Caring for Your Collections

by National Committe to Save America's Cult and National Committee to Save America's Cultural Collections

Outlines the routine care and preventive maintenance of paintings, furniture, musical instruments, textiles, and other collectibles. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810931745
• ISBN13: 9780810931749
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.0" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Professional Help for the Private Collector

This book was assigned reading in the Museum Studies program I completed several years ago. I found it to be very readable and useful. It is geared to the person who is serious about preserving the treasures he or she has collected or inherited. Among its lessons is the fact that virtually everything we do to maintain our everyday household objects is not appropriate for objects that we would like to see survive for the long term. This book provides valuable guidance on what can be done to preserve the objects we value most. Today, I am a curator of a diverse museum collection, and still find this book helpful and a good refresher.

Excellent for museum professionals without experience

I'm purchasing my second copy of Caring for Your Collections. I am the curator of a house museum with a very diverse collection and I have found this to be a handy reference guide with easy to follow instructions for dealing with a wide variety of materials.