Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of life and how work is accomplished. Travel restrictions and health concerns have hindered courier trips, making virtual condition reports and deinstallations necessary to retrieve loans. However, transmission pathways of the virus and the related viral attenuation on different materials and surfaces influence employee safety concerns when multiple people interact with surfaces, requiring quarantine periods or disinfection guidelines to be written to address these concerns. This paper illustrates how the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) worked together virtually to safely return an important 1933 map to the US from England using quarantine periods.
Highlights
The map, United States System of Highways, 1933 annotated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in blue pencil [National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) Identifier 84786150 RG 30, Bureau of Public Roads, 1949–1967], was loaned to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in November 2019 for the exhibition “Cars: Accelerating the Modern World” (Figure 1)
In typical outgoing loan procedure, the map was reviewed by National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) conservation and received minor treatment, including encapsulation in polyester
A NARA conservator, who acted as courier, monitored the inspection by TSA and accompanied shipment to the V&A
Summary
The map, United States System of Highways, 1933 annotated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in blue pencil [National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) Identifier 84786150 RG 30, Bureau of Public Roads, 1949–1967], was loaned to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in November 2019 for the exhibition “Cars: Accelerating the Modern World” (Figure 1). In typical outgoing loan procedure, the map was reviewed by NARA conservation and received minor treatment, including encapsulation in polyester. V&A staff worked diligently, providing NARA’s conservator a live stream to virtually attend this pandemic-mandated compromise to normal courier policy.
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