Hi Dee, That's a very interesting and big project! We work together with coldstores when we don't have enough space in our own freezer. It's a cheaper option here than use freezer truck/containers and it works very well!
Good luck! Loes Loes Knoop Senior consultant IPM [email protected] Helicon conservation support Netherlands Op woensdag 9 september 2020 om 16:35:29 UTC+2 schreef dee.stubbs-lee: > The New Brunswick Museum has acquired a very large collection of over 400 > mounted mammals. Some are very large species. About 60% are head and > shoulder mounts, the other 40% are full body taxidermy mounts. Some have > some associated diorama materials. > > > > These will be coming to us from an off-site, non-museum out of town > location, where I am told they are densely stored in about a 1700 square > foot space on private property. I have not seen this collection in person, > only from photos. I am they need to be moved to the museum’s collections > storage imminently, possibly within a few weeks and with as short as > possible a processing turnaround time. The space that is being considered > for housing them is the museum’s current preparation workshop, which is > about 1780 square feet. We are no longer able to use this room for > preparation work (wood working, painting, etc.) due to ventilation not > meeting current health and safety guidelines. The workshop has direct > access to a freight elevator and to an exterior single size door. It has a > concrete floor and is located on the museum’s basement level. The adjacent > collections storage rooms house our most pest-vulnerable collections: > textiles and ethnographic collections. This workshop room is located > directly below the conservation lab and loading bay. > > > > We have a small walk in freezer for IPM that is used by all museum > departments, but this is not adequate to process this large acquisition, > and many of the mounts may not physically fit in any case. The curator in > charge of the project would like to avoid hiring freezer trucks, and > prefers fumigation. > > > > These mounts are from within the last 50 years or so, so I am hoping that > arsenic and related hazards may be less of an issue than with older > mounts, although I worry about health and safety aspects of fumigating on > site, especially as my office is immediately above this space. > > > > In addition to my pest related concerns (mainly protecting our other > collections), I have been told that some of the mounts have visible mold > growth as well as a musty odour, so these are challenging on many fronts > > > > I am looking for advice on freezing vs fumigation (onsite or off site) vs > inspection and HEPA vacuuming only, and for dealing with this on an > extremely tight time frame and with extremely limited resources. I have > never dealt with an IPM project of comparable size and scope before, so all > advice is appreciated! > > > > Dee > > > > *Dee A. Stubbs-Lee, MA, CAPC* > > *Conservator / Restauratrice* > > *New Brunswick Museum* > > *277 Douglas Avenue* > > *Saint John, New Brunswick* > > *E2K 1E5* > > *Canada* > > > > *(506) 643-2341 <(506)%20643-2341>* > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MuseumPests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/3b12db6f-9e2c-434a-97db-5dfd1f9a309cn%40googlegroups.com.
