Best Practices for Managing Federal Museum Collections

Section C. - Manage for the Long-Term

C-4 Know conservation treatment needs of objects in your Federal museum collections

The need for conservation treatments may be identified through formal inspections by professional conservators, or through the watchful attention of agency custodial officers. The links below provide contexts and directions to additional details.

Conservation Online
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/

Northeast Document Preservation Center
http://www.nedcc.org/selfsurvey/sec3b.htm

Montana Heritage Commission
http://www.montanaheritagecommission.com/PandISTRAT/ConservArtifacts.htm

Yale Peabody Museum
http://www.peabody.yale.edu/databases/cons/prevent.html

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/preserv/presfaq.html

Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu/scmre/takingcare/guidelines.htm

National Park Service (NPS)
http://www.nps.gov/hfc/products/cons/con-programs.htm
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/cons_toc.html

United States Department of the Interior (DOI)
http://www.doi.gov/museum/policy/pdf/mphi-10.pdf