39966
Accession Number
26016
Editor
Grimstad, Kirsten
Title Of Article Chaper
Conservation of water damaged museum and archival documents
Title Of Journal Book
ICOM Committee for Conservation, 9th triennial meeting, Dresden, German Democratic Republic, 26-31 August 1990: preprints
Pages
443-446
Collation
4 figs., 1 table
Reference Bibliography
3 refs.
Publisher
ICOM Committee for Conservation
Publisher City
Paris
ISBN
0-89236-185-9
Language Of Text
English
Language Of Summary
English
Literature Type
Monograph : Proceedings
Literature Level
Analytic
Meeting
ICOM Committee for Conservation. Meeting
Abstract
The conservation department of the National Library of Austria supported a conservation project of water-damaged paper, parchment, and photographic documents from the Tiroler Landesmuseum. The items were damaged as a result of a flood in 1985. The material was immediately deep frozen and placed in a cold storage facility. The National Library supported the conservation of the items by freeze-drying, using a freeze-drying chamber which is part of its mass conservation equipment, originally developed for the treatment of embrittled newsprint. In a three-year working period the 40 m<sup>3</sup> of damaged documents were freeze-dried with satisfactory results. The technical parameters of the drying operation are described. -- AATA
Keywords
water damage; Austria; paper; parchment; flood; photographs; cold storage; freeze-drying -- AATA
pub_id
39966