PREVENTATIVE CONSERVATION PROGRAM The Conservation Department supports the Museum's research, exhibition, and repatriation-related initiatives to ensure long-term preservation of and safe access to the collections, in collaboration with other departments of the Museum. Some preventive conservation and monitoring activities are noted below: 1. Consistent environmental monitoring for temperature, relative humidity, and light levels in storage, exhibit, and work-processing areas. 2. Implementing an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program throughout the building in public, staff, and collection storage and exhibit areas. 3. Developing policies and guidelines for the safe handling, exhibition, storage, and research use of object, paper, and photographic collection materials. 4. Sponsoring collections care training seminars and workshops. 5. Consulting on hazard reduction in the Museum as part of emergency preparedness planning. For further information on disaster planning, consult: Conservation On-Line http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/disasters/ HU Libraries Preservation http://preserve.harvard.edu/resources/
	Additional sites and references to consult on collections care: American Institute for Conservation (AIC) 1717 K Street NW, Washington DC 20006 Phone: 202/452-9545 E-mail: InfoAIC@aol.com http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/aic/ Conservation OnLine http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/ Bachmann, Konstanze, ed. 1992. Conservation Concerns. A Guide for Collectors and Curators, New York: Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution Press. Michalski, S. 1992. A Systematic Approach to the Conservation (Care) of Museum Collections. Ottawa: Canadian Conservation Institute. Rose, Carolyn L., Catherine A. Hawks, Hugh H. Genoways. 1995. Storage of Natural History Collections: A Preventive Conservation Approach, Volume I. Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. Roy, Ashok and Perry Smith, eds. 1994. Preventive Conservation: Practice, Theory, and Research. Preprints of the Contributions to the Ottawa Congress, 12--16 September 1994. London: International Institute for Conservation. de Torres, Amparo, ed. 1990. Collections Care: A Basic Reference Shelflist. Washington, D.C. National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property.
	Micmac Coat (19th century) prepared for a loan exhibition (#94-15-10/50793) Click on image to see it larger. All material copyright © 1998 President and Fellows of Harvard College, all rights reserved Programs and Services | Preventative Conservation | Research and Treatment Departments | Peabody Museum http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/conservation/