I would pack the whole thing and send it to a
commercial freezer for a couple of weeks. AmeriCold
is in Denver and is familiar with mass museum
freezings. Whatever you do, don't "bomb" your
museum. The chemicals will do nothing to the
insects, but will damage your collection and your
health.
Christina M. Cain
Anthropology Collections Manager
CU Museum of Natural History
UCB 218, Boulder, CO 80309
303-492-2198
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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:51:09 -0600
From: "Linda Moore" <[email protected]>
Subject: [pestlist] Moving Clean
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>I am the Collections Curator at the Fort Collins
Museum & Discovery
>Science Center, where we are in the planning
stage of a big move to a
>newly built building. Our collections, which
include a large clothing
>and textile collection, appear pretty clean right
now as far as pests
>go, but a history of carpet beetle infestations
makes me wary of moving
>old problems to this new facility. I am trying to
plan the most
>effective yet feasible method for insuring that
we don't move pests with
>our collections. What's best? Spot checking and
only addressing
>problems as they appear? Freezing everything?
Having our pest
>management company bomb our current collections
storage?
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>If you have moved recently and dealt with this
issue I'd love to get
>your advice!
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>“Three things in human life are important: the
first is to be kind;
>the second is to be kind; and the third is to be
kind." Henry James
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>Linda Moore
>Collections Curator
>Fort Collins Museum
>(970) 416-2784
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