Margo,

A good reference for this is Shelley, Marjorie The Care and Handling
of Art Objects: Practices in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New
Haven, CT: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press,
2000.  The ISBN is 0-87099-318-6 and 0-300-08583-4.

Hope this is helpful,
Victoria

On 1/2/08, Margo Edwards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Does anyone have a written policy or rules and regulations for handling (or
> rather, not-handling) of objects in a historic house museum by the janitor
> and volunteer docents? We need to establish written rules for the janitor to
> use in cleaning the house and for volunteer docents to abide by when
> conducting tours.
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> Thanks,
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> Margo
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> Margo Edwards
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> Curator
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> Fort Lauderdale Historical Society
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> 219 S.W. 2nd Avenue
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> Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
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> 954.463.4431 x13
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> 954.523.6228 fax
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> www.oldfortlauderdale.org
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> The Fort Lauderdale Historical Society brings the history of greater Fort
> Lauderdale to life and preserves it for the enrichment of present and future
> generations.
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-- 
Victoria Kravitz

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier.
That is why Chippendale is famous.
--Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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