Heritage, Museums & Everything

Generally preventive conservation is supposed as the safeguarding as well as increasing the age of collection by the use of different means and measures, before it starts deteriorating. It is well known that insects are the greatest threat for the museum collection specifically of biological origin. I focus on the dry stuff of biological origin for the preventive conservation in museum collections. Here dry stuff means wood, thick paper, hard leather, tough bark etc. Till date only chemicals are used for pest control yet but none of the instrument could be manufactured for the prevention of collection from the insects. Due to tremendous development in technology, in the coming future museums would be using more sophisticated and effective electronic instruments for better collection care, than present. No doubt, experiments done with gamma radiation give some hope but the results were not satisfactory. Main problem with the use of gamma radiation is that it has extreme of energy which ...

Theme: Recent Advances In Preventive Conservation of Musuem Collection The 40TH National Conference on the theme “Recent Advances and Preventive Conservation of Museum Collections”. Organized by the Department of Museology held at AMU in collaboration with Indian Association for the Study of Conservation of Cultural Property, New Delhi, National Museum, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India. In Conference Hall Administrative Block, AMU Aligarh from 5th-7th February 2008. Inaugural: Session 1st The inaugural function on 5th Feb, began with the welcome note by Prof. Absar Mustafa Khan, Dean Faculty of Life Sciences, AMU who welcomed and introduced the delegates about the different department and courses run by the University, the history of the Museology Department of the University and inspired the young scientists for hard work. Prof. M. V. Nair, President IASC in his introductory remark emphasized on the significance of Preservation and Conservation and distinguished between the right a...