Research Catalog

Title

Advances in the protection of museum collections from earthquake damage : papers from a symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Villa on May 3- 4, 2006 / Jerry Podany, volume editor.

Publication

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Podany, Jerry.
• J. Paul Getty Museum

Description

viii, 208 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps; 28 cm.

Summary

"The book's essays examine the techniques applied to large collections and to small house museums, to exhibition cases containing objects as well as to monumental works of art and historical structures. Approaches range from securing and restraining objects to decoupling them from the ground through a variety of base-isolation mechanisms. These pioneering efforts have been developed in the face of significant challenges since, as any engineer, conservator, or mount maker who has undertaken this work can attest, a small sculpture can often be a far greater challenge to protect than a multistory building"--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Art > Conservation and restoration > Congresses
• Museum buildings > Earthquake effects > Congresses
• Earthquake resistant design > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The challenge -- New developments in seismology : the ground motion environment of the Los Angeles Region -- Seismic isolation and damping systems : improving earthquake performance of buildings -- Developments in seismic protection of historic structures -- Seismic protection of museums and museum collections in India -- Seismic mount making : a review of the protection of objects in the J. Paul Getty Museum from earthquake damage -- Finalizing the design of seismic isolators for the antiquities collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum -- The seismic isolation of Rodin's The gates of Hell -- Seismic risk mitigation in Istanbul museums -- Seismic mitigation at the Asian Art Museum -- Case study : a review of seismic mitigation efforts for museums in Greece -- Seismic isolation system for the Statue of Hermes at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia -- Earthquake mitigation at the Seattle Art Museum -- Case studies : the conservator's role in seismic mitigation of artwork at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art -- Earthquake protection of historic house collections in California State Parks -- Protecting temporary exhibitions from earthquakes : Jean-Antoine Houdon : sculptor of the Enlightenment -- Performance expectations for microcrystalline waxes for the seismic protection of art objects -- Case study : low-budget seismic mitigation methods for a museum in Ithaca.

ISBN

• 9780892369089 (pbk.)
• 0892369086 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007047370

OCLC

• 181730624
• SCSB-10348183

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library