If your exhibit cases are made of wood, painted or unpainted, place Mylar under items on display. Mylar creates a barrier from the acids in the wood. Make sure there is filtered air flow through these cases, too, in order to avoid a build up of acidic fumes.

When constructing new exhibits, consider constructing cases out of inert materials, such as Plexiglas and metal.

Books and products we recommend:

Vol.1 No.4
Indoor Generated Pollutants

$5.00

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Silica Gel by Raymond H. Lafontaine provides information on the use of silica gel, how it controls RH, and how it is conditioned for use and maintained. Specific topics dealt with include: the problems of display case leakage, how silica gel fulfills the requirements of a humidity buffering agent, and the maintenance of a silica gel buffered display case.

Silica Gel

$10.00

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Security Hardware and Security System Planning for Museums by Wayne Kelly helps cultural institutions with their preparations against threats of theft and vandalism. Numerous, inexpensive methods of improving security and various types of currently available sensors and computerized alarm systems are illustrated and described. Several kinds of sensors and their placement within a standardized level of protection proposed for each area in a cultural facility are also recommended.

Security Hardware & Security System Planning

$14.00

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Links to related information on other sites:

1.12 Air Pollution Control Within Museum Display Cases by Active and Passive Sorbent Strategies.
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/science/abstracts/1.12.html

1.18 Development of a Hermetically Sealed Nitrogen Atmosphere Display Case
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/science/abstracts/1.18.html

1.22 Moisture Buffering Capability of Museum Storage Cases.
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/science/abstracts/1.22.html