Proceedings of the Objects Specialty Group Session
42nd Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California; May 28-31, 2014

Conscientious Conservation: Sustainable Choices in Collection Care

Edited by Suzanne Davis, Program Chair, with Emily Hamilton and Kari Dodson

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Program Chair’s Foreword
Suzanne Davis

Postprints abstracts

• Collaborative study and preservation of coastal Alaskan Native material culture with museum staff, Alutiiq scholars and artists, university students, and the visiting public
  T. Rose Holdcraft, Sven Haakanson, Ellen Promise, Judy Jungels, Fran Ritchie, and Patricia Capone

• Pine pitch: New treatment protocols for a brittle and crumbly conservation problem
  Nancy Odegaard, Marilen Pool, Christina Bisulca, Brunella Santarelli, Madeleine Neiman, and Gina Watkinson

• Conservation at 33 1/3 RPM: The treatment of an Attic trefoil oinochoe
  Anthony Sigel

• Restoration by other means: CT scanning and 3D computer modeling for the re-restoration of a previously restored skull from the Magdalenian Era
  J. P. Brown and Robert D. Martin

• Conserving stringed sculpture: The treatment of Henry Moore’s Mother and Child, 1939
  Nicole Ledoux

• Testing and implementation of microclimate storage containers
  Dana K. Senge

• Introduction to the Joint Objects + Research and Technical Studies Session Papers
  Ainslie Harrison

• Ultraviolet-induced visible fluorescence and chemical analysis as tools for examining featherwork
  Ellen Pearlstein, Melissa Hughs, Joy Mazurek, Kevin McGraw, Christel Pesme, Renée Riedler, and Molly Gleeson

• Coping with arsenic-based pesticides on textile collections
  Jae R. Anderson, Nancy Odegaard, Martina Dawley, Delana Joy Farley, and Werner Zimmt

• Red, blue, and wound all over: Evaluating condition change and cleaning of glass disease on beads
  Robin O’Hern and Kelly McHugh

• Technical study of the Bat Wing Ship (the Horten Ho 229 V3)
  Lauren Horelick, Malcolm Collum, Peter McElhinney, Anna Weiss, Russell Lee, and Odile Madden

• Animation cels: Conservation and storage issues
  Kristen McCormick, Michael R. Schilling, Miriam Truffa Giachet, Joy Mazurek, Herant Khanjian, and Tom Learner

• Managing construction-induced vibration in the museum environment
  Anna Serotta and Andrew Smyth

• Introduction to the Joint Objects + Architecture Session Papers
  Suzanne Davis

• Conservation of inscribed sandstone fragments at Luxor Temple in Egypt: Case study
  Hiroko Kariya

• The cultural production of tourism at Lake Tahoe: Exploring how cultural heritage preservation is impacted by tourism
  Catherine E. Magee

• Conservation realities and challenges at archaeological and historical sites in Colombia: Seeking success by considering the context
  María Paula Álvarez

• The development of treatment protocols at the Watts Towers Conservation Project
  Frank Preusser, Blanka Kielb, Sylvia Schweri-Dorsch, Christina Fisher, Mariana Ruiz, and Israel Campos

• The Columbus challenge
  Richard McCoy

• Preservation planning and Mid-Century Modern materials: Tools to promote strategic and sustainable building conservation
  Lacey Bubnash and Katie Horak