Resources for Collection Care

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Protect the Items Entrusted to Your Care

Explore trusted resources to help you care for art, artifacts, archives, and the things that matter to you and your community. Assessing your buildings, caring for items, displaying and storing them properly, conservation consultations, and preparedness efforts are all part of collections and preventive care. Our Connecting to Collections Care community is a great place to begin your learning journey, as are the many resources below.

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C2C Care

Connecting to Collections Care (C2C Care) connects staff and volunteers at museums, archives, and libraries with each other and with reliable information about collections care.

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Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP)

Small- to mid-sized museums looking to improve collections care may be interested in exploring a general conservation assessment with the assistance of the Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) program. 

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Collections Care Courses

Browse and register for live and on-demand courses on topics like collections management, collections storage, audiovisual collections, and more.

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AIC Wiki

The AIC Wiki includes vast information about collection care, with sections focusing on preventive care, environmental guidelines, best practices for exhibitions, choosing materials for storage, exhibition, and transport, housing design and mountmaking, and emergency preparedness and response. 

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Collection Care Information Exchange Discussion Framework

Our Preventive Care Network developed a framework that institutions and collection managers, conservators, registrars, curators, administrators, other staff responsible for collections may use to guide discussions about collection care practices, policies, and procedures.

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Collection Storage

Learn about some key collection storage resources, include the interactive website Storage Techniques for Art, Science, and History Collections (STASH), which allows you to explore solutions for storage and support of cultural heritage based on the book, Storage of Natural History Collections: Ideas and Practical Solutions, and the jointly-published book Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage.

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