Preservation of Plastic Artefacts in Museum Collections

Download or read book Preservation of Plastic Artefacts in Museum Collections written by B. Lavédrine (ed.) and published by Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques - CTHS. This book was released on 2012 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is created for the conservation community interested in the preservation of art and design works that happen to be made out of a wide variety of plastic formulations. It gathers a bulk of knowledge that is a record of the latest conservation science and technology as applied to plastic works of art, gained during the POPART project - the Preservation Of Plastic ARTefacts in museum collections: a forty two-month international research project part-funded by the European Commission.