Hi Linda, (I sent this message earlier but it appears to have been garbled, apologies if this is a duplicate!)
As a precautionary measure here at NMAI we froze nearly all of our organic collections when we moved our collection into a new clean building, even though there were no obvious signs of active infestation. This was successful and 5 years later we are glad that we did this. There is a description of what we did on the museumpests.net site in the case studies section of the treatment page http://www.museumpests.net/newpage/treatment.asp You might want to take a look at these articles also in the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation (JAIC): DOES LOW-TEMPERATURE PEST MANAGEMENT CAUSE DAMAGE? LITERATURE REVIEW AND OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF ETHNOGRAPHIC ARTIFACTS http://cool.conservation-us.org/coolaic/jaic/articles/jaic42-02-002_6.html INTEGRATING PREVENTIVE CONSERVATION INTO A COLLECTIONS MOVE AND REHOUSING PROJECT AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN http://cool.conservation-us.org/coolaic/jaic/articles/jaic44-03-006_4.html Feel free to contact me also if you have any questions! Emily Emily Kaplan Conservator Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Cultural Resources Center Suitland, MD 20746 tel 301-238-1418 fax 301-238-3201 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Linda Moore Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [pestlist] Moving Clean This is a message from the Pest Management Database List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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? If you have moved recently and dealt with this issue I'd love to get your advice! “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 Linda Moore Collections Curator Fort Collins Museum (970) 416-2784 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > >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? > >If you have moved recently and dealt with this issue I'd love to get >your advice! > >“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 > >Linda Moore >Collections Curator >Fort Collins Museum >(970) 416-2784 >[email protected] >------------------------------------------------------------- >To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] > >To unsubscribe from this list send an email to >[email protected] and in the body put: >"unsubscribe pestlist" >Any problems email [email protected] > > > > > >
