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Planning for a Sustainable Cultural Heritage Sector in a New Age Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 David Prince,Daniel Laven,Steven Lawson
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Key Lessons in Adapting Interactive Experiences for a COVID-Safe Museum Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Kate Smith,Claire Chakrabarti,Sunny Sanderson,Rebekah Collins,Amy Boulding
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced museum communities around the world to rapidly re-examine their approach to safe visitor engagement. In an atmosphere of uncertainty, increased attention to hygiene and social distancing, the following is a reflection by SparkLab Sciencentre in the Queensland Museum, Australia, two months after reopening. It highlights the key lessons learnt and strategies adopted,
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Let’s Imagine a New Museum Staff Structure Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Martina Tanga
Facing multiple unprecedented calamities throughout 2020—a global pandemic, economic upheaval, social turmoil, and climate crisis—museums shuttered, decimated their staff, and gutted their organizational structures. Now, they seem to struggle to maintain outward relevance in these bleak and uncertain times. What if, instead of being reactive, museums are proactive; instead of being defensive, they
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The Response of the British Library’s Conservation Department to the COVID-19 Situation Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Paul Garside,Sarah Hamlyn,Cordelia Rogerson,Emily Watts,Mark Browne,Colm Derenzy
The British Library’s conservation department faced a significant range of challenges arising from the COVID-19 situation and the limited time available to respond to them. By drawing on areas in which the department already had particular strengths, such as risk management, salvage planning and training, we were able to address these issues and support the operational requirements not only of our
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Culture, Corona, Crisis: Best Practices and the Future of Dutch Museums Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Liselore N. M. Tissen
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Threat or Opportunity for Blind and Partially Sighted Museum Visitors? Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Rafie R. Cecilia
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is having a severe impact on museums and the cultural sector New social distancing rules one-way navigation systems, and hand sanitising regulations are affecting the embodied practice of visitors inside the museum These changes potentially pose a threat to the experience of disabled people, in particular blind and partially sighted visitors, as they create new barriers
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Disinfection of Contaminated Heritage Surfaces from SARS-CoV-2 Virus Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Philip Skipper,Claire Fry,Clara Willett
For the heritage sector the global pandemic has introduced unique challenges; with infectious viral particles persisting on some surfaces for days, people must be protected from objects as much as the objects need to be protected from people. Until recently information on persistence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (which causes COVID-19) on different materials has been dispersed through the scientific literature
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Virtual Deinstallation During the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Jennifer K. Herrmann,Dong Eun Kim
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of life and how work is accomplished. Travel restrictions and health concerns have hindered courier trips, making virtual condition reports and deinstallations necessary to retrieve loans. However, transmission pathways of the virus and the related viral attenuation on different materials and surfaces influence employee safety concerns when multiple people
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Whale Bone Puzzles: Reconstructing and Identifying Historical Whale Skeletons Using Archive Records, Osteology, and Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Antoine Wagner, Kristine Korzow Richter, Elisabeth Ludes, Rose-Marie Arbogast, David Carita, Aurélie Guidez, Samba Soussoko, Nicole Boivin, Jean-Christophe Marche, Marie-Dominique Wandhammer, Marie Meister
Museum collections not only provide educational tools for the public, but also reference material for osteological research and baseline information for understanding historical population dynamics and food webs. Such applications are only possible, however, with accurate identifications of museum osteological specimens, which is sometimes challenging, as specimens can be separated from their original
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‘…Threat and Opportunity to Be Found in the Disintegrating World.’ (O’Hara 2003, 71) – The Potential for Transformative Museum Experiences in the Post-Covid Era Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 John David Bull
This short article aims to draw from Transformational Education Theory to highlight an opportunity for museums to contribute actively to individual and societal change through the delivery of transformational experiences. This paper advocates for intentional practice, inspired by Theory, with a clear purpose aimed at changing mind-sets and suggests a mechanism for creating these experiences. This sense
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Re-Opening after COVID-19 in New Zealand Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Craig Grant,Ian Griffin,Michelle McConnell,Miguel Quiñones-Mateu,Daniel Schumayer,David Hutchinson
New Zealand (NZ) opted for complete suppression of the spread of COVID-19. We summarise how the rules, introduced by the NZ government, affected the operation and staffing of the biggest regional museum and science centre, the Otago Museum.
