Preventive Conservation in Museums -

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Résumé :
Preventive Conservation in Museums makes available and comprehensible the diverse literature and ideas of preventive on to an audience with a limited scientific background, principally those studying museum studies or engaged in the museum profession. It bridges the gap between the basic museum-generated literature and technical and detailed conservation literature. The area of preventative conservation has developed greatly in recent decades adopting a far more holistic, collection wide approach. The development of the concepts of risk analysis, management of conservation and sensitivity to traditional beliefs and approaches to artefacts have all made an impact on the subject in recent years. The advance of instrumentation over the last thirty years has changed the emphasis from obtaining data on the museum environment to interpreting them. The next generation of ideas that will affect preventive conservation prat is just starting to emerge, including detailed modelling of the environments of buildings and the sustainability of the artefactual and building heritage and an emphasis on preservation in situ. Preventive Conservation in Museums highlights the wide variety of threats to the storage and display of objects in museums, it develops the concept of a holistic appreciation of these threats, and appreciates the need to prioritise the appropriate forms of response. It uses a careful balance of sources, some technical, some theoretical, some practical, as well as case studies to explore threats and their mitigation. For all those involved in preventive conservation, be they students or professionals, this volume will be an invaluable summary of the past, present and future of the discipline.

Biographie:
Chris Caple is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University.

Sommaire:
Part I: Holistic Approach to Preventive Conservation Part II: Agents of Deterioration II.1 Physical forces (handling, moving) and Security II.2 Fire & Water (disaster) II.3 Pests II.4 Contaminants (gasses, dust) II.5 Radiation (light) II.6 Temperature & Relative Humidity Part III: Managing Preventive Conservation III.1 Environmental Management III.2 Ethical Considerations III.3 All Together Now III.4 Preventive Conservation: The Future