Confronting contemporary issues in museum practice, this collection provides a practical guide to all aspects of collections care.

Contributors cover a wide range of issues including:

• conservation practice
• the monitoring and control of light
• relative humidity and atmospheric pollution
• packing, handling and transportation of collections
• storage and access to collections
• biological infestation
• disaster planning.

Including material and sources that have, up until now, not easily been available,...

Museums in the Material World seeks to both introduce classic and thought-provoking pieces and contrast them with articles which reveal grounded practice. The articles are selected from across the full breadth of museum disciplines and are linked by a logical narrative, as detailed in the section introductions.

The choice of articles reveals how the debate has opened up on disciplinary practice, how the practices of the past have been critiqued and in some cases replaced, how it has become necessary to look beyond and outside...