Courses we recommend:
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MS202: Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture Course Description & Info Instructor: Lori Benson Student Login Price: $475 May 5 – May 30, 2014 [Learn More]
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MS226: Care of Furniture and Wood Artifacts Course Description & Info Instructor: Diana Komejan Student Login Price: $475 June 2 – June 27, 2014 [Learn More]
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Links to related information on other sites:
Biological Deterioration & Damage to Furniture & Wooden Objects
http://www.si.edu/mci/english/learn_more/taking_care/biodetwood.html
Wood Anatomy and Identification Class of 1998
http://www.si.edu/mci/english/professional_development/past_courses_programs/programs/wood1999.html
Wood Anatomy and Identification – Bibliography
http://www.si.edu/mci/downloads/bibliographies/wood_anatomy_bibliography.pdf
Fundamental Construction Techniques for Furniture & Wooden Objects
http://www.si.edu/mci/english/learn_more/taking_care/fundconst.html
Furniture Care & Handling
http://www.si.edu/mci/downloads/articles/furnbook.pdf
Guidelines for taking Wood Samples from Objects of Antiquity
http://www.si.edu/mci/english/learn_more/taking_care/woodsamples.html
Moving, Packing, and Shipping Furniture
http://www.si.edu/mci/english/learn_more/taking_care/movefurn.html
What is furniture conservation?
Furniture Conservation Training Program (Smithsonian Institution)
http://www.si.edu/mci/downloads/bibliographies/fctpmrl.pdf
A Closer Look Santos from Puerto Rico (essay on painted wood sculpture for lay person, explaining conservation and preservation thought and technique)
http://www.si.edu/mci/downloads/reports/Closer_Look_Santos_Puerto_Rico.pdf
Totem Poles Royal British Columbia Museum
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Content_Files/Files/TotemPoles.pdf
The Care and Preservation of Furniture and Wooden Objects
http://www.thehenryford.org/explore/artifacts/furniture.asp
Woodworker removes furniture’s history, layer by layer
http://members.tripod.com/woodenobject/news8.htm
John Kjelland web page with Adobe Acrobat document: Conservator of Wooden Objects
http://members.tripod.com/woodenobject/
Yellowstone National Park conservation project, John Kjelland (Adobe Acrobat file – 1 Mb)
http://members.tripod.com/woodenobject/AICMap.pdf
A LATE BRONZE AGE SICKLE FROM SHINEWATER PARK: THE TREATMENT OF A WATERLOGGED COMPOSITE
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/jcms/ issue4/brysb.html
Caring for Furniture
http://aic.stanford.edu/ treasure/furn.html
AIC Think Tank on Wood Consolidation
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/wn/ wn07/wn07-1/wn07-106.html
The Care and Preservation of Clocks
http://www.thehenryford.org/explore/artifacts/clocks.asp
Arctic Kayaks
http://www.arctickayaks.com/
Cleaning Wood Furniture (Conserve-O-Gram 7/1) – (An Adobe PDF file)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/ conserveogram/07-01.pdf
Waxing Furniture and Wooden Objects (Conserve-O-Gram 7/2) – (An Adobe PDF file)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/ conserveogram/07-02.pdf
Protecting Wood with Preservatives and Water Repellants (Conserve-O-Gram 7/3) – (An Adobe PDF file)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/ conserveogram/07-03.pdf
Upholstered Furniture: Agents of Deterioration (Conserve-O-Gram 7/4) – (An Adobe PDF file)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/ conserveogram/07-04.pdf
Dusting Wooden Objects (Conserve-O-Gram 7/5) – (An Adobe PDF file)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/ conserveogram/07-05.pdf
Silicone in Furniture Waxes and Polishes (Conserve-O-Gram 7/6) – (An Adobe PDF file)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/ conserveogram/07-06.pdf
Emergency Treatment for Water-Soaked Furniture and Wooden Objects (Conserve-O-Gram 7/7) – (An Adobe PDF file)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/ conserveogram/07-07.pdf