and body parts it displays in New York City and have proof of consent. Mr. Cuomo said advocacy groups had charged that some of the bodies on exhibit were Chinese prisoners who had been executed.

“Premier Exhibitions has profited from displaying the remains of individuals who may have been tortured and executed in China,” Mr. Cuomo said in the statement. “Despite repeated denials, we now know that Premier itself cannot demonstrate the circumstances that led to the death of the individuals.”

A spokeswoman for Premier, Katherine Morgenstern, said that Mr. Cuomo subpoenaed the Atlanta-based company in February seeking information on how the bodies in the exhibit were obtained.