Mold

[Faith]

 

I have some items that have been isolated from the collection which may have mold on them. They are currently stored in a room separate from storage in plastic or plastic containers. I need to know what steps I can take to determine if mold is present. If  mold is present, then I need to know how to stabilize the pieces.

 

Thanks

 

[Marcia Anderson]

Faith:

C2C has some excellent info about identifying and addressing issues of mold in the Webinar Archives .  It is my limited understanding that active mold should be frozen (depending on the artifact), and inactive mold can possibly be vacuumed with a HEPA unit … professional advice  is available from the links below.  Hope this helps.

http://www.artcons.udel.edu/masters Univ Deleware Photo Conservation

http://www.conservation-us.org/

http://www.nedcc.org/contact/staff.php

http://www.si.edu/mci/index.html#   Smithsonian Conservation Department

http://art-support.com/careofphotos2.htm

 

[Faith]

Thank you.

 

Faith

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