| Author |
Museums Australia |
| Title |
Continuous cultures, ongoing responsibilities : principles and guidelines for Australian museums working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage. |
| Portion of title |
Principles and guidelines for Australian museums working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Canberra : Museums Australia, 2005. |
| ©2005. |
| Description |
26 pages ; 30 cm. |
| Level of description |
Item (Corporate series 114) |
| Note |
Title from cover. |
| "February 2005" |
| Available electronically via the World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references. |
| Contents |
Preamble: Taking Previous Possessions, new obligations into a new decade -- Principles and guidelines: Guidelines for policy and procedure: collections: management, interpretation, access, ancestral remains, secret/sacred and other sensitive material -- Employment and training -- Direction and management -- New technologies; Relationships and communication - Application of Continuous cultures, ongoing responsibilities. |
| Summary |
A review of the 1993 policy document ' Previous Possessions, New Obligations' has resulted in an updated policy document for museums in Australia; updates are in the areas of intellectual and cultural property rights; broadening role of museum and gallery collections; technological advances; regional and local issues; implementation measures for management and interpretation of and access to collections have been adopted; ancestral remains; secret / sacred material. |
| Subjects |
Museums -- Collection management -- Australia |
| Cultural protocols |
| Cultural heritage - Protection - Museums and keeping places |
| Cultural heritage - Management |
| Cultural heritage - Repatriation |
| Death - Human remains |
| Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects |
| Human remains (Archaeology) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Australia |
| Museums -- Moral and ethical aspects |
| Human remains (Archaeology) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Australia |
| Museums -- Australia -- Moral and ethical aspects |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation |
| Australia |
| Other Corporate Bodies |
Museums Australia Inc |
| Call number |
AU NMA-114 |
| Internet Site |
Available online via Internet Archive website |
