ABSTRACT

This article explores what repair might mean in the context of enduring toxic legacies of past museum practice. For centuries, museums have applied a wide range of pesticidal and preservative chemicals on objects to prevent insect infestation and material decay. This paper theorizes such chemicals as a significant museum technology which aided the perpetuation of museum objects, and both responded to and facilitated further growth of colonial collections in European museums. The case study examines both past practices of pesticide treatment in ethnographic museums and their effects on the repatriation of Sámi cultural artefacts today.

中文翻译：

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污染与持久性：有毒世界中的博物馆修复

摘要

本文探讨了在过去博物馆实践的持久有毒遗产的背景下修复可能意味着什么。几个世纪以来，博物馆在物品上使用了多种杀虫剂和防腐剂，以防止虫害和材料腐烂。本文将此类化学品理论化为一种重要的博物馆技术，它有助于博物馆物品的永久保存，并且既响应又促进了欧洲博物馆中殖民地收藏的进一步增长。该案例研究考察了民族志博物馆过去的杀虫剂处理做法及其对当今萨米文化文物归还的影响。