New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 4 - CULTURAL RESOURCES
Chapter 51 - MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO
Part 11 - POLICY ON COLLECTION, DISPLAY AND REPATRIATION OF CULTURALLY SENSITIVE MATERIALS
Section 4.51.11.10 - REPATRIATION OF CULTURALLY SENSITIVE MATERIALS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. On a case-by-case basis, the museum shall seek guidance from recognized, concerned parties regarding the identification, proper care, and possible disposition of culturally sensitive materials.
B. Negotiations concerning culturally sensitive materials shall be conducted with professional discretion. Collaboration and openness with concerned parties are the goals of these dialogues, not publicity. If concerned parties desire publicity, then it will be carried out in collaboration with them.
C. The museum shall have the final responsibility of making a determination of culturally sensitive materials subject to the appeal process as outlined under Section VII A. [now Subsection A of 4.51.11.12 NMAC]
D. The museum of New Mexico accepts repatriation as one of several appropriate actions for culturally sensitive materials only if such a course of action results from consultation with designated concerned parties as described in Section III of this policy [now 4.51.11.8 NMAC].
E. The museum may accept or hold culturally sensitive materials for inclusion in its permanent collections.
F. The museum may temporarily accept culturally sensitive materials to assist efforts to repatriate them to the proper concerned party.
G. To initiate repatriation of culturally sensitive materials, the museum of New Mexico's current deaccession policy shall be followed. The curator working with the concerned party shall complete all preparations for deaccession through the museum collections committee and director before negotiations begin.
H. Repatriation negotiations may also result in, but are not limited to, the retention of objects with no restrictions on use, care, and/or exhibition; the retention of objects with restrictions on use, care and/or exhibition; the lending of objects either permanently or temporarily for use to a community; and the holding in trust of culturally sensitive materials for the concerned party.
I. When repatriation of culturally sensitive materials occurs, the museum reserves the right to retain associated museum records but shall consider each request for such records on an individual basis.
