Doping at the Science Museum: the conservation challenge of doped fabric aircraft in the Flight gallery
This article concerns the conservation of historic doped fabric aeroplanes in the static museum setting of the Science Museum’s Flight gallery. It reviews historic sources, primarily archival and scientific research papers, to examine what doped fabric aeroplanes are made from, and why these materia...
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| description | This article concerns the conservation of historic doped fabric aeroplanes in the static museum setting of the Science Museum’s Flight gallery. It reviews historic sources, primarily archival and scientific research papers, to examine what doped fabric aeroplanes are made from, and why these materials were selected.
It also discusses current conservation methods used for treating tears in the doped fabric covering of aeroplanes, and considers the ethical and practical limitations of these practices. An overview of the doped fabric aircraft collection currently held by the Science Museum is also presented. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ff900b7a11654686b007920bf29e6b832022-12-22T03:10:51ZengScience Museum, LondonScience Museum Group Journal2054-57702054-57702016-11-01610.15180/160605Doping at the Science Museum: the conservation challenge of doped fabric aircraft in the Flight galleryBen Regel0Jannicke Langfeldt1Louisa Burden2Professor Mary Ryan3Science Museum, LondonScience Museum, LondonScience Museum, LondonImperial College LondonThis article concerns the conservation of historic doped fabric aeroplanes in the static museum setting of the Science Museum’s Flight gallery. It reviews historic sources, primarily archival and scientific research papers, to examine what doped fabric aeroplanes are made from, and why these materials were selected. It also discusses current conservation methods used for treating tears in the doped fabric covering of aeroplanes, and considers the ethical and practical limitations of these practices. An overview of the doped fabric aircraft collection currently held by the Science Museum is also presented.http://journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk/browse/issue-06/doping-at-the-science-museum/doped fabrichistoric aircraft conservationdoped aircraft |
| spellingShingle | Ben Regel Jannicke Langfeldt Louisa Burden Professor Mary Ryan Doping at the Science Museum: the conservation challenge of doped fabric aircraft in the Flight gallery Science Museum Group Journal doped fabric historic aircraft conservation doped aircraft |
| title | Doping at the Science Museum: the conservation challenge of doped fabric aircraft in the Flight gallery |
| title_full | Doping at the Science Museum: the conservation challenge of doped fabric aircraft in the Flight gallery |
| title_fullStr | Doping at the Science Museum: the conservation challenge of doped fabric aircraft in the Flight gallery |
| title_full_unstemmed | Doping at the Science Museum: the conservation challenge of doped fabric aircraft in the Flight gallery |
| title_short | Doping at the Science Museum: the conservation challenge of doped fabric aircraft in the Flight gallery |
| title_sort | doping at the science museum the conservation challenge of doped fabric aircraft in the flight gallery |
| topic | doped fabric historic aircraft conservation doped aircraft |
| url | http://journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk/browse/issue-06/doping-at-the-science-museum/ |
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