Abstract
Museums stored a number of objects which shows our cultural and natural heritage. These heritage materials are rich source of educative materials and are organic in nature. After a passage of time these collection become deteriorate due to some agencies. Organic objects are of immense importance, that’s why their protection and preservation are very necessary. In this article the author summarizes different agencies of deterioration and their preventive conservation treatment.
Highlights
The history of museum is as old as our civilization
After a long perod of time the museum collection shows some problems in the form of deterioration, these problems are caused by external agencies
Deterioration is caused in organic materials by Temperature, Humidity, Light, Atmospheric pollution
Summary
Different specialized museums stored organic objects of their own importance These collections are showing a depict of our cultural and natural heritage of our country. The author discussed different agents which deterioration of the organic materials like paper, parchment, manuscripts, herbarium, textiles and natural history specimens etc. These collections are rich source of information for present and future generation. After a long perod of time the museum collection shows some problems in the form of deterioration, these problems are caused by external agencies. To control these problems different preventive conservation methods were applied. Due to its immense importance the primary goal of the conservator is to safeguarding of the aesthetic, historical, structural and material integrity of the object. (E.C.C.O. 2002 [1])
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