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The Importance of Museum Collections
Museum Collections
- The care and maintenance of cultural and natural collections is a major obligation of museums. Activities that preserve museum objects for the future are known collectively as conservation.
- All materials organic or inorganic degrade
- Museums have to establish preventive care measures, which provide optimum conditions to protect collections over time.
- All objects and specimens change over time because of physical or chemical deterioration and damage.
- Temperature, relative humidity, light, pollutants, and handling are the primary threats to museum objects of all kinds.
- Museums must provide adequate security, including protection against fire, theft, vandalism, and accident.
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