num_pages: 406
description: Preserve Protect and A Practical Guide to the Care of Collections is an essential text for museum professionals volunteers and consultants across a wide range of curators registrars collections managers archivists museum administrators museum educators conservators art historians operations staff designers engineers architects building contractors suppliers security specialists and pest control experts.The topics are wide conservation assessments; practical advice for examining collections and buildings to uncover collection safety issues; routine collection safety practices; preparing for the unexpected including wind and water penetration fire and smoke and infestations; and controlling the museum environment including temperature and relative humidity light and lighting and air quality.The book also offers an inside look into the world of museums and the people who work in them. Written in the accessibleand sometimes irreverentstyle that the author is famous for this book is a must-have for everyone who cares for collections and the buildings that house themmuseums of all sizes archives libraries and private collections.
language: English
title: Preserve, Protect, and Defend: A Practical Guide to the Care of Collections
publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform