Resumen

CHAPARRO, María Gabriela; GARCIA LABORDE, Pamela  y  GUICHON FERNANDEZ, Rocío. Management of Delicate Cultural Materials: the Human Remains of the Museo Etnográfico Municipal Dámaso Arce, Olavarría, Argentina. Intervención (Méx. DF) [online]. 2020, vol.11, n.21, pp.151-184.  Epub 17-Oct-2022. ISSN 2007-249X.  https://doi.org/10.30763/intervencion.226.v1n21.05.2020.

Museums that keep human remains must conform to a set of regulations and professional recommendations for their safekeeping. The ICOM (International Council of Museums) Code of Ethics identifies these pieces as sensitive cultural materials and has a number of related guidelines. This will form the premise of this work, which aims to present the procedures that are being adopted to legally and technically condition the human skeletal remains of seven persons that are located in the Museo Etnográfico Municipal Dámaso Arce (MEDA, for its initials in Spanish) de Olavarría, in Argentina. Currently this museum is not open to the public and its archaeological collections are stored in a municipal warehouse. Based on a diagnosis on the state of the overall collection, the human skeletal remains and the contents of a report submitted a few years ago, several actions were put in place to reverse and remedy some of the identified problems.

Palabras llave : museum; collections; human remains; sensitive cultural materials; Argentina.

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