IIC 1994 Ottawa Congress

Learning from the history of preventive conservation

Manfred Koller

A systematic approach to preservation: description and integration with other museums activities

Stefan Michalski

Conservation risk assessment: a strategy for managing resources for preventive conservation

Robert Waller

National support as a key to preventive conservation

Lawrence Reger and Carolyn Rose

Working with design professionals: preventive conservators as problem solvers, not problem creators

Murray Frost

Preventive conservation and restoration: a matter of costs

Eugenio La Rocca and Roberto Nardi

Let’s be honest – realistic environmental parameters for loaned objects

Jonathan Ashley-Smith, Nick Umney and David Ford

Relative humidity re-examined

David Erhardt and Marion Mecklenburg

Hygrometric measurement in museums: calibration, accuracy, and the specification of relative humidity

Jonathan P. Brown

Preventive conservation at the Field Museum

Catherine Sease and Catherine Anderson

Moving the collections at the Royal British Columbia Museum

Valerie Thorp and Colleen Wilson

Preserving conceptual integrity: ethics and theory in preventive conservation

Miriam Clavir

Traditional care and conservation, the merging of two disciplines at the National Museum of the American Indian

Ann Drumheller and Marian Kaminitz

PREMA: a conservation strategy for African collections

R.L. Barclay and C. Antomarchi

Preventive conservation within conservation training programmes

Chris Caple

A methodology of preventive conservation for a large, expanding and mixed archaeological collection

Diane Dollery

Control of climate for rock-cliff sculptures against frost shattering, mold growth and salt efflorescence

Sadatoshi Miura

Preventive strategies for reducing the impact of visitors on the microenvironment of caves at the Mogao Grottoes

Shin Maekawa

The conservation of the Cueva de Altamira

J.A. Herraez, M.A. Rodriguez and E. de Alvaro

Direct measurements to determine sandstone deterioration

Andrew Thorn

Preventing salt damage in porous materials

Clifford Price and Peter Brimblecombe

The wall paintings of Gundsømagle church, Denmark

Tim Padfield, Peder Bøllingtoft, Bent Eshøj and Mads Chr. Christensen

Mediaeval wooden churches in a cold climate – parish churches or museums?

Tone M. Olstad

Ambient atmospheric conditions as a significant factor in the conservation of an altarpiece by Konrad von Soest in its original location

Jürgen P. Legrum

Preventive conservation of stained glass windows

J.M. Bettembourg

The preservation of historic houses and sites: the interface of architectural restoration and collection/display conservation principles

Nathan Stolow

Appropriate technologies for relative humidity control for museum collections housed in historic buildings

Sarah Staniforth, Bob Hayes and Linda Bullock

Insect trapping in museums and historic houses

R.E. Child and D.B. Pinniger

The impact of overvisiting: methods of assessing the sustainable capacity of historic houses

Helen Lloyd and Tim Mullany

The Ruskin Library: architecture and environment for the storage, display and study of a collection

Richard MacCormac and Michael Popper

Comparative study of air-conditioned and non air-conditioned museums

T. Oreszczyn, M. Cassar and K. Fernandez

Moisture, ventilation and mould growth

Graeme Scott

New storage facility for the National Museum of Science and Industry

Gina Laurin and Peter Scott

Cultural property environmental monitoring

Graham Martin and Nigel Blades

Pollution monitoring in storage and display cabinets: carbonyl pollutant levels in relation to artifact deterioration

Cecily M. Grzywacz and Norman H. Tennent

The environmental performance of display cases

May Cassar and Graham Martin

Passive monitoring for museum showcase pollutants

Barry Knight

Oxygen-free storage using Ageless oxygen absorber

Mark Gilberg and David Grattan

Performance of wooden storage cases in regulation of relative humidity change

Nobuyuki Kamba

The transport of paintings in microclimate display cases

Mervin Richard

Wavelength-dependent fading of artists’ pigments

David Saunders and Jo Kirby

Air pollution effects of library microforms

Edward Zinn, James M. Reilly, Peter Z. Adelstein and Douglas W. Nishimura

Surveying large collections of photographs for archival survival

Jesper Stub Johnsen

Evaluation of storage and display conditions for cellulose nitrate objects

Michele Derrick, Vinod Daniel and Andrew Parker

MicroChamber papers used as a preventive conservation material

William K. Hollinger Jr

Study of the homogeneity of mass deacidification treatments using atomic absorption spectrometry

F. Daniel, F. Flieder, F. Juchauld and C. Yver

The applicability of alkaline reserves to painting canvases

Stephen Hackney and Torben Ernst

The role of costume mounting in preventive conservation

Sarah White

The development of an earthquake-safe mounting system for a collection of Ancient Greek vases

Z. Barov, C. Faber and R. Sennet

French abstracts