Poisonous Heritage: Chemical Conservation, Monitored Collections, and the Threshold of Ethnological Museums
Many of the artifacts collected during the peak of colonization are made from organic materials and vulnerable to being eaten by insects or decomposition from mould. As part of the technical developments of the twentieth century, chemical treatments seemed to provide a viable solution to prevent dec...
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University of Leicester
2022-11-01
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| Series: | Museum & Society |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/4031 |