Storage facilities need to be this to be controlled to suit the categories of collections stored there?
What is environmental conditions?
100
Most damage to a museum collection comes from?
What is careless handling and transport, or poor storage?
100
Who should carry out remedial conservation on museum collections?
What is experienced and professionally trained conservators?
100
What should be in your disaster boxes?
What is protective clothing, emergency equipment, cleaning and packing equipment, storage containers, and damage recording supplies?
100
True or false display cases by themselves provide complete security no matter what they are made of?
What is False?
*explain why*
200
Electronic media should be kept away from?
What is electro-magnetic radiation?
200
What is step 4 in handling, moving and packing objects?
What is Protect the object?
200
The process involved in repairing damage to collections using specialist conservation techniques that are reversible is called?
What is Remedial Conservation?
200
Collections and staff and visitors should all be under____?
What is insurance?
200
Name the two senors that are a part of the electronic detection systems.
What is Passive infra-red sensors and Activity-detection sensors?
300
Fill in the blank for storing large and heavy items; Secure building, Appropriate environment, Documentation of stored collections, Handling systems and procedures, _________, Good physical access.
What is Regular conservation assessment?
300
When an object is being transported a red label with these sayings should be placed on it?
What is FRAGILE/THIS WAY UP?
300
The key element in practicing remedial conservation is?
What is skill?
300
Items like equipment and furniture should be listed together on?
What is a register?
* with a record of their purchase value
300
Name one duty of the security staff? *Think Night at the Museum*
What is Checking displays? *more answers on page 284*
400
A collections composed of shells, grass, and feathers would fall under what category of collections?
What is Ethnographic collections?
400
Handling or moving artifacts or specimens of any and all types should be kept to this amount?
What is minimum?
400
What should you do if your museum does not employ conservation staff?
What is relying on the reviews of experienced conservators from colleagues or other museums. Then hire them :D
400
Disaster teams should be briefed and trained on layout of he museum building, knowing fire exits, fire extinguishers, and disaster boxes. On any of the tours our class took did you notice these things, if so how accessible/visible were they?
*answers vary*
400
Clear security procedures for staff should be found in?
What is the museum's procedure manual?
500
High-quality, well-organized, and well-managed storage enhances the museum's overall efficiency; with your own museums give examples.
What is everyone's examples?
500
When writing in the vicinity of artifacts you should use this utensil?
What is a pencil?
500
What is the difference between conservation and restoration?
Conservation seeks to halt deterioration whereas restoration aims bring the object back to as near as original as possible.
500
Should your museum have a disaster plan?
What is YES!
500
True or False: Using different sizes and types of screwheads would increase security?