I know this question has been discussed on the list before, but I suspect not in this form, so I hope I can impose on list members for some advice for a friend of mine who lives in Vermont and is working at the moment for the Vermont State Fair, which opens shortly.  The Fair has, as a part of its exhibits, a museum of agricultural and domestic equipment, and my friend is helping to get it ready.

However, she has run into a huge problem:  mold on everything (it has been a wet summer in Vermont, and the building evidently has no climate control)!  She asked me what to do, as she looked online and the CCI Bulletins cost money, and she couldn't find the NPS bulletins.  Here's her message to me:

I am in the process of opening up the museum at the fairgrounds and I have uncovered a lot of mold.  It has been really wet here this summer and the mold seems to be on about every type of artifacts, wood, metal, glass, leather, felt you name it and there seems to be mold.  There is no way for me to control the humidity in the building.  Do I just wipe off the mold with a rag or a dust cloth and put the item in the sun?  Should I then burn the rags or wash the dust cloth?    I tried to find something on line but the CCI tech. bulletins cost money and I couldn't find the ones from NPS.  Any suggestions I would greatly appreciate.

I have already told her to get a mask or a respirator, but I didn't know what else to tell her about how best to remove the mold, since there are such a variety of materials, and there is really not a lot of time to do anything but triage, I think.

My thanks to all list members in advance for their help.

Martha Katz-Hyman