Research Catalog

Title

Pesticide mitigation in museum collections : science in conservation : proceedings from the MCI workshop series / edited by A. Elena Charola and Robert J. Koestler.

Author

Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute Workshop on Pesticide Mitigation (2007 : Washington, D.C.)

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Charola, A. Elena.
• Koestler, Robert J. (Robert John), 1950-
• Museum Conservation Institute.

Description

vi, 72 pages : color illustrations; 28 cm.

Summary

The Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute Workshop on Pesticide Mitigation was one of the first professional meetings dedicated to current research on removing pesticide residues from museum objects. Seven papers were presented at the workshop, and two more were added to introduce topics not focused on during the meeting but of significant importance when considering actual application of any of these methods. The aim of the workshop was to bring together conservators, scientists, and even industry representatives to discuss the complex issues associated with pesticide removal from artifacts and to provide representative examples of the research and work being carried out at different institutions in the United States and abroad. Among the issues explored were possible methods and techniques that might become useful in the museum conservation field to reduce, mitigate, clean, or remediate undesirable pesticides on objects. The meeting also served to inform conservators and scientists in the Smithsonian Institution of the wide range of approaches that are currently being tested and that might prove useful in the future. Topics covered in the presented papers included removal of mercury and arsenic contamination with?-lipoic acid; the treatment of Haudenosaunee medicine masks with surface active displacement solutions; the possibility of using mercury-resistant bacterial communities to remediate contamination; solvent extraction through the use of special solvents such as hydrofluoroethers; carbon dioxide as a cleaning fluid either in liquid or in supercritical state; and novel cleaning techniques either through the use of additives to improve the efficiency of liquid or supercritical CO2 cleaning, other gases in a supercritical state, or other techniques such as fluidized beds. The introduction of novel techniques at the workshop was encouraged in order to broaden the range of promising methods that might improve the technology of pesticide mitigation or remediation. The two supplemental papers discuss pesticide analysis on objects and safety measures that should be implemented by institutions with contaminated collections.

Series Statement

Smithsonian contributions to museum conservation, 1949-2359 ; no. 1

Uniform Title

Smithsonian contributions to museum conservation ; no. 1.

Subject

• Museum conservation methods > Congresses
• Decontamination (from gases, chemicals, etc.) > Congresses
• Cleaning > Congresses
• Museum buildings > Pest control > Congresses
• Museums > Collection management > Congresses
• Pesticides > Risk mitigation > Congresses
• Cleaning
• Decontamination (from gases, chemicals, etc.)
• Museum buildings > Pest control
• Museum conservation methods
• Museums > Collection management
• Pesticides > Risk mitigation
• Conservatie
• Biologische aspecten

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Papers from a workshop held April 23-24, 2007.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available as a PDF.

LCCN

2009048678

OCLC

• ocn482564618
• 482564618
• SCSB-1568751

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library