Books for Conservators and Museum Professionals
Preserve, Protect, and Defend: A Practical Guide to the Care of Collections is an essential text for museum professionals, volunteers and consultants across a wide range of responsibilities: 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.
#House museum #Museology #Museum studies
“An important contribution to the field. [D]estined to be a classic!”
~ TDV, University Professor
“A must-have for any conservator or collections care professional!”
~ AR, Preservation Coordinator
Conservation Treatment Methodology presents a systematic approach to decision-making for conservation treatments. The methodology is applicable to all cultural property, independent of object type or material, and its use will enable conservators to be more confident in their treatment decisions.
#Historic preservation
Guide to Environmental Protection of Collections is for anyone who cares for or about collections of art, historical artifacts or any other kind of cultural material or for natural history collections. It is written for those with no technical background who find themselves having to make decisions concerning the physical care of those collections.
#Collections care
“A handy reference for the proper care of objects”
~ LB, Museum Curator