Background

Policy

Guidance

Frequently Asked Questions

Case Studies

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These pages are designed to guide UCL staff and students in dealing with cultural property.

Cultural property is broadly defined as ‘individual objects, collections, specimens, structures or sites identified as having artistic, historic, scientific, religious or social significance’.

A more detailed definition is here (... more)

Triassic period reptile footprint in the UCL Geology Collection (more ...)	Lamprey in the UCL Grant Museum of Zoology (more ...)	Tarkhan dress (about 3000-2300 BC) in thw UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptology (more ...)	Early books in UCL Library Services Special Collections (more ...)	Ceramic figurine from Mexico in the UCL Archaeology Collections (more ...)

Listen to the UCL podcasts, Cultural property – an ethical resource for study and enjoyment
(first transmitted in September 2009). Now f reely available on-line ... find out more ...

In this series of audio podcasts, four UCL staff give their perspective on the UCL Cultural Property policy and explain why it matters so much:

Kathy Tubb, Institute of Archaeology (more ...)
Dr Joe Cain, Science and Technology Studies (more ...)
Dr Mechthild Fend, History of Art (more ...)
Dr Andrew Flinn, Information Studies (more ...)

View the podcast of presentations from the Cultural Property conference, held at UCL in September 2009. Also available in a separate window (more ...), or via UCL ITunes (more ...).

 

This page last modified 16 December, 2009 by UCL Cultural Property