Here you can find recommended resources that support requirement 6.2 of the UK Museum Accreditation Scheme: A collections care and conservation plan.
‘Your museum must have a plan to maintain and, where possible, improve the way you care for and conserve your collections.
This plan may be a separate collections care and conservation plan, part of an overall collections management framework or in your forward or business plan.’
(Accreditation standard, November 2018)
This advice sheet defines the concept of environmental monitoring in museums and explains why it is important. It illustrates the importance of making notes and keeping records as an investment in future planning.
ICON, the Institute of Conservation, is the lead voice for the conservation of cultural heritage in the UK. It provides the recognised source for finding professionally qualified conservator-restorers in the UK and Ireland: Conservation Register at ICON.
This guide provides a practical foundation to understanding ‘preventive’ and ‘interventive’ conservation of collections. It highlights the decay mechanisms affecting objects in museums and explains how to monitor them and what to do to make sure that objects have as long a life as possible.
This resource provides an introduction to environmental monitoring and outlines how to identify your museum’s environmental requirements.
This model plan from South Western Federation of Museums and Galleries has been developed to guide museums through the process of developing a collections care and conservation plan.