Environmental Management - Guidelines for Museums and Galleries

Zusatztext `This is an essential textbook for museum conservators, and their non-conservator colleagues would do well to have it close to hand.' - Museums Journal Informationen zum Autor May Cassar Klappentext 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. This work sets out clearly the theory and practice of achieving an appropriate museum environment for both collections and people. Zusammenfassung This book sets out the theory and practice of achieving an appropriate museum environment both for collections and people. It introduces principles and ideas on which to base decisions concerning the creation of the correct envrionment Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: May Cassar, Cassar May
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.11.2011
• EAN: 9780415514927
• ISBN: 978-0-415-51492-7
• No. of pages: 180
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology, environmental science, engineering & technology, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc