Hi all, Apologies for any cross posting.
I am a history curator at Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums and currently studying for a distance learning MA in Preventive Conservation at Northumbria University. At the museum we are currently involved in a large -scale move of our collections to a new store in the city. Our pharmacy collection, which numbers over 1200 glass and around 200 ceramic containers, needs to be moved as part of this. While planning the move I found it quite difficult to find comprehensive advice and guidance readily available on this subject. As a result my research project is based on pharmaceutical collections in heritage institutions, primarily exploring how these are stored and packed for transit. I am particularly interested in how glass and ceramic objects that still contain their original contents are stored and transported as we have a great many of these in the collection. While the survey is aimed at those with pharmaceutical collections, input from those with similar objects with significant contents would be much appreciated, for example wet specimens in natural history collections, or foodstuffs still in their packaging. If you could pass this onto any relevant colleagues I would be extremely grateful. This survey should take around 5 minutes to complete and is anonymous, but if you would like to get in contact with more information please get in touch at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/H5Z6FC2 Thanks in advance for any help you can give. Kind regards, Jenny Pape Curator (History) Museums and Galleries Education & Children's Services Aberdeen City Council Aberdeen Maritime Museum Shiprow, Aberdeen AB11 5BY 01224 337718 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail (including any attachment to it) is confidential, protected by copyright and may be privileged. The information contained in it should be used for its intended purposes only. If you receive this email in error, notify the sender by reply email, delete the received email and do not make use of, disclose or copy it. Whilst we take reasonable precautions to ensure that our emails are free from viruses, we cannot be responsible for any viruses transmitted with this email and recommend that you subject any incoming email to your own virus checking procedures. Unless related to Council business, the opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and they do not necessarily constitute those of Aberdeen City Council. Unless we expressly say otherwise in this email or its attachments, neither this email nor its attachments create, form part of or vary any contractual or unilateral obligation. Aberdeen City Council's incoming and outgoing email is subjec t to regular monitoring. ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
