Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage
Channel: AIC & FAIC
Date: 2021-10-22

How do we convey that we aren’t just storing our stuff? How do we promote respectful and careful access to our collections while ensuring long-term preservation? Good storage is the foundation of effective collection care and plays a key role in advancing conservation while promoting accessibility and use of collections among all stakeholders.

Listen to subject experts presenting key insights centered around the main sections of the newly published Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage. Topics include: Fundamentals of Collection Storage, Assessment and Planning, Creating and Renovating Storage Facilities, Facility Management, Specialized Collection Environments and Care, Storage Equipment and Materials and Storage at a Glance. As in the book, talks focus on a range of collections including science, fine and decorative art, history, library, and archives from a risk-management perspective.