Preventive Conservation in Museums makes available and
comprehensible the diverse literature and ideas of preventive
conservation 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 years and has adopted a far more holistic approach. The
development of the concepts of risk analysis, management of
conservation and how preventative conservation relates to the
importance of traditional beliefs and approaches to artefacts have
all made an impact on the subject in recent years along with the
advance of instrumentation over the last thirty years. The next
generation of ideas that will affect preventive conservation
practice are just starting to emerge, including: detailed modelling
of the environments of buildings and the sustainability of the
artefactual and building heritage.
Preventive Conservation in Museums highlights the wide variety
of threats, develops the concept of an holistic appreciation of
these threats, and too 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 people 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.
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