Conservation concerns : a guide for collectors and curators / Konstanze Bachmann, editor.

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Descriptive Terms

Museum conservation methods.
Museum techniques
Museum conservation methods

Originator

Bachmann, Konstanze.
Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

Contents

Principles of storage / Konstanze Bachmann, Rebecca Anne Rushfield -- Emergency planning / Mary W. Ballard -- Control of temperature and humidity in small collections / Ann Brooke Craddock -- Construction materials for storage and exhibition / Ann Brooke Craddock -- Storage of works on paper / Marjorie Shelley -- Warning signs : when works on paper require conservation / Marjorie Shelley -- Storage and care of photographs / Klaus B. Hendriks -- Warning signs : when photographs need conservation / Klaus B. Hendriks -- The preservation and storage of sound recordings / Klaus B. Hendriks -- Painting storage : a basic guideline / Kenneth S. Moser -- When is it time to call a paintings conservator? / Charles von Nostitz -- Storage of historic fabrics and costumes / Christine Giuntini -- Textile conservation / Patsy Orlofsky -- Warning signs : when textiles need conservation / Lucy A. Commoner -- Storage containers for textile collections / Lucy A. Commoner -- Storage of stone, ceramic, glass, and metal / Lynda A. Zycherman.
The care and conservation of metal artifacts / Elayne Grossbard -- Furniture conservation / Susan Klim -- Upholstery conservation / Kathryn Gill -- Preserving ethnographic objects / Carolyn L. Rose -- Care of folk art : the decorative surface / Valerie Reich Hunt -- Composite objects : materials and storage conditions / Valerie Reich Hunt.

Publication

New York : Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution ;
Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press

Description

ix, 149 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-149).

ISBN

1560981741 (alk. paper)

Call Number

Reg. AM141.C65 1992

Material Type

Handbooks, manuals, etc.