I will be chairing a session at the New England Museum Association's
annual meeting in Portland, ME on Friday, November 9. It is entitled:
Low-Tech Environmental Control: What’s
Real, What’s Fantasy, What’s Achievable. I will be
presenting on environmental monitoring basics, various low-tech control options,
and a few examples of successful implementation. I am looking for 2-3
presenters who can share their own successes or failures in implementing
low-tech environmental controls in a 5-minute or so presentation. The
session is technically in the form of a panel, so at the end you will also help
answer audience questions as is appropriate.
Low-tech is loosely defined as environmental control options that are
simple, effective and inexpensive. These include dehumidistatic control of
heat, room-within-a-room construction, centralized dehumidification, envelope
tightening procedures, and so forth that provide more stable relative humidity
conditions for collections. Please bring on your
unconventional issues or solutions, including the good old sleuthing
process to determine sources of problems! Don't worry about being polished
- this session is intended to discuss what's real, not ivory-tower. And,
failures also are sought, to help illustrate what does not work, or the
difficulty in choosing effective options. Ideally, you will have
monitoring results before and after, or some other method of verifying
improvement (or lack thereof).
In true museum conference fashion, your only reward will be fame, and the
assistance you will provide to your museum colleagues! Please email
me off-list if you are interested. Thanks so much!
Marc
American Conservation Consortium, Ltd.
4
Rockville Road
Broad Brook, CT
06016
www.conservator.com
860-386-6058
*Collections Preservation Consultation
*Conservation Assessments &
Surveys
*Environmental Monitoring & Low-Tech Control
*Moisture
Management Solutions
*Collections in Historic Structures
*Collections Care
Grant Preparation
*Conservation Treatment of:
Furniture
Painted Wood
Horse-Drawn Vehicles
Architectural Interiors
Marc A. Williams, President
MS in Art
Conservation, Winterthur Museum Program
Former Chief
Wooden Object Conservator, Smithsonian Institution
Fellow, American Institute for Conservation (AIC)
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