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Collections management

The Collections Management Team works across the many fundamental and diverse areas of collections management and collections care. The team is responsible for our collections care and conservation programme, object transportation, storage, documentation, legal compliance, collections policies and procedures, and loans.

Additionally, we manage our flagship teaching space, the Object Based Learning Lab, and we set the standards for cultural property management across UCL and ensure compliance with Museum Accreditation, SPECTRUM requirements, and both ethical and national and international legal requirements (e.g. CITES and Human Tissue Act).

Find out more about how we manage the collections:

Close up of researcher studying Egyptian pots

Care and conservation

Our care and conservation team offers advice and dedicated care for the objects within our museums and collections.

Visitor looking at a Litho block, Testing Ground exhibit

Borrowing objects from our collections

We encourage borrowing from our collections in order to make our wonderful resources available to a wider audience.

Selection of Shabti dolls from the Petrie Museum

Developing our collections

We are always looking for ways to develop our collections and keep them relevant to our users.

Two people examining a piece of an animal skull

Object based learning

We support object based learning within the curriculum at UCL and collaborate on research into its value.

A heart showing pulmonary embolism

Working with human remains

UCL owns and displays human remains for the core purpose of learning and research.

Person holding and examining a ceramic pot in the Petrie Museum

Destructive and non-destructive analysis requests

How to request access to collection material for destructive and non-destructive analysis and research.