The museum environment

The Museum Environment is the first title in the Butterworth Series on Conservation in the Arts, Archaeology and Architecture. Part I of the book, intended for conservators and museum curators, describes the principles and techniques of controlling the environment so that the potentially damaging effects of light, humidity and air pollution on museum exhibits may be minimized. In Part II, the author, who is Scientific Advisor to the Trustees of the National Gallery in London and Head of its Scientific Department, brings together and summarizes information and data, hitherto widely scattered in the literature of diverse fields, which is essential to workers in conservation research. This series is published under the auspices of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC) and with the support of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, Rome (ICCROM).