Issue - meetings

To consider the Collections Care and Conservation Policy.

The Curator presented the Collections Care and Conservation Policy 2020-2025.

The policy covered both preventative conservation, to minimise damage to or deterioration of collections, and remedial conservations, to stabilise or improve the condition of collections.  

The Chairman of the Museum Society advised that they had approved the policy that morning.

In response to a Member question the Curator said that there were a number of approaches which identified which items were in need of conservation and the priority in which they were processed.

The Curator assured the Members that due to the recent moving of items from Newport to Shire Hill that a current inventory of items and their conditions had been done and that she was confident of the stable environment at Shire Hill.  The Curator added that they ensured that vulnerable items were kept close monitored.