Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
Castle Street
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA3 8TP
01228618718
Website: http://www.tulliehouse.co.uk/
Parent Organisation:
Funded by:
Local Authority, NPO
YLM Entry Submitted: Yes
Comments:
Tullie is the largest museum in the county of Cumbria and the lead museum in the Cumbrian Museum Consortium. The museum holds approximately 1 million objects from collections across multiple disciplines including: Archaeology, Social History, Numismatics, a designated Natural Science collection, Fine and Decorative Art and Costume.
The archaeology collection includes: founding antiquarian collections, single finds, material from pre-professional excavations and professionally excavated material from the 1970s to the present day. The collecting area spans large areas of Cumbria and the Western side of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Hadrian’s Wall.
How many human remains are in its collection, and how many of those are of ancient British provenance, pre-Christian or in other way Pagan?:
There are Human Remains in the collection from the Bronze Age to the Medieval. The pre-professional excavated material is largely catalogued. There are excavated sites which form the majority of the backlog of the archaeology collection and these include Human Remains which are largely undocumented.
Total:
How many of these human remains are well documented, with clear context of date and place of exhumation?:
Not all documented to SPECTRUM 5.0 standards.
Where there are ancestors in store, is there a history of use?:
2 known PhD’s have utilised the Human Remains, one utilizing aDNA
Where there are ancestors in store, is there potential for use, in display, education or scientific analysis?
Yes – conditional on museum policies relating to Human Remains, Research and Use of Collections.
Does the museum have a disposal policy, and is it including HR with negligible potential in its discussions about disposal?:Yes
Our disposal process is general, however our Human Remains policy specifically references disposals of Human Remains are generally restricts this.
What sources of information about these human remains are in the public domain and where?:
All information is in the museum’s catalogues, which are available on request. Archaeological sites are generally published or available on the ADS. Where this is not available, paper archives and grey literature are available at the museum upon request. Pre-professional excavated material have generally been published via the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society which is hosted on the ADS.
Does the museum have ancestors (human remains) on display?:Yes
One skeleton displayed in full and interpreted as a “Roman murder victim” which was first displayed in the Roman Frontier Gallery 2012. The display includes the remains, a facial reconstruction and reconstructed “murder scene”. The display features in the “Tullie Top 10”.
During upcoming capital development projects this display may be removed in line with the updated Human Remains Policy.
Does the museum hold any iconic ancestors, ie. complete skeletons with a well documented story, or those considered of national or local importance, and are these on display?:
Yes, the “Roman murder victim”
Has the museum used or considered using replicas in displays? If not, why not and what would you find useful in moving to these? If you have, what response did these receive?:
Not used
Documents:
25 January, 2008
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