Leicester Arts & Museums Service (LAMS) holds a large number of human remains within its collections. The Human Remains Policy sets out how these remains will be curated, cared for and used within Leicester Arts & Museums Service so that they are accorded due dignity and respect.
This document is part of LAMS’s continual improvement of its collections management processes. LAMS acknowledges the DCMS’s ‘Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums’ (2005) and this publication is used as a reference throughout.
In order to remain relevant this policy is currently being reviewed and similarly the collections of human remains will regularly be reviewed in to ensure that there are still demonstrable reasons for them being held by the Service.
