Los museos que poseen restos humanos para su salvaguardia deben adecuarse a un conjunto de normativas y recomendaciones de manejo. El Código de Deontología del Consejo Internacional de Museos (icom, por sus siglas en inglés) identifica estas piezas como materiales culturales delicados y tiene una serie de prescripciones al respecto. Bajo tal premisa, en este trabajo se presentan los procedimientos que se están adoptando para acondicionar legal y técnicamente los restos óseos de siete individuos que se encuentran en el Museo Etnográfico Municipal Dámaso Arce (MEDA) de Olavarría, en la República argentina. Actualmente este museo no está abierto al público y sus colecciones arqueológicas se encuentran en un depósito municipal. ____ 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 individuals that are located in the Museo Etnográfico Municipal Dámaso Arce (meda, for its initials in Spanish) of Olavarría, in Argentina. Currently this museum is not open to the public and its archaeological collections are stored in a municipal warehouse.
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