FAIC’s Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) and Conserv are partnering to help small and mid-sized museums manage their collection environments with confidence. What is the Small Collections Monitoring Program? We, at Conserv, developed the Small Collections...
An effective environmental monitoring program is about more than measuring the environment. There are many challenges that need to be overcome to properly protect a collection: Staff may not be available for full-time monitoring Storage locations may be many and far...
This guest blog features a summary of research by Allison Kelley, a graduate fellow studying preventive conservation at the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. For her research, Conserv provided access to their analytic tools and wireless...
When you work in a museum, archive, library, or gallery, you can count on spending a pretty significant amount of time away from your desk. Why wouldn’t you? Being able to spend time out in the collection is one of the best parts of working there! With the...
Let’s start with something controversial, environmental data collected from dataloggers or sensors is pretty useless by itself. What’s valuable is the ability to interpret the data and take some action to create environments that support the longevity of...
