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Preserving Art through the Ages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Pamela B. Vandiver
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Preserving art through the ages is more than placing a designated object in a museum, properly storing and exhibiting it. Preservation involves more than preventing the destruction and looting of sites or the theft of and illicit trade in antiquities. It is more than conservation—that is, the assessment, documentation, and stabilization of an artifact's condition, and, if necessary, the skill and judgment to rescue an artifact, to intervene using a reversible treatment, and to follow with a program of monitoring stability.

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MRS Bulletin , Volume 26 , Issue 1: Preserving Art through the Ages , January 2001 , pp. 13 - 18
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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