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Pacific Barkcloth Under the Microscope – Characterisation of Condition, Decoration and Structure Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Margaret J. Smith, Aisling Macken
The creation of barkcloth begins with harvesting the inner bark of certain types of trees followed by soaking and beating with grooved beaters, a process which often leaves undulations on the surface of the bark, also known as the beater mark. The cloth can then be decorated using colorants, applied as particulate pigments, dyes or paints. The resulting material is highly ornate with varying surface
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Using Museum Audio Guides in the Construction of Prosthetic Memory Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2019-09-19 Laura Bertens, Sara Polak
The intimacy and affective impact of the audio guide – and the spoken voice – could make it a suitable medium to represent and construct cultural memory. Research on the relevance of the audio guide in the context of cultural memory has, to the best of our knowledge, not yet been conducted. This article will address this by presenting experimental findings on the impact of two custom-made audio guides
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The Seashells of an Iconic Public Artwork: Diversity and Provenance of the Mollusks of the Watts Towers Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2019-01-14 Bruno Pernet, Emma R. Silverman, Paul Valentich Scott
The Watts Towers (WT), an iconic Los Angeles artwork created by Sabato Rodia in 1921–1954, is covered with mosaics whose elements include thousands of mollusk shells. Little is known about the diversity or sources of these shells. Here, we document the diversity of mollusk shells present in the WT and use data on their characteristics to make inferences about their provenance. We identified shells
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Conservation of Anthracotherium magnum fossils from Chiuppano, Italy Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Elena Ghezzo, Paolo Reggiani
Lignite deposits are characterized by a high probability of fossil preservation along with a high concentration of pyrite minerals. When fossils are discovered, exposure to the humidity and oxygen in the air begins a destabilization of the minerals and activation of chemical oxidation. In the last century, it was common practice to protect fossils by covering them with unspecified commercial varnish
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Predicting Future Condition and Conservation Costs from Modelling Improvements to the Indoor Environment: The Monumental Munch-Paintings in the University of Oslo’s Aula Assembly Hall Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Terje Grøntoft, Lena Porsmo Stoveland, Tine Frøysaker
The aim of this work was to assess how improvements to the indoor environment could affect the future condition, frequency and costs of major conservation-cleaning campaigns on the monumental paintings (1909–1916) by Edvard Munch, centrally located in the Aula assembly hall of the University of Oslo. A lower soiling rate is expected to reduce the need for frequent and major cleaning campaigns. Estimations
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A Brief Insight Into the Secrets of the 120-Year-Old Main Curtain of the National Theatre of Costa Rica Through Non-Destructive Characterization Techniques Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Juan G. Morice, Juliana Benavides-Rodríguez, Geraldine Conejo-Barboza, Carmen Marín, Mavis L. Montero, O. A. Herrera-Sancho
This article features the preliminary characterization of thirty different-colored samples. The scrutinized fragments were taken from the 120-year-old main curtain from the National Theater of Costa Rica. Results from scanning electron microscopy (SEM) shed light on the textiles used, evidencing the presence of cotton in the reinforcement fabric and linen in the curtain itself. The infrared spectroscopy
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“I Should Probably Know More:” Reasons for and Roadblocks to the Use of Historic University Collections in Teaching Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Sara Marcketti, Jennifer F. Gordon
Collections of dress and textiles can make subjects such as history come to life. However previous studies have shown that many collections are underutilized within university settings. The purpose of this paper is to examine contributing and detracting factors for use. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with curators and collection managers (n = 15) at twelve institutions. Respondents
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Managing Small Radioactive Collections in the UK: Experiences from the Polar Museum, Cambridge Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2018-11-14 Sophie Rowe
Many collections in the UK include some radioactive objects, which must be managed in accordance with the Environmental Permitting Regulations and the Ionising Radiation Regulations. These laws are complex and cover a wide range of industries so it can be difficult to work out how they apply to museums in practice. Museums in the UK also have to consider how to integrate their legal obligations for
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‘Islamic Art Curation in Perspective: A Comparison with East Asian Models through the Case of the Leeum Samsung Museum’ Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Valerie Gonzalez
With the development of a global museum culture since the eighties, called ‘curationism’ by David Balzer, the question of how to show ancient art both in newly founded institutions and in refurbished historic displays, is more than ever relevant. As much as contemporary art, artistic heritage participates in the new cultural discourse defining nations and communities, channelled through world-class
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Detecting Chloride Contamination of Objects and Buildings – Evaluating a New Testing Process Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Lynda Skipper, Naomi Aliza Rubinstein
Soluble salts play a key factor in damage to a variety of materials, including stone, ceramics and metals. Particularly, salt contamination can lead to weakening of porous materials through salt crystallisation events, and increases the rate of metal corrosion. Over time, this results in physical damage to affected objects and buildings. It is therefore important to be able to monitor the salt content
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Conservation and Analysis on a Shoestring: Displaying Gut Parkas at the Polar Museum, Cambridge Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Sophie Rowe, Flavia Ravaioli, Catherine Tully, Megan Narvey
This paper presents a low-cost conservation project from the Polar Museum, Cambridge, in which two Inuit gut parkas from the museum’s collection were prepared for display and analysed to identify their material components. The project relied on cultivating professional networks and adapting inexpensive mounting methods to get maximum value from a very small budget. The parkas were analysed with a range
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Presentation of Qatari Identity at National Museum of Qatar: Between Imagination and Reality Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Mariam I. Al-Hammadi
This article discusses the proposal of the presentation of a single homogenous identity at the new National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ), due to open in 2019, presenting a discussion of Qatari identity and the historical factors that create such an identity. The article raises a series of questions for the theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of presentation of the Qatari identity, such
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Why Collect Science? Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Samuel J M M Alberti
In this critical assessment of the ‘museology of science’ I cherry-pick recent scholarship and practice to unpack the functions of science collections. Some practices (exhibition, engagement, study) have already attracted considerable attention, others not yet (storage); but all tend to be considered separately as case studies from particular institutions and for particular disciplinary audiences.
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In Pursuit of an Impact: Local Outreach and Investment in the Context of the Watts Towers Conservation Project Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2016-09-30 Sylvia Schweri
The Watts Towers, a US National Historic Landmark in Los Angeles, are a work of art created by Italian immigrant Sabato (also known as Simon) Rodia (1879–1965) between 1921 and 1954. Since 2011 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has worked to formulate a preservation and maintenance protocol for the Towers and has provided daily preservation maintenance. The Towers hold important value for
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The Caryatids in the New Acropolis Museum: Out of Sight, Out of Light, Out of Mind Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Pub Date : 2016-07-12 James M Beresford
This paper argues that the display of the iconic Caryatids in the New Acropolis Museum has been seriously compromised by the overriding desire amongst Greek politicians and heritage professionals to use the museum to reinforce their long-standing request for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. In designing a museum geared primarily to achieving the repatriation of the sculptures taken from the largest