Advances in the Protection of Museum Collections from Earthquake Damage
Subtitle: Papers from a Conference Held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, May 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 17, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780892369089
Subjects: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; Reference; Art / General; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Congresses; Conservation and restoration; Earthquake effects; Earthquake resistant design; Museum buildings
Description: "The book's essays examine the techniques applied to large collections and to small house museums, to exhibition cases containing objects as well as to monumental works of art and historical structures. Approaches range from securing and restraining objects to decoupling them from the ground through a variety of base-isolation mechanisms. These pioneering efforts have been developed in the face of significant challenges since, as any engineer, conservator, or mount maker who has undertaken this work can attest, a small sculpture can often be a far greater challenge to protect than a multistory building"--Publisher's description.