V A Museum

All the unstable objects identified in surveys at the V A Museum and British Museum contain cellulose nitrate, cellulose acetate, plasticized poly (vinyl chloride) (PVC) or polyuretliane foams. The particular instability of these four plastics has also been recognized in surveys of other large collections including ones at the National Museum of Denmark and the National Museum of... 

Condition V A Museum (4500 plastics objects) British Museum (3032 plastics objects)... 

V A Museum/Royal College of Art (2007). MA in Conservation Post-Graduate Training and Research [online]. Available from http //www.vam.ac.uk/school stdnts/stdnts lectur-ers/rca va courses/index.html [Accessed 2 August 2007]. 

Wagner, W. L., Herbst, D. R. and Sohmer, S. H. 1990,1999. Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai i. Vols. 1 and 2. University of Hawai i Press and Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. -------and Funk, V. A. (eds.) 1995. Hawaiian Biogeography Evolution on a Hot Spot Archipelago., Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 

Costa V (2003) Museum s air quality in a tropical climate evaluation by using metaUic coupons, 5th Indoor Air Quality Meeting, Norwich (United Kingdom) http //iaq.dk/iap/ iaq2003/2003.13.htm... 

The V A remained at Westwood for several years after the departure of the British Museum and, by 1954, concern was expressed that over 2,000,000 worth of artefacts were still stored in the quarry. The repository was finally vacated in 1957, although maintenance was continued well into the 1960s. Considering the incalculable value of the material interred in the quarry, security staff was modest, consisting of a Keeper or Deputy Assistant, with one warder by day, and one warder accompanied by one Wiltshire Police Constable at night. 

Then, E. and Oakley, V. (1993). A survey of plastic objects at the Victoria and Albert Museum. V A Conservation fournal, 6, 11-14. 

Thickett D, Lee NJ, Bradley SM (2000) Assessment of the performance of silane treatments applied to Egyptian limestone sculptures displayed in a museum environment. In Fassina V (ed) Proceedings of 9th international congress on deterioration and conservation of stone, Venice, Vol 2, 19-24 June. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, pp 503-511 Toniolo L, Poll T, Castelvetro V, Manariti A, Chiantore O, Lazzari M (2002) Tailoring new fluorinated acrylic copolymers as protective coatings for marble. J Cult Herit 3(4) 309-316. doi 10.1016/S 1296-2074(02)01240-2... 

Bryant, V. M., Jr. (1986), Prehistoric diet A case for coprolite analysis, in Shafer, H. J. (ed.), Ancient Texans Rock Art and Lifeways along the Lower Pecos, San Antonio Museum Association, Texas Monthly Press, Austin, pp. 132-135. 

Oppenheimer, L., D. P. Barag, R. H. Brill, and A. V. Saldern (1970), Glass and Glassmaking in Ancient Mesopotamia, Corning Museum of Glass, Coming, NY. 

Sayre, E. V. (2000), Determination of provenance, in Williamson, R. A. and P. R. Nickens (eds.), Science and Technology in Historic Preservation, Advances in Archaeological and Museum Science, Vol. 4, Kluwer Academic, New York. 

Vemeuil A process for growing single crystals of refractory compounds. The powdered material is dropped through an oxy-hydrogen flame and the product, consisting of microscopic molten droplets, is collected on a seed crystal. As the liquid mass reaches a cooler zone it crystallizes in the form of a single crystal known as a boule. Invented by A. V. L. Vemeuil at the Museum of Natural History, Paris, who made synthetic rabies and sapphires in this way. 

Middleton, A.P. (1987) Technological investigation of the coatings on some hematite-coated pottery from Southern England. Archaeometry 29 250-261 Middleton, A.P. (1992) Ceramics Materials for all reasons. In Bowman, S. (ed.) Science and the past. British Museum Press, 16-36 Mijirtskii, A.V. Langelaar, M.H. Boerma,... 

Poisson, Theories et Symboles, 54 Cette figure se trouve en tete du Gloria mundi dans le Museum hermeticum. The rest of this page, an Explication de la planche V, provides a detailed iconographic explanation of the Philosophers Tree. 

Fig. 2.17 SQWVs of FTO electrodes modified with (a) saffron, and, (b) sample from Tibet temple immersed into 0.50 M acetic acid -I-0.50M sodium acetate aqueous buffer at pH 4.85. Potential scan initiated at —0.85 V in the positive direction potential step increment 4 mV square wave amplitude 25 mV frequency 2 Hz. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Arts...

The set of samples from a panel at the Museum of Art, Princeton University (Figure 9) have internal compositional consistencies which allow conclusions similar to those for Rouen panels. Eleven fragments from this panel were sampled and analyzed (Table V). Potassium oxide concentration was about 26%, and sodium oxide concentration was about 0.5%. This glass is completely different in composition from that... 

A more serious concern is that of corrosive depletion of the more reactive metals near the surface. Ideally, an internal drilling sample should be taken for analysis. While this is preferable to a streak sample, practical limitations are imposed by the types of objects with which we are working. We doubt if any owner or museum curator would allow us to drill into a coin. However, some museums will occasionally permit drillings to be taken from metallic art objects, and during the past year a group from Brookhaven National Laboratory (including P. Meyers and E. V. Sayre) has obtained drilling samples from silver art objects which we... 

Hole, F. Flannery, K. V. Neely, J. A. Prehistory and human ecology of the Deh Luran plain an early village sequence from Khuzistan, Iran Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1969 p 212. 

Meyer HW (2001) A review of the paleoelevation estimates from the Florissant flora, Colorado. In Fossil Flora and Stratigraphy of the Florissant Formation, Colorado. Evanoff E, Gregory-Wodzicki KM, Johnson KR (eds) Proc Denver Museum Nature Sci ser 4 no 1 p 205-216 Mosbrugger V (1999) The nearest living relative method. In Fossil Plants and Spores Modern Techniques. Jones TP, Rowe NP (eds) Geol Soc London, p 233-239... 

Smith, K. G. V. (1986). A Manual of Forensic Entomology. Oxford British Museum (Natural History) and Cornell University Press. 

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