Environmental Management : Guidelines for Museums and Galleries

ISBN-13: 9780415105590 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 180 str.

May Cassar;Cassar May

Opis

The key to the survival of museum collections is a stable indoor environment and vital to this is a well-maintained building with effective environmental services. Environmental Management Guidelines sets out the theory and practice of achieving an ideal museum environment for both collections and people. The book emphasizes the need for planning and places the environmental needs of museum collections at the forefront of the responsibilities of museum managers.

Recenzje

`This is an essential textbook for museum conservators, and their non-conservator colleagues would do well to have it close to hand.' - Museums Journal

Spis treści

Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Part I: The Principles of Museum Environmental Management 1. Managing Resources 2. Objects, People and Space 3. Developing an Environmental Strategy Part II: Managing and Monitoring the Built Environment 4. Weather, Buildings and Environmental Design 5. The Monitoring Programme Part III: Controlling the Display Environment 6. Controlling from the Centre: Building Management and Environmental Conditioning 7. Control where it's Needed: Room-based Environmental Systems 8. On the Spot: Local Control Part IV: Storage and Transportation: Managing Hidden Stresses 9. Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind 10. Transportation: The Moving Environment Datasheet 1: Record form, spot readings of light and ultraviolet radiation Datasheet 2: Record form, spot readings of relative humidiy and temperature Datasheet 3: Summary chart, weekly minimum and maximum RH, temperature and light readings over 12 months Datasheet 4: Lamp characteristics Select Bibliography Sources of Other Information Glossary Index

O autorze

May Cassar