Conservation of Cultural Heritage Key Principles and Approaches

This textbook aims to provide a broad overview of museum conservation and preservation, ranging across both more traditional approaches to art and archaeological artefacts, and more modern ethical and philosophical concerns relating to the conservation and preservation of anthropological collections, and the material culture of indigenous ...

Conservation of Cultural Heritage covers the methods and practices needed for future museum professionals who will be working in various capacities with museum collections and artifacts. It also assists current professionals in understanding the complex decision-making processes that face conservators on a daily basis. The uniqueness of this book lies in correlating the aspects of material science and the behaviour of artifacts in a museum environment. It will be of special benefit to museum professionals not trained in conservation.

Covering a broad range of topics that are key to sound conservation in the museum, Conservation of Cultural Heritage is an important tool for students and professionals alike in ensuring that best practice is followed in the preservation of important collections.