Oddy Testing and Off-Gassing Analysis Opportunity: Contribute your list of frequently-used materials!
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) Department of Scientific Research is embarking on an Institute of Museum and Library Services funded project to evaluate a wide variety of commonly used conservation, storage, shipping, and building supplies that are readily available and used in North America. The goal is to determine the appropriateness of those materials for use near or in contact with cultural heritage objects. All results and data will be made publically available at no cost online. We are currently seeking lists of the materials used by museums, libraries, archives, private conservators, collections managers, shippers, art handlers, or anyone whose main business is the preservation, exhibition, transport, or handling of cultural heritage objects. After collating and selecting a broad range of the most widely used and promising materials, we will conduct both the Oddy test and a chemical analysis of volatiles for each material. If you are willing and interested in sharing information about materials used in your practice of preserving, displaying, storing, or shipping cultural heritage objects, please reply to Dr. Eric Breitung of The Met (contact information below). The call for materials will be ongoing throughout the project, however, the main selection of materials for testing will occur by August 2017. Those interested in contributing will be sent a basic spreadsheet where information such as make, model, supplier, and material type can be recorded. Kindly note that we will select materials for testing based on this call; even if you utilize only a handful of materials, please consider contributing. Reply to eric.breit...@metmuseum.org<mailto:eric.breit...@metmuseum.org> Thank you, Eric Breitung Research Scientist Department of Scientific Research The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY 10028 ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to consdistlist-le...@cool.conservation-us.org Archives through August 2016 at http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/ Archives from September 2016 onward at https://www.mail-archive.com/consdistlist@cool.conservation-us.org/
